A nation must think before it acts.
FPRI’s Vanessa Neumann was interviewed on Al Jazeera English after President Nicolas Maduro announced a state of emergency to deal with the economic crisis.
“The factors are economic control, misappropriation led by political ideology, a lot of the money was squandered when the oil prices were hot…More importantly than that a lot of money was squandered in exerting regional control – giving money to Bolivia, Argentina…”