This new and expanded edition of Dragon in the Tropics-the widely acclaimed account of how president Hugo Chávez (19992013) revamped Venezuela’s political economy-examines the electoral decline of Chavismo after Chavez’s death and the policies adopted by his successor, Nicolás Maduro, to cope with the economic chaos inherited from previous radical populist policies. Corrales and Penfold argue that Maduro has had to struggle with the inherent contradictions of a large and heteroge...

Understanding the Basics of a New Testament church. Truth is always under attack. The closing years of the 20th century and early years of this century have seen an unprecedented attack on the character of the local church. Michael Penfold has addressed not only the nature of the attacks but the Biblical basis for these practices.