Ricardo Hausmann’s “Morning After” for Venezuela: The neoliberal brain behind Juan Guaido’s economic agenda
While
online audiences know YouTube comedian Joanna Hausmann from her
videos making the case for regime change, her economist father has
flown below the radar. His record holds the key to understanding what
the U.S. wants in Venezuela.
by
Anya Parampil
Part
6 - Hausmann’s power play for “opening up the oil industry”
Fast
forward to 2019, and Joanna Hausmann sits comfortably in her New York
City apartment, complaining that “the Venezuelan economy is a
disaster in a country that sits on the world’s largest oil
reserves.”
Meanwhile,
Joanna’s father, Ricardo, has been barnstorming the U.S. to drum up
support at elite think tanks for a coup he clearly saw on the
horizon. During his November 2018 address to the World Affairs
Council of Greater Houston, which functions as a roundtable for U.S.
oil executives, Hausman laid out his agenda for “the morning after”
regime change.
The
economist called for an end to the Bolivarian government’s policy
of investing oil wealth into Venezuelan society, stating his support
for “private investment in the oil industry without PDVSA
participation.” In fact, Hausmann imagined “the opening up
of the oil industry” as a top item on the new government’s
agenda.
The
selection of Ricardo Hausmann to serve at the Inter-American
Development Bank by Guaidó’s U.S. handlers demonstrates how
central neoliberal economics are to his own administration.
“This
is about people,” Joanna Hausmann insisted at the end of her
YouTube performance; “this is about people wanting to take their
country back.”
Those
people include her family, and they are not your average Venezuelans.
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