Latin Business Chronicle asks eight leading experts about the outlook the next five years and what the US should do.
BY CHRONICLE STAFF
Has the RCTV close-down (and subsequent protests) weakened or strengthened Hugo Chavez? Will Chavez to continue radicalizing his policies in areas ranging from business to human rights? Will Chavez still be in power five years from now? And what should the U.S. do to promote free markets and democracy in Venezuela? Latin Business Chronicle asked eight experts. Our panel includes:
Roberto Bottome, editor of Caracas-based VenEconomy
Jose Luis Cordeiro, Venezuelan economist and author of The Great Taboo: A True Nationalization of the Venezuelan Petroleum
Gustavo Coronel, former board member of PDVSA and former official of the Inter-American Development Bank
Thor Halvorssen, president of the New York-based Human Rights Foundation
Beatrice Rangel, managing director and president, AMLA Consulting
William Ratliff, research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution
Ambassador Otto J. Reich, president of Washington, DC-based Otto Reich Associates, former U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela and former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs
Michael Shifter, vice president for policy,Inter-American Dialogue
Has the RCTV close-down (and subsequent protests) weakened or strengthened Hugo Chavez?
Halvorssen: It was a disastrous decision from a foreign policy point of view. Internally, it was very unpopular. In the long-term it will allow him to exert firm...
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From: Palomudo, Canada All your so called experts are 100% anti-Chavez. How do you expect readers with a balanced knowledge of what is actually happening in Venezuela to believe this?.
From: Megan, Washington, DC The deck is stacked here. From what I can tell, all of the panel members share the same point of view on Venezuela. How about getting some alternative voices into the debate? "Experts" are not only those willing to tow the line of U.S. government policy toward Venezuela, based as it is in political prejudice against President Chavez.
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