Dr. Christopher Sabatini
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It's going to be difficult.
First of all, there's been over a decade of institutional and infrastructural collapse, decay, and the electrical grid, hospitals, roads, bridges, that basically this earthquake already struck.
So first of all, she's already digging herself and will need to dig herself out of a deficit, an infrastructural deficit.
Second, she was already unpopular.
They were building pressures for some form of political opening.
She's been trying to seek, and with some success, investment in the oil and gas sector, but it hasn't really occurred across the economy and hadn't yet occurred in infrastructure.
But last, she's sitting atop a very fractious and dysfunctional government, really sort of holding it together, and she's going to face a difficult time in responding to
Especially given, again, the corruption within the military, which would normally be one of the first responders in this, as well as the police, as well as simply a state that has become gutted by over 20 years of Chavismo, named after Hugo Chavez, the first president elected in 1998.
It will be, of course.
Yeah.
I mean, I think in this case, there is a benefit to having an interim government that's certainly not a consensus interim government by any stretch, but has the backing of the Trump administration, perhaps to some taste, a little bit too much.
But at least there is an interlocutor who's not as isolated as her predecessor, Nicolás Maduro, was before January 3rd.
But also, you know, Donald Trump is, you know, this is for him, really cites this, the Venezuela model is one of his success stories in foreign policy.
So he's going to have to step up, but he's going to have to do it without the support of the U.S.
Agency for International Development, the U.S.
Development Agency, which he dissolved, or Elon Musk dissolved just a few months into Donald Trump's second term.
Well, that's not as easy as it sounds, because, first of all, there was about $170 billion worth of defaulted debt that was estimated that would have to be cleared before Venezuela could reenter international capital markets and to get lending from the international financial institutions such as the IMF.
and the World Bank.
But just this week, the firm that they had contracted to investigate this claimed their $240 billion worth of debt that was defaulted.
No one knew where the other $70 billion came from.
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