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Reporter Nathan Halverson traveled to Venezuela in 2016 for CIR’s documentary The Grab (revealnews.org/the-grab/) to report on what happens when a once-wealthy country runs out of food. People waited in lines for days just to buy food. Police struggled to maintain order as hunger and desperation spread, and anger toward the government boiled over. The crisis was largely attributed to corruption and economic mismanagement under increasingly authoritarian leaders.
Today, as the United States grapples with a presidency marked by executive overreach, what lessons can Venezuela teach Americans? And what are the long-term costs of ignoring experts and instituting policies that benefit a select few?
For Halverson, who exposed how Venezuela used food as a weapon of control, this moment shows how quickly a crisis can spiral.
To learn about the current situation in Venezuela, listen to the Reveal episode “A Dictator Deposed—What Now for Venezuela?”
Read more here: revealnews.org/podcast/venezuela-us-intervention-maduro-capture-oil
#venezuela #food #corruption #Maduro
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Reporter Nathan Halverson traveled to Venezuela in 2016 for CIR’s documentary The Grab (revealnews.org/the-grab/) to report on what happens when a once-wealthy country runs out of food. People waited in lines for days just to buy food. Police struggled to maintain order as hunger and desperation spread, and anger toward the government boiled over. The crisis was largely attributed to corruption and economic mismanagement under increasingly authoritarian leaders.
Today, as the United States grapples with a presidency marked by executive overreach, what lessons can Venezuela teach Americans? And what are the long-term costs of ignoring experts and instituting policies that benefit a select few?
For Halverson, who exposed how Venezuela used food as a weapon of control, this moment shows how quickly a crisis can spiral.
To learn about the current situation in Venezuela, listen to the Reveal episode “A Dictator Deposed—What Now for Venezuela?”
Read more here: revealnews.org/podcast/venezuela-us-intervention-maduro-capture-oil
#venezuela #food #corruption #Maduro
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