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On 6/7/17 7:52 PM, Anthony Boynton via Marxism wrote:
On top of this, the Chavezistas, despite being aware of the need to use oil rents to diversify the Venezuelan economy to be more self-reliant
I have problems with this. What exactly does this mean? Self-reliance in terms of what? Not having to buy medical equipment from American companies or machinery from Germany? Chavez pumped billions into the agricultural sector to make Venezuela relatively more self-sufficient in food but that sector was not geared to the export market like Cuba's tobacco. I'm afraid that a lot of this discussion is 20-20 hindsight.
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