US sanctions threaten "famine" in Venezuela, leading economist warn
9 min.
Top Venezuelan economist Francisco Rodríguez's new study says the Trump administration's sanctions have cost Venezuela $16.9 billion per year – and caused food shortages that could lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths.
US meddling in Venezuela "completely wrongheaded," ex-advisor to Maduro rival says
23 min.
Francisco Rodríguez, a leading Venezuelan economist, warns that U.S. sanctions on Venezuela could cause "hundreds of thousands" of deaths. A former advisor to opposition presidential candidate Henri Falcon, Rodríguez also lays out his criticisms of the Maduro government as well as what he calls "completely wrongheaded" U.S. meddling. "I'm very concerned by the lack of discussion of what we're going to do to stop hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans from starving to death," Rodríguez says.
Mueller mania worsens US-Russia conflict
21 min.
As Robert Mueller testifies before Congress, Stephen F. Cohen, professor emeritus at New York University and Princeton University, says that Russiagate has not just overshadowed US-Russia tensions -- but made them worse. Cohen's latest book is "War with Russia: From Putin & Ukraine to Trump & Russiagate." (Part II coming soon)
Aaron Maté's Questions for Mueller
27 min.
On the eve of the Robert Mueller hearings, Aaron Maté shares his top questions for the now former Special Counsel and savior figure.
