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Latin America

DetlefK

(16,670 posts) Thu Jun 1, 2017, 11:38 AM Jun 2017

I'm confused. Why is Maduro suddenly best friends with Wall Street? [View all]

He loves to harp how the US has engineered the economic problems of his country to topple him.
The US is so evil!

And then:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/how-goldman-sachs-is-ruining-my-venezuela

Goldman Sachs has bought $2.8 billion of venezuelan state-bonds. Wall Street is effectively propping up an anti-american regime.

So... If the US is trying to topple Maduro to install the capitalist opposition as new government, why are they at the same time saving Maduro's ass?

It's almost as if there were no great conspiracy to topple Maduro...

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I'm confused. Why is Maduro suddenly best friends with Wall Street? [View all] DetlefK Jun 2017 OP

Venezuela has been racked by a series of deadly anti-government protests... Rollo Jun 2017 #1

Even if Maduro falls, Venezuela still owes the money marylandblue Jun 2017 #2

Post removed Post removed Jun 2017 #3

Maduro is paying GS a grievous price for a lifeline. Eugene Jun 2017 #4

The reckoning is coming GatoGordo Jun 2017 #5

Yesterday, these "PDV22s" came up for sale on the open market GatoGordo Jun 2017 #6