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« Bitter fight | Main | How About We Stop Trying to Find Ways to Blame the Victim? » VenezuelaSome good discussion here. This in particular was interesting, but it almost reaches conspiracy theory levels. IF it's true, it's pretty sick. For a while it was, achieving impressive gains in health care, life expectancy, education, and social security; radically expanding political participation, bringing the excluded and marginal into the debate and giving diverse social movements access to political power; and charting a foreign policy independent from Washington. Now that model is in ruins. It's easy to criticize Chavismo for riding high oil prices. That critique, however accurate, captures only half the story: Chávez, and his cohort of oil diplomats, largely helped create those high oil prices, revitalizing OPEC, affirming Venezuela's commitment to OPEC production quotas and pricing, and working with non-OPEC energy-producing countries, like Brazil and Mexico, to reverse the neoliberal dream... By fnord12 | August 3, 2017, 5:24 PM | Liberal Outrage |