The Visible Hand of the Market: Economic Warfare in Venezuela

230 Pages·2017·5.4 MB·English

by  Pasqualina Curcio Curcio, Luis Britto Garcia

THE VISIBLE HAND OF THE MARKET
ECONOMIC WARFARE IN VENEZUELA
Pasqualina Curcio Curcio
© Pasqualina Curcio Curcio
First edition in spanish: Editorial Nosotros Mismos, CA. 2016
Original Title: La mano visible del mercado. Guerra económica en Venezuela.
© Ediciones MinCI, 2017
© First edition in english, 2017
Translated by Department of Translation and Interpretation of the People’s
Power Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, 2017.
Design and Layout: Carina Falcone
The legal deposit is done.
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ISBN: 978-980-12-9418-4
PUBLISHER’S NOTE
This book is the result of the revision and adaptation of
some works published by the author - Chapter One, “Planned
Shortage”, is based on a writing, “shortage and inflation”, dated
December 20, 2015 and published on the website of the Instituto
de Estudios Avanzados (IDEA, Spanish acronym for Institute of
Advanced Studies). Chapter II, entitled “Induced Inflation”,
stems from the work “Manipulation of the exchange rate and
induced inflation”, written on April 4, 2016. Chapter III, “Supply
Boycott”, is based on an article published on April 21, 2016.
Chapter IV, “Covert Trade Embargo”, is based on the paper “Lack
of Foreign Exchange or Covert Trade Embargo”, dated May 19,
2016. All these materials were published on the website 15 y
Último (a website specialized in economic analysis and Op’ed
columns). Unlike the others, Chapter V, “International Financial
Blockade”, remained unpublished until the issue of this book.
After the Final Remarks -the final chapter- the book offers
61 charts displayed at the end of the book for the convenience
of the reader. They contain substantial information provided by
the author.

“This book by Pasqualina Curcio, The Visible Hand of the Market -
Economic Warfare in Venezuela, is available at the International Book
Fair, which is a token of how culture, knowledge and reading blossom. I
recommend this book”.
“I commission the Admiral-in-chief and Ernesto Villegas to have one
hundred thousand copies of this book printed, for free distribution to all
the CLAPs (Supply and Production Local Committees) for the Christmas
season. I request the whole team to produce a set of educational videos
about each chapter so that each CLAP can have it.”
“Our people has given a great demonstration of conscience, and here
we are: smiling, standing, and ready to continue the battle for our country.
We either do it or we do it, because only the revolution can save the people,
only the people save the people and I would add that only the revolution
saves the homeland.”
Nicolás Maduro Moros
President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
Radio show Nº 3, La Hora de la Salsa.

“Now, the most serious challenge that we have to face enthusiastically
is the further design of a new hegemony to counteract the neoliberal model
that wages an economic warfare against the Bolivarian Revolution. That
is the question, comrades, and, in this connection, I want to welcome all
the effort made by Pasqualina Curcio. Here you are her book, the Visible
Hand of the Market, the Economic Warfare in Venezuela. She is adding a new
chapter to it: the Financial Warfare (...).
“I ask for support, I ask for the help of Venezuelan intellectuals, thinkers,
artists, I ask for the help of the Latin American and Caribbean intellectuals
so that they come to support Venezuela in the formulation of the economic
response that allows us to give it a thrashing, a beating, a definitive defeat
to this economic warfare. Undoubtedly, that would be the greatest victory
of the Bolivarian Venezuela, which would broaden the horizons to stabilize
this beautiful project that has taken up the banners of Bolivar bequeathed
by Commander Chavez. ”
Nicolás Maduro Moros
President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
TV show Nº 72, En Contacto con Maduro (In Touch with Maduro)

To Bárbara, Isabella and Sofia, my daughters