VENEZUELAN EXPERIMENT FREEBIE CULTURE LEADS TO POVERTY SARASIJ MAJUMDER IMAGE SHARED AT LEFT IS OF VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT NICOLAS MADURO - A COMMUNIST WHO RUINED HIS COUNTRY’S ECONOMY. Venezuela, home to the world’s one of the world’s largest oil reserves, is a case study in how to ruin a petrostate. The State’s run to Solvency started in 1920, when Oil was discovered here in large quantity. Soon it became a prosperous PETRO--STATE. PETRO STATE:- Petrostate is a term used to describe a country with several interrelated attributes: Top of Form Bottom of Form government income is deeply reliant on the production and export of oil and natural gas, economic and political power are highly concentrated in an elite minority, and political institutions are weak and unaccountable, and corruption is widespread. Countries often described as petrostates include Algeria, Cameroon, Chad, Ecuador, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Li...