Rampant corruption in Venezuela’s national oil company weighs down the economy

 

Venezuela’s former oil minister Tareck El Aissami (left) and President Nicolás Maduro during a 2018 tour of a baseball stadium under construction in Caracas.RICARDO MAZALAN (AP)

Rampant corruption in Venezuela’s national oil company weighs down the economy

In the 1990s, PDVSA was a model state enterprise, but its politicization has become an albatross around the country’s neck

FLORANTONIA SINGER

Caracas - MAR 23, 2023