Consumer Warning ! While this article contains some interesting statistics, the author is an academic leftist who has authored a pre-collapse book about Venezulea that didn't ag so well lol....

From an Amazon reviewer of his books:

1.0 out of 5 stars Western propagandist defends slavery of Latin Americans because dictator likes red

Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2019

Another ivory tower academic defending the miserable dictatorship that keeps my people enslaved. Because we are all little puppets for his revolutionary fantasy who couldn't possibly be opposed to a Stalinist boot on our face forever and economic ruin from insane Marxist policies unless paid by the CIA. Standard propaganda. I suppose writing this garbage makes him feel like a big revolutionary.