And explains why money really can buy you happiness.

Opening the border may relieve shortages, but not prices.

Inflation roars while the country runs out of food and other necessities

The country’s reeling economy has led many to go hungry

Another sign of the resource curse: following the country's state of emergency declaration, conditions worsen.

Some oil-producing nations are in dire financial condition because of low oil prices

A strong currency pushed up by oil exports, and national price controls, have marginalized once strong economic sectors

The socialist president used oil revenue to buy support for his regime and now the country is suffering for it

Gas is so cheap that it can be sold at a profit in neighboring Colombia.

A history of the Latin American country's resource curse.