EP62: Putting Venezuela in Perspective

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EP62: Putting Venezuela in Perspective

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This episode is ALL about what’s going on in Venezuela.

We talk about the what we think the reason is for the bad economy.
We talk about what the USA should do, if anything.
We talk about keeping the Venezuelan government’s actions in perspective.

Its a great discussion.

Useful Links

Oil was the only thing keeping Venezuela afloat. Now the government is too dysfunctional to even pump it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/05/18/oil-was-the-only-thing-keeping-venezuela-afloat-now-the-government-is-too-dysfunctional-to-even-pump-it/?utm_term=.81c4220449cc

Venezuela’s oil revenues account for about 98 per cent of export earnings. Apart from petroleum, the country’s natural resources include natural gas, iron ore, gold, bauxite, diamonds and other minerals. The national currency is the bolivar.

https://www.opec.org/opecweb/en/aboutus/171.htm

How Nicolás Maduro went from bus driver to Venezuelan president https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/08/03/how-nicolas-maduro-went-from-a-bus-driver-to-venezuelan-president/?utm_term=.0ec5ef7701fb

The ‘smoking gun’ proving North Carolina Republicans tried to disenfranchise black voters https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/29/the-smoking-gun-proving-north-carolina-republicans-tried-to-disenfranchise-black-voters/?utm_term=.a1a1a02fecaa (It does look like in North Carolina, the voter disenfranchisement scheme was struck down before the election.)

Dodge City Voter suppression was in Kansas, not Montana https://www.apnews.com/e1b4e441d4a448b98f129fcde0556a98

Chicago University Trained the Dictators of Chile Chicago Boys - Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Boys

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