Comments by "Animal Farm" (@animalfarm7467) on "Are We Witnessing a Coup in Real Time in Venezuela?" video.

  1. With respect to your first caller; I would not take seriously what Allan Nairn said about Venezuela. On January 30, on Democracy Now, Allan Nairn said, “For example, there was just a catastrophic monetary policy that they adopted for quite a few years, where Venezuela, on what they said were anti-imperialist, revolutionary grounds, they essentially adopted the monetary policies proposed by the U.S. right-wing politician Ron Paul, and they kept the currency exchange rate fixed, with catastrophic consequences, creating this massive gap between the official exchange rate and the black market. And that ended up benefiting rich people, who had—who were able to—it helped them to buy imports. But it completely disrupted the rest of the economy.” https://www.democracynow.org/2019/1/30/a_war_for_oil_bolton_pushes From my readings, I have found much of this to be correct except for the statement that Maduro would take economic advice from Ron Paul. Maduro would surely remember the conflict between Chavez and Koch Industries; this is the reason for much of the contemporary conflict. I would hope Maduro would also understand the firm alliance between the Koch minion Ron Paul and the Kochs; so why would Maduro take financial advice from his opponents? Maduro would have seen Ron Paul ranting against Venezuela ever since Chavez ejected the Kochs from Venezuelan oil. Maduro would certainly understand how the Kochs with the aid of Washington and their institutions like the Atlas Network have been undermining “Socialist” governments in Latin America for years. Maduro certainly doesn’t appear to be a “leader” like a Trump or a Bush; he doesn’t appear to be a stupid man. Maduro would also understand how the US oligarchs used their political libertarian puppet Milton Friedman and the Chicago School to restructure the Chilean economy under Pinochet to benefit Wall Street, ITT, and the local oligarchs; for which Friedman received the Medal of Freedom; but that’s another story. Just because a “journalist” has won awards from the establishment in no-way reflects his credibility. Just look at how the great Chris Hedges winces when he is introduced as a Pulitzer Prize winner after he was forced out of the oligarchs' New York Times for opposing the illegal Iraq War. Chris understands that medals from the media establishment of the Fourth Reich only reflect your compliance, not your allegiance to the people. By the way, it’s been a long time since I saw Chris on Hartmann?
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