The ongoing plunge in global oil prices is pushing Venezuela - TopicsExpress



          

The ongoing plunge in global oil prices is pushing Venezuela toward economic collapse just as President Nicolas Maduro — the hand-picked successor to the late socialist Hugo Chavez — faces mounting international criticism for jailing opposition figures after months of street protests. Where Chavez once drew praise from the world’s leftist elite for using the high price of crude oil during the 2000s to underwrite a socialist revolution, a growing number of analysts in Washington say Mr. Maduro is clinging to power in a country on the edge of becoming a failed state. Read more: washingtontimes/news/2014/dec/23/oil-prices-push-venezuela-to-brink-of-economic-col/#ixzz3MqZs7UQP Follow us: @washtimes on Twitter
Posted on: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 19:57:53 +0000

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