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The campaign for Venezuela’s Dec. 6 National Assembly election is only three weeks long, but in the United States it started about…
Mark Weisbrot
Mark Weisbrot is Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan. He is author of the book Failed: What the "Experts" Got Wrong About the Global Economy (Oxford University Press, 2015), co-author, with Dean Baker, of Social Security: The Phony Crisis (University of Chicago Press, 2000), and has written numerous research papers on economic policy.
There will be international campaign events, including U.S. newspaper editorials, Senate hearings and more, every day in the next week and following the elections
The eurozone crisis is a perfect example of the damage done when people in high places make basic mistakes
It is now clear that the European authorities do not intend to let the Greek economy recover any time in the foreseeable future
Upcoming elections likely to attract renewed skepticism of Washington’s fresh approach to Caracas
The European authorities are offering no future to Greece – no light at the end of the tunnel, especially for the 60 percent of young people who are already unemployed
There are many people in the Obama administration and Congress who do not want to normalize relations with Venezuela
Berlin is not going to force Athens out of the eurozone anytime soon
The strategy of trying to destabilize the Greek economy and government without forcing Greece out of the euro has its risks. It is also profoundly anti-democratic and wrong
The intention of expanding commercial and diplomatic relations with Cuba was mainly to pursue a more effective strategy of undermining the Cuban government — and all of the left-wing governments in the region