Miguel Tinker Salas: 2 books
The Enduring Legacy
Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2009
Oil has played a major role in Venezuela’s economy since the first gusher was discovered along Lake Maracaibo in 1922. As Miguel Tinker Salas demonstrates, oil has also transformed the country’s social, cultural, and political landscapes. In The Enduring Legacy, Tinker Salas traces the history...
Venezuela
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Among the top ten oil exporters in the world and a founding member of OPEC, Venezuela currently supplies 11 percent of U.S. crude oil imports. But when the country elected the fiery populist politician Hugo Chavez in 1998, tensions rose with this key trading partner and relations have been strained...