Former ambassador blames "overdependence on oil” for Venezuela’s instability
Canada’s former ambassador to Venezuela blamed the country’s “overdependence on oil” as the root of its instability, saying that most nations that “depend heavily on oil tend to be dictatorships.”
Canada’s former ambassador to Venezuela blamed the country’s “overdependence on oil” as the root of its instability, saying that most nations that “depend heavily on oil tend to be dictatorships.”
Ben Rowswell, who served as Canada’s Ambassador to Venezuela from 2014 to 2017, told CBC during a recent interview that oil was a “bad product to bas…



