(np) Guaido is to Maduro as Pinochet to Allende? As Private equity is to Red Lobster?

[Michael Bailey]

*Aldous Tyler:* Understood… And what I want people to understand is that
the word “embargo” is this nice sounding word, much more pleasant sounding
than “economic warfare”.

*Palast:* It’s a siege, it’s a medieval method, the siege of a nation where
you literally stop the import of medicine and food, and you don’t give them
their own money. You know that Britain took $10 billion of gold bullion,
which was sitting in the bank of England, that belonged to Venezuela, and
they literally seized it and gave it to this guy, Guaidó — this is insane.

When Hugo Chavez had the gold bricks removed from the Federal Reserve in
New York and Fort Knox, where Venezuela’s gold reserves were kept, and he
demanded that they be sent back to Caracas, people said, oh, that’s crazy.
But boy, he made a mistake by leaving his gold bullion in Britain, so, it
wasn’t crazy. We did seize that nation’s assets.

And then we say, oh, look how terrible their economy is. Well, wait a
minute, you just stole all their money, you crush their oil industry, and
now we’re paying the price — literally paying the price in Ukraine, and
literally paying the price at the pump. We’ve got to stop this war with
Venezuela and no one’s talking about it.