Francisco Rodriguez person
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Francisco Rodriguez member_of
Bank of America documented
“Following his ouster, Rodriguez moved stateside and established himself as one of the Chavismo's most prominent distractors while animating coveted posts in academia and on Wall Street, including a Latin American analyst for Bank of America…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 29:54
Francisco Rodriguez member_of
Merrill Lynch documented
“Following his ouster, Rodriguez moved stateside and established himself as one of the Chavismo's most prominent distractors while animating coveted posts in academia and on Wall Street, including a Latin American analyst for Bank of America…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 29:54
Francisco Rodriguez exposed
Venezuela book_quoted
“Rodriguez remained true to his analytical and balanced character. Rather than fan the flames of hybrid war, Rodriguez employed his academic bona fides to produce a series of reports thoroughly documenting and detailing and exposing the grue…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 30:51
Francisco Rodriguez exposed
CLAP book_quoted
“Francisco Rodriguez conducted an in-depth analysis of CLAP in 2021 and determined the program was associated with a more than doubling of households' access to food assistance. And this is a guy that doesn't like Maduro. But he acknowledged…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 8:35
Francisco Rodriguez exposed
Alex Saab book_quoted
“had raised the cost of doing business throughout Venezuela. Francisco Rodriguez, the economist and Maduro critic, therefore argued that the fact that any firm providing goods and services to Venezuelan government runs the risk of being accu…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 21:09
Mentions (19)
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G4 coalition, so he was even losing support among his own opposition leaders in Venezuela. Yet, as is customary with Venezuela politics, the AN leadership vote was a complicated affair. Opposition analyst Francisco Rodriguez produced a thor…
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declared victory. He did not provide attendance records to certify his claim to the AN presidency. Rodriguez thus determined that since no roll call vote was taken, the vote was by a show of hands only. There was no direct way to verify the…
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who were only authorized to vote in the event that their principal member was absent. So an unauthorized meeting, not in the legislature. Rodriguez broke through the confusion by analyzing both vote counts to determine who would have won th…
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Rodriguez said that he estimated under normal conditions, not when they're having knock down, drag out brawls in the legislature, Guaido would have won reelection of the National Assembly by an 86 vote to Parra's 71. However, he noted that …
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At its core, CLAP represented a direct lifeline from the Venezuelan government to its population, a path to circumvent their crazy supply chains controlled by domestic elite oligarchy because they began hoarding common staples to destabiliz…
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Francisco Rodriguez conducted an in-depth analysis of CLAP in 2021 and determined the program was associated with a more than doubling of households' access to food assistance. And this is a guy that doesn't like Maduro. But he acknowledged…
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The food was distributed through the community council, and the community council was majority opposition forces. Rodriguez's academic review of CLAP confirmed that Mattson's observation was true. Using data from 27 separate surveys conduct…
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had raised the cost of doing business throughout Venezuela. Francisco Rodriguez, the economist and Maduro critic, therefore argued that the fact that any firm providing goods and services to Venezuelan government runs the risk of being accu…
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In the political age of protracted polarity and performative partisan theater, Francisco Rodriguez is perhaps the most moderate Venezuelan one could encounter. Though he held from a prominent family, his father was a popular Ascension Democ…
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Rodriguez did not enter politics himself until 2000. That year, the Harvard-educated economist returned to Caracas to lead Venezuela's equivalent of the Congressional Budget Office. Selected as a consensus pick, tasked with mediating betwee…
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disposition eventually placed him in direct conflict with the ideologues on both sides of the aisle, including a young lawmaker named Nicolas Maduro. In his soon-to-be-publicized memoir, Scorched Earth, The Political Economy of Venezuela's …
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Social Development Commission over the former's unfavorable review of a proposed social security legislation. The economist's critical nature eventually inspired a successful Chavista-led campaign to remove him from office in March of 2004.…
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Following his ouster, Rodriguez moved stateside and established himself as one of the Chavismo's most prominent distractors while animating coveted posts in academia and on Wall Street, including a Latin American analyst for Bank of America…
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candidate Henry Falcon in his failed bid to unseat Maduro. To this day, neither Falcon nor Rodriguez have recognized the vote's outcome. Yet while other U.S.-based opposition figures featured in this book, including Harvard professor and Gu…
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Rodriguez remained true to his analytical and balanced character. Rather than fan the flames of hybrid war, Rodriguez employed his academic bona fides to produce a series of reports thoroughly documenting and detailing and exposing the grue…
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Rodriguez published one such review, a study outlining the impact of U.S. sanctions on Venezuela's economy, in January of 2022. The in-depth data production and analysis, he determined that Washington's sanctions were the decisive factor be…
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a development that in turn drove the country's unprecedented economic contraction. So it had nothing to do with socialism or benefits the social programs that were trying to be installed down there. It had everything to do with economic war…
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illustrating that three of the downturns directly corresponded with new U.S. sanctions on Caracas. In Rodriguez's words, the time series data represented a statistical smoking gun, implicating the U.S. in Venezuela's economic meltdown. Yes,…
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Its oil sector was not collapsing and nobody, no macroeconomic analysts, no oil sector analysts predicted something remotely resembling the type of collapse that we saw. The economists went on saying sanctions were essentially a surgical st…