Trump Brags About His "Brilliant" Venezuela Scheme While History Screams a Warning

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : And oil industry experts say it'll take years, perhaps a decade, to get Venezuelan production meaningfully increased, a timeline that will run well past the political lifetimes of both Trump and Rodríguez.
44% : In the country with the largest proven oil reserves on Earth -- larger than Saudi Arabia's, Russia's, or America's -- Bush's price for debt relief was that the country's poor had to pay more to get to work.
39% : Four years earlier, Reagan and his Treasury Secretary James Baker had begun leaning hard on Venezuela to cut back on their social programs and reduce their taxes on rich people, just like they'd done here with trickle-down, only this one under the banner of "austerity" and IMF-supervised "restructuring.

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