"Venezuela and Sudan collapsed under similar logic"
Not so in the case of Venezuela, which has been a united country since Independence in 1824 and with democratic government from 1958 until the election of Hugo Chavez in 1998. Venezuela has never had separate communities with identities that supersede the national identity. There has never been a separatist movement in Venezuela since the end of the warlord era in 1905 and the unification of the country under Cipriano Castro and his successor Juan Vicente Gomez.
This is unlike Lebanon, Syria, Iraq where separate communities of Sunni, Shiite, Druze, Kurds have less allegiance to the country that their own grouping.
"Venezuela and Sudan collapsed under similar logic"
Not so in the case of Venezuela, which has been a united country since Independence in 1824 and with democratic government from 1958 until the election of Hugo Chavez in 1998. Venezuela has never had separate communities with identities that supersede the national identity. There has never been a separatist movement in Venezuela since the end of the warlord era in 1905 and the unification of the country under Cipriano Castro and his successor Juan Vicente Gomez.
This is unlike Lebanon, Syria, Iraq where separate communities of Sunni, Shiite, Druze, Kurds have less allegiance to the country that their own grouping.