Senior American officials from the Biden administration have visited Venezuela as the first step in an effort to drive a wedge between the South American petro-state and Russia. Samuel Mangold-Lenett reports for The Blaze: Senior American officials traveled to Venezuela to try and drive a wedge between Venezuela and its longtime ally Russia. The New […]
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Venezuela’s Gold Heist
Venezuela’s gold has been stolen. Not in the traditional sense, such as a cat burglar sneaking into the vault and pocketing a bar or two. No, instead Venezuela’s socialist government has stolen the country’s national treasure to fund its illegitimate rule. Using Russian jets, and African middle men, Venezuela’s socialist rulers have sold 7.4 tons […]
Socialism, Or How to Ruin a Good Economy
After the socialist government of Hugo Chavez rose to power in Venezuela, it began distributing more of the country’s wealth to welfare programs and sympathetic socialist regimes in nearby Latin American countries. However, when oil prices fell, the government began running out of money and the consequences of building a state on a foundation funded […]
How Socialism Works in Venezuela
Recently the NYT published two major articles on the crisis in Venezuela. Never once did the newspaper blame the crisis on socialism, but rather on “misguided policies.” Not mentioned as “misguided policies:” widespread nationalizations of industry, massive public housing schemes, heavily subsidized food and household products, “free” healthcare. Francis Menton in the Manhattan Contrarian explains […]
Venezuela Rich with the World’s Largest Oil Resources
At The American Conservative, Pat Buchanan makes clear that the Venezuelan crisis is not one the U.S. should be involved in militarily. The country has vast oil wealth, and its government poses no imminent threat to America or Americans. Pat writes (abridged): “The brutal repression of the Venezuelan people must end, and it must end […]
America Needs to Heed the Wonders of Socialism
How can it be? Venezuela, once the richest country in South America, is now famous for malnourished children, starving adults and spreading disease. As the world looks on with horror, warns Mary Anastasia O’Grady in the WSJ, the real problem is ideological. It’s a lesson Americans need to heed. Socialism in Venezuela whipped up envy […]
Venezuela: What Cato’s Ted Galen Carpenter Concludes
At The American Conservative, Cato Institute senior fellow, Ted Galen Carpenter, explains that “it is not the proper role of the United States to interfere in the internal affairs of Venezuela or Nicaragua. He rules out the idea of military intervention, but also says sanctions would be inappropriate. But Galen Carpenter doesn’t spare supporters of […]
Bernie Sanders Covering for Communists in Venezuela
Sen. Bernie Sanders, the presidential aspirant and cranky socialist from Vermont, refuses to call Venezuela’s President Nicolas Madura a dictator, despite the political repression in the country. Sanders maintains that there are “still democratic operations taking place in that country.” Instead, he chose to deflect. Fox News reports: “Why have you stopped short of calling […]
A Cyber-attack Didn’t Take Down Venezuela’s Power Grid, Socialism Did
Rolling blackouts have plagued Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, since February, and longer blackouts have been the norm more recently. The government and even Russia have blamed the blackouts on a cyber-attack by the United States, but the Wall Street Journal’s Ryan Dube reports that the problem has more to do with the brain drain happening at […]