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He deplores Chavismo. Relations with America "would likely improve with the election of an opposition candidate," he says. Go slow and make it happen, he urges.
Miguel Tinker Salas is Pomona College Professor of Latin American History. He's a frequent mainstream media commentator.
"Follow the Oil," he headlined. Last year, OPEC said Venezuelan reserves topped Saudi Arabia's. They're the world's largest supply. The country's natural gas reserves are the region's largest.
Washington covets control. It wants Chavez ousted to assure it. It wants neoliberal hardliners replacing him.
Salas admits how Chavez "s(hook) things up." He reduced poverty dramatically. Privileged Venezuelans resent him. Most Venezuelans support him.
Whatever Venezuela's future holds, its "fractured society" will continue "battl(ing) over who will benefit from the riches that" began flowing a century earlier.
Salas was mostly even-handed. He stopped well short of telling all. Bolivarianism involves more than oil. Its spirit pervades society. It champions progressive politics. It prioritizes helping Venezuela's most disadvantaged. Salas didn't explain.
Ray Walser is a veteran US Foreign Service officer. He was a State Department official for 27 years. He's a right wing ideologue.
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