Venezuela: From Oil Proxy to the Bolivarian Movement and Sabotage. Abysmal Poverty under US Proxy Rule (1918-1998)

Michel Chossudovsky talks to Bonnie Faulkner on Guns and Butter to discuss the economic and political crisis in Venezuela, its history as an oil proxy nation since the discovery of oil in 1918, through successive dictatorships, coups d'etats, a fake nationalization of the oil industry, the Chavista movement and destabilization through financial warfare, with a special emphasis on Michel Chossudovsky's personal experience there conducting a study on poverty in 1975 as Advisor to the Venezuelan Minister of Planning.

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