Anne Applebaum
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25 recordings
9 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 5d ago
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And there is no audit of how much money comes out again and goes back to the Venezuelan government, even though we've been told that some does.
So somehow the U.S.
is doling out money back to the Venezuelan leadership to pay for, I don't know, government workers' salaries or investment into the oil industry.
I don't know whether money is disappearing into private bank accounts or elsewhere, but I also don't know that that's not happening.
And nobody in Venezuela knows whether or not that's happening.
And it's a very strange moment because, you know, this is all happening with the government of Venezuela, which as far as the Venezuelans are concerned is illegitimate.
I mean, Delcy Rodriguez was not elected by anybody.
She was appointed by Donald Trump.
She was Maduro's vice president.
Her regime, she's part of a regime which is still in place.
So the repressive apparatus, you know, the secret police and the and so on are all still there.
They have let some prisoners out of jail, not all of them.
But the system as it was remains largely intact.
except that the U.S.
is now somehow collecting the revenues.
I asked a Venezuelan economist at Harvard, Ricardo Haussmann, to describe it to me.
What did this look like to him?
And he said, it's a union of two corrupt oligarchies.
And he even said something like, you know, it's a caricature of what imperialism is supposed to look like.
It's a sort of exaggerated version.
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