The Putinized Maduro has absolutely no economic strategy for Venezuela. His strategy is to increase the violence.
It is appropriate for the UN Secretary General to speak out on behalf of those without a voice and in this case, it is the people of Venezuela. They don't war, they need food and an economic strategy that will work for them. At this point, the people are best served if they build their own local economies and stop looking toward their leadership to solve their problems.
April 12, 2019
By Andres Oppenheimer
Until now, U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres (click here) had been shamelessly silent about Venezuela, refusing to even consider a full-scale U.N. response to the country’s humanitarian crisis.
But that may be changing.
On April 10, for the first time, Guterres stated in a tweet that, “7 million people in Venezuela need humanitarian assistance. We are working to expand our assistance, in line with the principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality and independence.”...
The Venezuelan people are capable of rebuilding their own economy and it doesn't need praise to carry it out. They can do this with real products and honest labor without corruption.
April 14, 2019
By Kenneth Rapoza
On April 10, (click here) Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro took to Twitter to do what he does best: praise the Bolivar Revolution's struggle and blame the Western world for all of his country's problems. Indeed, Maduro's entire Twitter feed is this type of commentary. But on that particular day, the president took to praising his country's productive capacity. It was all focused on Venezuela's agribusiness, with one tweet praising Venezuela's onion harvest.
Yes, onions. Some 3,000 acres of it, planted by peace-loving small family farmers, not those big commercial operations selling to Cargill. That would be bad. They are doing it for the revolution.
Of all things: onions; a non-commodity mostly used to add taste to rice and salads and maybe a steak, an animal protein that most Venezuelans can no longer afford. Irrelevant. For Maduro, the country's rural production is growing like gangbusters....
