united states move beyond rhetoric of support, and do provide the resources and equipment that ukrainians have been asking for since day one. the longer this war continues the more it does play to putin s advantage. because it is being fought on the ukrainian home front. we saw a engagement happen in russia, but we did not see 80,000 people disappear from an entire city and that city be raised as it has been in ukraine. so the longer this continues the harder it is for ukrainians to get a true victory. and this is an opportunity, then. while putin is on the back foot, while he is still trying to shore up his own military engagement internally and how he manages his strategy for the nato allies to really go all in on supporting ukraine. but we haven t seen that vigor come out yet. so putin is going to be trying to shore up some of his support at the same time. and you think you will get that support,, kevin?
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Source: Francisco Rodríguez, “Crude Realities: Understanding Venezuela’s Economic Collapse,” Venezuelan Politics and Human Rights (blog), Washington Office on Latin America, September 20, 2018.
Rodríguez found that oil production in Venezuela followed the same general pattern as in Colombia until Trump’s financial sanctions were imposed. Production levels in both countries basically tracked international oil prices, but after Trump’s sanctions were imposed production levels in both countries diverged drastically: Venezuela’s plummeted while Colombia’s stabilized. Had Venezuela’s production continued to follow the same pattern as before the financial sanctions, its oil revenues would have been drastically higher.
the enduring scene, as the bid to get peaceful humanitarian aid across. the question now is what sort of response, promised by john bolton, will we see from the white house? nick paton walsh, colombia. let s talk about this with jennifer mccoy. jennifer, a professor of political science at georgia state university. joining us far from atlanta, georgia, in budapest. thank you. juan guaido, set to meet with mike pence in colombia. this is on the heels of welcoming dozens of military defectors from his native venezuela. how strong is guaido s hand right now, compared to nicholol madu madu maduro? maduro controls the security forces and the government institutions. but guaido has strong international backing. and the population is med up and
a member of the syrian committee tasked with collecting the names of billing return is and sending the list to damascus for approval who is suspicious of the government mitali the names with those who protested against the regime and neither of us them upon arrival or refuse them approval to return but goes on denies the charge. it s not a condition not an issue of approval it s just about informing the government of the names of the people returning. he claims syria is now safe and to convince us he asked one of the refugees who have applied to return to talk to us do you want to go back of course what s keeping me here but it doesn t go quite as he and the song which he is confronted by angry syrians. back to syria safely is impossible. that s all. he shows his bullet scars the military defectors white house today
beginning of a two-month process that sees 30,000 civilians exchanged ending years of hardship for many. some of the towns residents have been forced to eat rodents and boil grass to survive. in some government-held towns residents are being given the choice of reconciling with the government or leaving. they ve been ask to swear allegiance to assad in exchange for amnesty. any military defectors asked to rejoin the army. beaten into submission. if you look at a town of 40,000, 38,000 will stay and swear allegiance to assad. bill: reporting from london on the latest there. shannon: let s bring in a member of the white house security council under presidents bush and obama. good morning, gillian. because you have this experience over multiple administrations now, what do you make of the latest moves by president trump?