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IN what was clearly an orchestrated move, the United States along with Canada, the European Union and no less significantly, seven South American states, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Argentina and Paraguay have recognized Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaido as the country’s legitimate president.
On Wednesday Guaido held an inauguration ceremony as vast anti-government crowds filled the streets of the capital Caracas. Beleaguered left-wing president Nicolas Maduro promptly broke off diplomatic relations with Washington and gave American diplomats 72 hours to quit the country. The Trump administration, however, vowed that they were not only staying but would now only deal with Guaido and the National Assembly he leads, which was elected in 2016.
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January 24, 2019
The cocked gun in Venezuela
Economies don’t come much more broken than Zimbabwe’s. After 37 years of misguided and ruinous rule by Robert Mugabe, who was forced from power two years ago, the country, once a major exporter of food and tobacco, had become an economic basket case with a currency made worthless by stampeding inflation. Incompetence, cronyism, corruption and payback land seizures from the once-dominant and highly-efficient white farming community wrecked Zimbabwe, which had once been one of Africa’s most prosperous countries.In trying to straighten out the economy, Mugabe’s successor, President Emmerson Mnangagwa always had a mountain to climb. As much as anything, he needed to build the all-important confidence, both domestically and internationally, that the wallowing hulk of the Zimbabwean...
January 24, 2019
Zimbabwe in turmoil
January 23, 2019
Taliban helping Trump on his way?
January 22, 2019
What’s in a name?
January 21, 2019
The news that wasn’t
January 20, 2019
The games people play
January 17, 2019
Putin goes to Serbia
January 17, 2019
UK makes a mess of Brexit
January 16, 2019
Partially paralyzed politics
January 15, 2019
Trump’s major misunderstanding
