17. August 2006
Der neoliberale Herr Chavez
For Venezuela, as Distaste for U.S. Grows, So Does Trade. By Simon Romero, The New York Times. (via Daniel Drezner: The Neoliberal Hugo Chavez; Hervorhebungen hinzugefügt)
[T]he trade numbers illustrate a widening gulf between Mr. Chávez’s increasingly anti-American speeches, aimed at revving his political base, and the needs of Venezuela’s otherwise freewheeling economy.
For instance, non-oil exports to the United States climbed 116 percent in the first three months of the year, according to the National Statistics Institute. Venezuela also maintains close ties to Wall Street banks, with Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse advising the governments of Venezuela and Argentina on their coming sale of $2 billion of bonds.
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Regulatory filings show that Venezuela’s economy, which grew 9.6 percent in the first half of the year, is lifting profits for many American companies.
Most delicately, oil services companies like Halliburton, an emblem of the Venezuelan government’s distaste with American foreign policy, are at the forefront of the deepening interdependence.
“There’s rhetoric and there’s business,” said an official with the United States Commerce Department who closely follows trade with Venezuela, and asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of relations between the countries. “The Venezuelans can’t produce their oil without our equipment. It’s as simple as that.”
With 10 offices and 1,000 employees in Venezuela, Halliburton recently won a contract to assist Petrozuata, a venture between Venezuela’s national oil company and ConocoPhillips, in extracting oil from fields in eastern Venezuela.
Angesichts dieser erschütternden Entwicklung kann natürlich die Kritik von links nicht ausbleiben – und wenn die Kritik von links kommt, dann darf selbstverständlich eine Vokabel nicht fehlen:
The resilient ties with the United States are too much for some of Mr. Chávez’s critics on the left, including Douglas Bravo, a former Marxist guerrilla commander who was once close to Mr. Chávez, but who has broken with him over Venezuela’s heavy reliance on energy companies from rich industrial countries.
“If you look at its speech and discourse, this is a revolutionary government,” Mr. Bravo said in a recent interview with the newspaper El Nacional. “But if you look at what it has accomplished, it is a neoliberal government.”
Wie sich das für einen Neoliberalen gehört, hat Chávez die ihm unterstehende Verwaltung per Dekret angewiesen, von Microsoft auf Linux umzustellen.
Siehe auch Thomas P.M. Barnett: Easier to connect than disconnect.
Verfasst von Marian Wirth um 07:28 Uhr in der Kategorie Innenpolitik, Politik, Wirtschaft (Trackback)
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