Tony Burke, Author at BSNEWS https://bsnews.info/author/tony-burke/ News You Won't Find on BBC or ITN Tue, 12 Apr 2016 19:11:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://bsnews.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/cropped-truth1-55x55.jpg Tony Burke, Author at BSNEWS https://bsnews.info/author/tony-burke/ 32 32 49333625 Venezuela: Regime Change On The Agenda? https://bsnews.info/venezuela-regime-change-agenda/ https://bsnews.info/venezuela-regime-change-agenda/#respond Tue, 12 Apr 2016 19:11:09 +0000 http://bsnews.info/?p=14462 It is true that Venezuela faces many problems, not least in terms of its economic difficulties. These are being exacerbated both by a conscious economic war — with echoes of the situation in Chile prior to the 1973 coup that brought General Pinochet to power — and the plunge in world oil prices.

But the right’s programme of vicious neoliberalism — illustrated by its proposals for the mass sell-off of housing — will only make these worse, while reversing the gains in reduced poverty and inequality, plus increased labour rights, in recent years.

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