Marlow moved on to the deteriorating situation in Venezuela,
where Bolton said democracy has “failed over a sustained period of time, and
particularly in the last 15 years since the coup that brought Hugo Chavez to
power.” “He’s now died, his former foreign minister Maduro is now president,”
he noted. “It’s an authoritarian system. Largely the military is in control
because the economy has tanked. The oil industry hasn’t had serious capital
investment or improvement for a long time, so it’s decreasing revenue.”“I’m
very worried about Venezuela,” Bolton professed. “I’m worried that the
instability there will spread as it has to Colombia before, and it’s a source
of real potential problems for the United States.” More…
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