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Venezuelan former minister urges foreign invasion
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SOLIDARITY campaigners attacked former Venezuelan minister Ricardo Hausmann’s call today for a foreign military invasion to end a supposed “famine.”
Britain’s Venezuela Solidarity Campaign (VSC) slammed Mr Hausmann for his article entitled D-Day Venezuela, published yesterday by the Project Syndicate website funded by billionaire speculator George Soros.
The Harvard University professor and former chief economist of the Inter-American Development Bank claimed Venezuela’s economic woes, which the government blames on a US-directed economic war and black market spivs, had created a “famine.”
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