The Guayana project is a largely state-owned complex of linked megaprojects that capitalize on easy access to international shipping routes and Venezuela’s significant domestic demand for power and construction materials

the CVG has owned and operated at least six dozen businesses and industries in the city, employed upwards of 40,000 workers, and been the beneficiary of public investments at levels and through mechanisms that have become impossible to account. Industry-specific investments, likely totaling well over 35 billion dollars




Thus, this project, designed to integrate a resource frontier into national territory, has ended up creating its own “backwater,” replicating the international core-periphery relationship and the coast-interior relationship within the Guayana Region