Caracazo event
also: brutal riots, massive bread riots, week-long protest, rebellion
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Venezuelacountry · 4Ricardo Hausmannperson · 3USAIDorganization · 1Carlos Andrés Pérezperson · 11989 Venezuelan economic reformsevent · 1Nicolás Maduroperson · 1United Statescountry · 1
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Carlos Andrés Pérez carried_out_attack
Caracazo documented
“Nagel put it, the great turn represented your base Washington consensus recipe. Venezuelans underclass erupted in February 1989 when the IMF reforms triggered a 30% hike in bus fares. Perez ultimately unleashed the boot of the military to c…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 11 @ 14:15
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She did a lot of research. Haussmann proceeded to rattle off a litany of Venezuelan opposition talking points as if she'd been handed the script from USAID. Maduro was an illegitimate dictator who single-handedly squashed the opposition-con…
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He was confident that a coup would result in the opening up of the oil industry. Quote, we need to change the oil law so that we can allow private investment in the oil industry, unquote. Haussmann's morning after prescription for Venezuela…
▶ 14:15
Nagel put it, the great turn represented your base Washington consensus recipe. Venezuelans underclass erupted in February 1989 when the IMF reforms triggered a 30% hike in bus fares. Perez ultimately unleashed the boot of the military to c…
▶ 14:45
Many were dumped in unmarked mass graves just outside of Caracas. Their bodies marked with signs of death by execution. Though Haussmann was working as a visiting fellow at Oxford, what? In the UK at the time, he had been instrumental in cr…