Dossier
state erosion
Coverage of state erosion in the Nexus archive.
- ‘There will have to be a reckoning’: Venezuela’s natural disaster meets a collapsing infrastructure
Venezuela's earthquake is described as both a natural disaster and a political-institutional crisis, with experts pointing to decades of state erosion, corruption, and economic mismanagement. The interim government faces scrutiny for its response, but the article attributes the systemic failure to 27 years of institutional decline.