Maduros schmutziger New Deal monde-diplomatique.de - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from monde-diplomatique.de Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Para leer este artículo en español, haz clic aquí.
Venezuela is experiencing the deepest and most prolonged crisis of its history, due both the actions of the Maduro government and the aggressive interventionist policies of the United States. Alongside the political crisis, a protracted recession for the last seven years has caused dramatic humanitarian impacts, including alarming levels of child malnutrition and the collapse of public services, especially in health and education. For a large proportion of the population, the minimum salary is not enough even to pay for the transportation to reach their place of work. Life expectancy has dropped significantly. A generalized feeling of hopelessness for the future has led over five million Venezuelans to emigrate. In the last year, the Covid-19 pandemic has deepened this multidimensional crisis.
February 5, 2021
President Nicolás Maduro seeks to rapidly boost Venezuelan oil production by one million barrels per day (bpd), threatening to ravage the ecologically sensitive Orinoco region. To achieve the increase, he would reverse Chávez’s oil reforms, which extended Venezuelan sovereignty over its natural resources and captured super-profits that would otherwise have flowed to transnational oil companies.
Chávez was an outspoken critic of capitalism and global warming, telling the Copenhagen summit on climate change in March 2013 that “climate change is undoubtedly the most devastating environmental problem of this century,” and that “current human activity exceeds the threshold of sustainability, endangering life on the planet.” In the same speech he warned that global inequality remained a major obstacle to achieving a sane and rapid reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, as globally “we are profoundly unequal.”