Historical, political and economic links between Colombia and Venezuela have been strong. After economic integration policies that dominated state affairs in the early sixties, the degree of social and economic interaction, especially in the border region of Santander and Tachira strengthened....

This paper attempts a review of the emerging literature that accounts about the failure of one of the most striking macroeconomic reforms in the southern tip of the Latin American continent. Enquiries about the faster response of this crisis in Brazil and the whys in Argentina, the recuperation...