Hello, @owasco. Venezuela and Nigeria are countries that, to begin with, belong to different continents. America and Africa. Then, as @saminiator points out, they were colonized by dissimilar powers: Spain and England. The processes have been quite different: the economic-political independence of Venezuela occurred at the beginning of the 19th century, which does not mean that it has been a completely beneficial process. After achieving its definitive democracy in 1958 (before they had been dictatorships of different kinds), Venezuela advanced very well, until a tyrannical communist group was conquered in political power, against which not only the great Venezuelan majority fights, but also a large part of the international community. I don't know if my succinct comment responds to your concern. Greetings.
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Thank you for your thoughtful and informative response. As an American, I don't think of Spain and England as dissimilar powers, and if I am not mistaken, the countries were colonized at roughly the same time. Did Nigeria have a few good decades at the same time Venezuela did? I don't think @samminator has brought us up to date yet. I wonder though if the same power hasn't been at work, with different faces, on both continents.