Original sentence: A number of failed economic policies and increasing corruption in government and society at large, has led to rising poverty and crime and worsening social indicators and increasing political instability, resulting in three major coup attempts, two in 1992 and another in 2002.As the government devalued the currency in order to face its mounting local and external financial obligations, Venezuelans' real standard of living fell dramatically.Since coming to power, Chavez has attracted no less controversy through his reforms of the Constitution and the implementation of his Bolivarian Revolution, creating a period of political polarization in Venezuela.The collapse of oil prices in the 1980s, and the huge public spending and accumulation of internal and external debts by the government and private sector during the Petrodollar years of the 1970s and early 80s, crippled the Venezuelan economy.The current president Hugo Chávez, who led the first unsuccesful coup in 1992, was elected precisely as a reaction against the established political parties and the corruption and inequalities their policies created
Edited sentence: The collapse of oil prices in the 1980s crippled the Venezuelan economy; together with rising poverty and worsening social indicators, this led to increasing political instability, resulting in three major coup attempts, two in 1992 and another in 2002.The tenure of current president Hugo Chávez attracted no less controversy, as it accompanied a period of political polarization in Venezuela.Venezuela continues to enact a program of wide-ranging socialist reforms while emphasizing the nation's future as a part of a more integrated Latin America