George Philip is professor and reader in Latin American politics at the London School of Economics. He is the author of Democracy in Latin America: Surviving Conflict and Crisis? (Polity, 2003)

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Venezuela's oil-dependent economy faces an intensification of already tough conditions. But how far does the brutal logic that traps it extend to the country's president, asks George Philip.

The Venezuelan president’s status as Latin America’s leading radical icon is intimately tied to the price of oil, says George Philip.

The global oil-price boom is fuelling Hugo Chàvez's domestic political project – a modern twist on a familiar Venezuelan pattern, says George Philip.