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Taking stock of the Venezuelan economy is a notoriously difficult and painful task. Yet we take a deep dive in this infographic to understand what the indicators show and what future prospects, under US semi-colonial control, may hold. Follow the thread 🧵
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"Cuba is not a threat!" Solidarity movements and Cuban FM Bruno Rodríguez got together in Harlem, NY, to condemn Washington's murderous blockade
“Cuba is not a threat, the blockade is! Solidarity is not a crime, the blockade is!”
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez (@BrunoRguezP) spoke to solidarity activists in Harlem at “Voices for Peace: Cuba Is Not A Threat”.
Watch here: piped.video/live/epdOrAfZd7I
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Taking stock of the Venezuelan economy is a notoriously difficult and painful task. Yet we take a deep dive in this infographic to understand what the indicators show and what future prospects, under US semi-colonial control, may hold. Follow the thread 🧵
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Tensions continue to boil over recurrent blackouts in Venezuela. Locals in Cojedes and Guárico states blocked highways, demanding answers from authorities amid outages lasting more than 8 hours. Apart from the consistent blackouts, the issue is that authorities are unable/unwilling to schedule the rationing so people can minimally plan around it
#27Sep | 🚨 Habitantes de los estados Cojedes y Guárico protestaron la noche de este sábado 26 de septiembre mediante la quema de cauchos 💥 y el cierre de vías públicas 🚧, para exigir una respuesta gubernamental ante los constantes y prolongados apagones que afectan a ambas entidades.
Las manifestaciones surgieron de forma espontánea en diversos municipios 🗣️, debido al deterioro continuo de la infraestructura energética y la falta de soluciones que, señalaron, deberían plantearse desde el gobierno.
🎥 Gabriel Bastidas
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Follow the link below to see the full infographic, which has extra information in the interactive windows.
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The minimum wage, which is used to compute vacation pay or severance, is now virtually zero. And despite the recent hikes, the incomes for the vast majority of the population are still far from covering living costs
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The Venezuelan working class has borne the brunt of the crisis. Incomes fell to dramatic lows before a modest recovery in recent years that replaced wages w/ bonuses. These raised the income floor but did away w/ collective bargaining rights, cheapening labor costs for employers
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Do Venezuelan authorities have a plan to tackle this? The recent plan has been to sacrifice foreign currency at the altar of the market, hoping the bourgeoisie will eventually be satisfied. This approach creates profitable speculation avenues while taking away regulatory tools
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Venezuela's economy is de facto dollarized, with the USD used by the state and private sector alike for everything from cost structures to setting prices. However, the govt's plan to set worker bonuses in USD has not stopped purchasing power from being eroded
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And how does this all materialize in terms of everyday conditions? Inflation, always a major factor, was brought down from unimaginable levels but remains firmly in triple digits. This precludes any notion of economic stability for the Venezuelan people
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Trump delusions notwithstanding, investments into the Vzlan oil sector have not really taken off, which jeopardizes the govt's plan of offering lots of benefits in hopes that it will later trickle down. At the same time, a heavily strained electric grid is a structural obstacle
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We'll see how the picture changes w/ the oil output recovery this year. However, revenues are now under US control, with the timings and amounts returned to Caracas left to Trump officials' discretion. The US has reportedly paid itself back the costs of the Jan 3 military attack
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While economic diversification was always presented as a priority, oil exports remained by far the main source of revenue for Vzla. Though non-oil exports have increased in relative weight in recent years, this is more due to the contraction of the oil industry under sanctions
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The Venezuelan economy has historically marched to the oil industry's drumbeat. The recent collapse and modest recovery have been no exception, as the plot below clearly indicates
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The precarity of Venezuela's economy is evident in these figures. Post-earthquake reconstruction costs are estimated at around 40% of GDP, while foreign debt is nearly 2.5 times GDP. This debt is illegitimate, but the government has pledged to restructure it
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A collapse in oil prices followed by devastating US sanctions drove the Venezuelan economy to an unprecedented contraction. Despite 5 years of rising GDP, the economy is still around 1/3 of the size it was in 2013, and it'd take 10 years of double-digit growth to get back there
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Rodríguez’s UN speech came amid a second round of US-backed talks focused on electoral guarantees, freedom of expression, institutional reform and Venezuelan assets held abroad. venezuelanalysis.com/news/ve…
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No longer an "ally." Cuban Deputy FM Carlos de Cossio offered a more "diplomatic" version of how Havana views its ties to Caracas and the foreign policy shifts undertaken by the acting Rodríguez administration
Important interview with Cuban Deputy FM Carlos de Cossio:
Q: How do you think about Venezuela today, what's happened there and indeed what's happening in that country today?
A: We're trying to understand it, that's what I can say.
Q: Would Cuba ever relinquish control of resources in the way that we've seen Venezuela do over the last few weeks?
A: No, I wouldn't see why we would do it, because the resources in Cuba belong to the people of Cuba. Our government does not have the right to deprive them of that and hand it over to another country.
Q: Do you still see Venezuela as an ally in the same way, under this interim president? Of Cuba?
A: Yes. It's a friendly country.
Q: But not an ally, you wouldn't say ally.
A: No, ally is a strong word.
Q: Do you think that Delcy Rodriguez, who is in power, has betrayed the Bolivarian Revolution? Has she changed, do you think, over the last few months?
A: She seems to have changed.
Q: How so? Tease that out a little bit more.
A: No, I won't go further than that.
Q: When you look back on the 2024 election in Venezuela, who do you believe won that election? Was it Nicolas Maduro?
A: Nicolas Maduro.
Q: You believe that to be the case. Is there a fear on your part, on the Cuban government's part, that your president, past leaders could end up here in the US in a jail cell alongside Nicolas Maduro? How real do you take that threat to be?
A: We take real that there is the intention of some people in the United States for that to happen. But we find it unrealistic, we will not allow it.
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Delegations representing the Venezuelan gov't and a defunct, pro-opposition parliament have concluded another round of US-backed dialogue. In a joint statement, the two parties announced progress in unblocking access to certain media outlets and a commission to review Supreme Court candidates
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