The main trigger of the crisis Venezuela is undergoing today
– though obviously not its only cause – was the collapse in oil prices over the
last three years. From US$100 per barrel in 2013, the average price of Venezuelan
crude went down to US$88.42 in 2014 and US$44.65. in 2015, falling to its
lowest level in February 2016, when it was worth just US$24.25. Far from
accepting that an alternative to capitalism necessarily had to be a departure
from the destructive development model of unlimited growth, and far from
questioning the rentier petro-state model, the government of President Chávez
intensified it to extremes unknown in the country’s previous history. More…
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