The situation in Venezuela has gone from bad to worse and its people are paying a high cost for the ineptness and corruption of the Maduro / El Aissami regime.
Crude oil and Venezuela
The drop in oil prices has crashed Venezuela’s economy and will most likely bring down the regime of Nicolás Maduro raising questions about what will happen to Venezuela’s $ 20 billion debt to China
Miami Heat
After not visiting Miami for a number of years the city causes a remarkable impression and has become the financial center of Latin America and may become its political center if it survives climate change …
After Crimea, What about Venezuela?
As expected, Russia has annexed Crimea and will have enormous influence on Ukraine’s interim Prime Minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk unless he wants to also lose the Eastern half of his country. At issue is that . Without allied support, U.S. President Barak Obama can not threaten military action because he will then look too much like […]
The Ukraine, Venezuela, and Thailand
While I was enjoying the Doing Good Doing Well conference on Friday and Saturday, the world appeared to be starting to change once again. Events in the Ukraine and Venezuela over the week-end have the potential to sharply re-draw the geo-political map in two critical parts of the world and are also deeply linked to the […]