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intalentiveyesterday at 12:37 AM6 repliesview on HN

Sounds like Yeltsin-era privatization is on the menu. “What assets can we strip from the Venezuelan people, for pennies on the dollar?”


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sho_hnyesterday at 1:07 AM

Similar to what Eastern Germany had done to it as well.

missedthecueyesterday at 5:59 AM

The problems with the post soviet economy had nothing to do with FDI.

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andrepdyesterday at 12:49 AM

Vultures doesn't even begin to describe it.

FireBeyondyesterday at 3:37 AM

Yep. Plunder Mode activated. After paying your entrance fee to [insert Trump-affiliated entity here], of course.

polski-gyesterday at 1:36 AM

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ungreased0675yesterday at 4:42 AM

The last twenty years of socialism in Venezuela already did that. Have you seen the extreme poverty there? The once nice, now crumbling infrastructure? The Venezuelan people have already had most of their assets stolen.

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