This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, so, remember how, just a month ago, the United States unilaterally kidnapped the leader of a sovereign nation with neither congressional nor allied authorization? No? Well Dr. Francisco Rodriguez of the University of Denver sure does! Colorado’s top expert on Venezuelan history and politics joins us to talk about what’s happened since, and what happens next.
He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research and a Faculty Affiliate at the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies. A native of Venezuela, he is also the founder of Oil for Venezuela, a non-profit organization focused on finding solutions to Venezuela’s humanitarian crisis. He received a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University and an undergraduate degree in economics from Venezuela’s Universidad Católica Andrés Bello.
You can follow Dr. Rodriguez on the website formerly known as Twitter, check out his work on his website, or find him basically anywhere @frrodriguezc.
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