Author: Rebecca Hanson | Journal of Democracy

Rebecca Hanson is associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology and Law and the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida.

What Venezuela’s Twin Earthquakes Exposed

Maryhen Jiménez
Rebecca Hanson
Benedicte Bull
Verónica Zubillaga

From state officials taking selfies amid the rubble to soldiers looting, Venezuela’s earthquake response reveals why corrupt authoritarian governments fail so badly when disasters strike.