Venezuela, a country located in South America, has suffered many years of mismanagement due to the corrupt influence of its former leaders. As a result, the country is currently pressing to resuscitate itself back to its former glory. The poor economic state, abuse of human rights, and fraud in the electoral system, are some of the major results of the corrupt influence of absolute power. Venezuela's history of dictatorial leadership has negatively affected it's economic, social, and political success. The dictatorial power in Venezuela has had a negative impact on the country's economic success. Marcos Perez Jiménez, a former president of Venezuela, is infamous for his flatulent economic acts. Venezuela was striving economically by the time that President Jimenez came into power in 1952. Venezuela's economic success, at the time, can be greatly credited to the fact that the country had previously discovered rich oil resources, which allowed them to have fourth highest Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the world ("Economy Tables-Statistics Venezuela"). With newfound wealth, Jimenez implicated numerous grandiose projects that put a strained on the country's wealth ("Marcos Perez Jimenez"). Not only did he strain the country's wealth, but he also embezzled immense sums of the money from the country's treasury, which he eventually used to create a life of luxury for himself. The amount embezzled was recapitulated to be around $250 million (Rohter). The absolute power that Jimenez practiced permitted him to avoid punishment for his greedy and corrupt usage of Venezuela's newfound wealth. As an absolute power in the country, he is solely responsible for the social, economic and political welfare of his state; this is a significant task for one person to successfully manage. The inefficiency in managing the economic aspects of the country originates from the fact that he was not capable of managing all of the state's affairs by his lonesome. Hugo Chavez, the recently deceased president of Venezuela, was praised as the "champion for the poor , because of his many social programs that were created to equalize the distribution of oil wealth within the nation. These programs included: "state-run food markets, cash benefits for poor families, free health clinics and education programs  (Naureckas), he also evened out the income distribution in Venezuela (Plummer). In spite of this progress President Chavez made i