Energy law in Venezuela: constitutional and legal framework Henry Jiménez Guanipa

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to address the study
regulations of Energy Law in Venezuela in a
historical perspective, with the purpose of responding to the
question about, how and why this country endowed with
immense natural energy resources such as: oil, gas
natural, coal, hydropower, goes through one of the most severe
energy crises you have ever known, characterized by
an inoperative and corrupt Oil Industry, and a System
Electrical collapsed, which is not capable of maintaining service
constant electricity due to lack of available capacity, but with
ample installed capacity. In this sense, the analysis
offers in a First and Second Part, a vision of the
property systems, the evolution, construction and
conceptualization of important elements, sources and
principles that have been forging an Energy Law, which
in some way it is the reflection of the same evolution of the
Venezuelan society between the end of the 19th century, the 20th century and
beginning of the 21st century. In Part Three, a
constitutional approach of a country that has been forced to
modify its legal architecture to adapt to the
circumstantial ideological precepts of those who have
governed, very marked in the last 15 years, in which
practically the entire constitutional establishment that supports the
basic principles of the rule of law have been dismantled,
through the imposition of new paradigms that have
led the country into a spiral of unprecedented failures in its history
that place it on the verge of the worst omens. In the fourth
Part of the analysis focuses on the normative relationship between
energy, environment and human rights
incorporating the problem of climate change in the study.