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Tag: Venezuela

Home Tag: Venezuela (Page 2)

The Sanctions? Meh. But the workers on hunger strike…

June 11, 2019Clifton RossNo CommentsBolivarian Revolution, Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela

In May I published my critique at Caracas Chronicles of the Weisbrot-Sachs’ paper on the US sanctions on Venezuela. I titled it, “Pandering to the Imperial Left.” Now a much better critique (I’m not ashamed to say) has come out with the Brookings Institute, a collaboration between four real economists. It’s available for downloading at…

What I didn’t say on Fox News

May 15, 2019Clifton RossNo CommentsBolivarian Revolution, Fox News, Hugo Chavez, Nicolas Maduro, Socialism, Venezuela

The day after my interview on the far left KGNU show hosted by Joseph Richey, I went onto Fox Business News to do my three or so minutes there. Between the two, I’m not sure which one seemed more amenable to my views, actually. I find myself struggling to articulate my ideas between these two…

An Interview on KGNU, and a Note about Killer Cops in Venezuela

May 14, 2019Clifton RossNo CommentsBolivarian Revolution, Chavistas, Juan Guaidó, Maikel Moreno, Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela

Thanks to Joseph Richey I was invited to be on his program Hemispheres on KCNU in Boulder, Colorado. It’s available here. Update: Richey evidently felt the show was a success, though I spent most of the time arguing with his other guest, an old-time leftist. Actually, I was surprised that anyone on the left would…

Venezuela and the Ethics of Reciprocity

May 12, 2019Clifton RossNo CommentsBolivarian Revolution, CEPR, Chavistas, Jeffrey Sachs, Mark Weisbrot, Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela

The new CEPR (Center for Economic and Policy Research) report, written by Mark Weisbrot and Jeffrey Sachs was little more than a desperate attempt to whitewash the crimes of the Venezuelan government and deflect blame for the humanitarian catastrophe. It failed. Even though the report, entitled “Economic Sanctions as Collective Punishment: The Case of Venezuela,”…

My Interview on Bob Zadek Show: Hugo Chávez Failed Messiah

May 6, 2019Clifton RossNo CommentsBolivarian Revolution, Hugo Chavez, Juan Guaidó, Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela

Consider this an intermission between parts one and two of “We have Met the Enemy”. In part two I’ll be looking at the multiple failures and bad moves that undermined Operation Libertad April 30th 2019. But that story is unfolding, mostly in Spanish language media, so I’m having to do a bit of translation to…

We have met the Enemy: Part 1

May 5, 2019Clifton RossNo CommentsBolivarian Revolution, Chavistas, Opposition, Venezuela

The recent blitz of lies and manipulation in the Left media during the April 30th uprising in Venezuela was overwhelming, making it nearly impossible to address in detail. From the center all the way over to the far left people decried a “coup” that some extremists went so far as to claim was “plotted so…

Venezuela’s Economic Transition: from Oil to Cocaine

April 25, 2019Clifton RossNo CommentsBolivarian Revolution, Chavistas, Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela

With oil production in freefall the failed government (mafia) of Nicolas Maduro has evidently decided to put more energy into the drug trade. No doubt he’s simply following the lead of the Cuban government which, according to a US intelligence report, has found the business to be a lucrative source of funds since the late…

Maduro is Weaker than He Appears

April 16, 2019Clifton RossNo CommentsBolivarian Revolution, Chavistas, Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela

This piece was published today at Caracas Chronicles. The U.S. State Department, even under such a venal executive as is currently in power, still manages to put out some very decent briefs, like this paper on Nicolás Maduro, released on April 15th, 2019. It’s an exceptionally detailed list of the crimes of what it calls “Venezuela’s…

Margarita López Maya, Caracas Chronicles and Vacation

February 20, 2017Clifton RossNo CommentsBolivarian, Bolivarian Revolution, Chavistas, Nicolas Maduro, Tareck El-Aissami, Venezuela

How’s that for a jumbled headline of non sequiturs? Or, at least apparent non sequiturs. Let me explain myself. First of all, Margarita López Maya is coming to the San Francisco Bay Area in early March to present at Stanford and also at the World Affairs Council in Santa Rosa. AND ALSO at the Niebyl-Proctor…

What they aren’t saying about Bolivarian Venezuela

October 27, 2016Clifton RossNo CommentsBolivarian, Bolivarian Revolution, Colectivos, Venezuela

      And I mean no one is saying it, at least not in English in the United States. It’s the most obvious fact about the Chavistas, Hugo Chávez, the Bolivarian project, and it may also be the most important thing to say about the current crisis in Venezuela. Javier Corrales hasn’t mentioned it,…

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