Bloomberg Discovers Venezuela Exists, Again
Bloomberg offers an 'exclusive interview' with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, discussing U.S. relations and Venezuela's 'economic outlook.' The piece dutifully notes the 'stringent sanctions' but skirts around the inconvenient truth that these very sanctions, enacted by the U.S. government on claims of pro-democracy efforts (see Executive Order 13692, 2015), have primarily punished the
Venezuelan populace, not its leadership. Oil production, once overseen by Venezuela's state-owned PDVSA, plummeted from 3.2 million barrels per day in 2000 to around 600,000 barrels per day by 2020 directly under sanction pressure (Source: OPEC). It's almost as if 'rebuilding the nation's oil industry' becomes significantly more challenging when the global hegemon has actively sought to dismantle
it. How many 'exclusive interviews' will be required before the mainstream media connects the dots between U.S. foreign policy, economic strangulation, and the very 'challenges' they report? One might wonder if the 'exclusive' aspect isn't about access, but about maintaining the illusion of objective reporting while avoiding the obvious.