alt Hacker NewsSmart move to acknowledge this and go for the debt restructuring while the current U.S. president sees Venezuela as his major foreign policy win.
The government will be able to leverage that to get the U.S. government to push for far more favorable terms for Venezuela than it ever would have otherwise.
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sourcegrift • today at 3:39 PM
Like him or hate him, Venezuela has been quite literally a fabulous win.
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It's really absurd how well the Maduros kidnapping plan worked. Without even changing the party in power, Trump can pretend Venezuela is reformed and do all of the economic normalization a liberal president never would have gotten away with.
But the back-to-back policy disasters are otherwise a good reminder that a broken clock is only right twice a day.