U.S. intelligence warns of Venezuela collapse
With dire shortages of basic goods, a looming foreign debt payment, horrific street crime and intransigent political divisions, Venezuela is in danger of collapsing into waves of deadly violence, U.S. intelligence officials warned Friday.
Venezuela, which controls the world's largest reserves of crude oil, is in the throes of a potentially explosive political stalemate after opposition parties gained a majority in the national congress in elections late last year.
"The goal now is to mitigate the crisis that is unfolding," a senior U.S. intelligence official said Friday, briefing a small group of reporters on condition of anonymity to discuss internal assessments. "You can hear the ice cracking."
Venezuela's heavily armed population staggers under the world's highest inflation rate. Maduro may also be worried about potential threats within his own inner circle and in the military, as the country deteriorates.
There has been widespread concern in the international finance world that Venezuela would fail to pay $6.85 billion in debt service over the last half of the year, sending the country of 30 million people into default.
see also http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/16/w...n-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
(Time for a Pérez Jiménez Marcos Pérez Jiménez - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia to return - he with the Marita Lorenz connection. With all the US "activities" during Chaves time this is the chicken coming home. As Fort McMurray has gone up in flames is it time for some cheap oil from Caracas?)
With dire shortages of basic goods, a looming foreign debt payment, horrific street crime and intransigent political divisions, Venezuela is in danger of collapsing into waves of deadly violence, U.S. intelligence officials warned Friday.
Venezuela, which controls the world's largest reserves of crude oil, is in the throes of a potentially explosive political stalemate after opposition parties gained a majority in the national congress in elections late last year.
"The goal now is to mitigate the crisis that is unfolding," a senior U.S. intelligence official said Friday, briefing a small group of reporters on condition of anonymity to discuss internal assessments. "You can hear the ice cracking."
Venezuela's heavily armed population staggers under the world's highest inflation rate. Maduro may also be worried about potential threats within his own inner circle and in the military, as the country deteriorates.
There has been widespread concern in the international finance world that Venezuela would fail to pay $6.85 billion in debt service over the last half of the year, sending the country of 30 million people into default.
see also http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/16/w...n-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
(Time for a Pérez Jiménez Marcos Pérez Jiménez - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia to return - he with the Marita Lorenz connection. With all the US "activities" during Chaves time this is the chicken coming home. As Fort McMurray has gone up in flames is it time for some cheap oil from Caracas?)
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