Anatoly Kurmanaev
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3 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 2 Jul
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Under Hugo Chavez, the state had...
lavish citizens with goods and services in return for political loyalties.
There was free food, free housing, subsidized travel, and all sorts of social benefits for any aspect of your life you can imagine, for education, for your house pets, for the elderly, for university students, etc., etc.
And this was a time of...
Economic plans in the country, oil prices were high, oil experts were earning the country billions and billions of dollars, and Hugo Chávez could afford that.
Then the oil prices collapsed in 2014, American sanctions start strangling the country's economy, and this becomes no longer sustainable.
And Delcy, as Nicolas Maduro's economic chief...
makes the decision to retreat the state from people's lives.
So the Venezuelan state gradually stops providing basic services that they have for many decades.
The people are left on their own to fend for themselves.
You know, in Russia we have a saying, the survival of the drowning is the business of the drowning.
And this is what Delsey instituted.
And in return, the government gave them some breathing space to do that.
So it stopped harassing businesses.
By and large, it stopped the expropriations.
It loosened currency control.
It just made it easier for people to go about their daily lives, right?
It's unleashed, in a way, market forces of supply and demand to try to fill in the gaps left by the retreating states.
And it did not, you know, create this massive bonanza.
It did not create a Dubai out of Caracas.
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