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In December 1922, the "Barroso No. 2" well exploded, changing the Western Hemisphere forever. Today, as the world watches the 2026 US intervention in Venezuela, we have to ask: how did the world’s most oil-rich nation lose everything?

This is the story of the "Resource Curse"—the paradox where a nation’s greatest strength becomes its ultimate undoing. From the black rain of 1922 to the dying farmlands of today, we explore the history of a collapse that was a century in the making.

Sources:
Barroso II oil blowout and Venezuela’s early oil history — Wikipedia: Barroso II
The Barroso No.2 gusher and its role in transforming the Venezuelan oil industry — AAPG Explorer article “One Hundred Years of a Lost Blowout”
History of the Venezuelan oil industry, including the 1922 blowout — Wikipedia: History of the Venezuelan Oil Industry

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