*Bram Ebus is a research journalist mainly reporting from Colombia and Venezuela. He is a social scientist with degrees in Cultural Anthropology and Global Criminology. Since 2012 he has carried out in-depth fieldwork involving qualitative and quantitative research in several countries in Latin America and Europe. His main research interest is on socio-environmental conflicts.
Venezuela's historic meltdown is often explained as a consequence of bad governance, corruption and the collapse of the oil sector or of international sanctions. Solutions are sought in the political sphere—dialogue, free elections, regime change—but there is little...