Venezuela: “It’s Oil, Stupid” · Global Voices

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“It’s the economy, stupid” is a famous political slogan of Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign, devised by his strategist James Carville, who served to win the elections and remind the team that the main concern of voters was their economic problems, such as the recession, above other abstract issues for the electorate, such as the international alignments, the Middle East or the perestroika and glasnost process carried out by countries th…

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If Donald Trump, who usually resorts to public “sincericides,” could explain this week’s Caracas events with a phrase that synthesizes everything, he could quietly sum it up in: “It’s oil, stupid.”