Radio War Nerd EP166—Maduro & Venezuela Regime-Change, with Ignacio Portes

Guest: Ignacio Portes, journalist in Buenos Aires Recorded: January 25, 2019 Last week, the Trump Administration launched a big public regime-change campaign to remove Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro from power, and replace him with the opposition leader of Venezuela's National Assembly, Juan Guaidó. The War Nerd recovers from a molar infection in Buenos Aires just in time to discuss the Venezuela crisis with Argentine journalist Ignacio Portes (RWN EP #22 - "War of the Triple Alliance"), who has written some great analyses in the past of where Chavez's political left-populism went right, and how the economics of chavismo — particularly the currency controls — created much of the mess they're in today. We also discuss two decades of US hostility towards Venezuela, from both the White House and the major press — and what to expect if the regime-change operation succeeds in overthrowing Maduro. Read Ignacio Portes' articles at nswfcorp and NakedCapitalism. Follow Ignacio Portes on Twitter.