{"id":43490,"date":"2019-02-03T14:37:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T19:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43490"},"modified":"2019-02-03T14:37:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T19:37:13","slug":"wsj-confirms-trump-appointed-venezuela-coup-leader-plans-neoliberal-capitalist-shock-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43490","title":{"rendered":"WSJ Confirms: Trump-Appointed Venezuela Coup Leader Plans Neoliberal Capitalist Shock Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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WSJ Confirms: Trump-Appointed Venezuela Coup Leader Plans Neoliberal Capitalist Shock Therapy<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Venezuela\u2019s US-appointed coup leader Juan Guaid\u00f3 plans to privatize state assets and give foreign corporations access to oil, the Wall Street Journal admitted.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The Wall Street Journal reported that Venezuela\u2019s US-appointed coup leader Juan Guaid\u00f3<\/a> has already drafted plans for \u201copening up Venezuela\u2019s vast oil sector to private investment\u201d and \u201cprivatizing assets held by state enterprises.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report confirms what The Grayzone previously reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJuan Guaid\u00f3, recognized by Washington as the rightful leader, said he would sell state assets and invite private investment in the energy industry,\u201d read the  Wall Street Journal\u2019s<\/a> January 31 article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The paper noted that Guaid\u00f3 plans \u201cto reverse President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro\u2019s economic polices,\u201d explaining:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMr. Guaid\u00f3 said his plan called for seeking\u00a0<\/em>financial aide from multilateral organizations<\/strong>, tapping\u00a0<\/em>bilateral loans<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/em>restructuring debt<\/strong>and\u00a0<\/em>opening up Venezuela\u2019s vast oil sector to private investment<\/strong>. It includes\u00a0<\/em>privatizing assets held by state enterprises<\/strong>\u00a0\u2026 He also said he\u2019d\u00a0<\/em>end\u00a0<\/strong>wasteful<\/em>\u00a0state subsidies<\/strong>\u00a0and take steps to\u00a0<\/em>revive the private sector<\/strong>.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In other words, Guaid\u00f3 plans to implement the neoliberal capitalist shock therapy that Washington has imposed on the region for decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using funding from US-dominated international financial institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Venezuelan coup leader seeks to adopt an aggressive \u201cstructural adjustment\u201d program, enacting the kinds of economic policies that have led to the preventable deaths of millions of people<\/a> and an explosion of poverty and inequality in the years following capitalist restoration in the former Soviet Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a speech, Juan Guaid\u00f3 even echoed rhetoric that is popular among US conservatives: \u201cHere, no one wants to be given anything.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is clear that the coup leader\u2019s priorities reflect those of Venezuela\u2019s capitalist oligarchs and right-wing politicians in the United States. Economic liberalization is the Venezuelan opposition\u2019s first and most important goal; democracy is just a pretense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WSJ Confirms: Trump-Appointed Venezuela Coup Leader Plans Neoliberal Capitalist Shock Therapy Venezuela\u2019s US-appointed coup leader Juan Guaid\u00f3 plans to privatize state assets and give foreign corporations access to oil, the Wall Street Journal admitted. The Wall Street Journal reported that Venezuela\u2019s US-appointed coup leader Juan Guaid\u00f3 has already drafted plans for \u201copening up Venezuela\u2019s vast oil sector […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6],"tags":[23988,7844,24288,24109,14421,1278,861],"class_list":["post-43490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-ben-norton","tag-donald-trump","tag-grayzone-project","tag-juan-guaido","tag-neoliberal-capitalism","tag-oil-industry","tag-wall-street-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43491,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43490\/revisions\/43491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}