Les distorsions des politiques d’alimentation de la « révolution bolivarienne »

Abstract

Using several types of data, this article analyzes some of the Venezuelan government’s policies with relation to food production, marketing, distribution, and supply. It aims at showing their impact on citizens’ daily lives and at establishing a link between these public policies and local food supply practices, such as the way people experience such a severe shortage. Examining empirical data from direct observations in 2017 and 2018 in Guatire, a suburb of Caracas, as well as economic measures from the last two decades (1999-2018), provides a basis to analyze the effects of the Venezuelan state’s failing public policies, the difficulties encountered to govern through the crisis, and their impact on the population.

Keywords

• corruption
• food supply
• food crisis
• oil economy
• Venezuela