Hare Interviewed on Political Crisis in Venezuela
Amb. Paul Webster Hare, Senior Lecturer at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was interviewed for a widely-syndicated article on the growing political crisis in Venezuela.
Hare was interviewed for a January 26, 2019 article in The Daily Mail entitled “Four Scenarios for Venezuela’s Growing Political Crisis.”
From the text of the article:
Maduro might be able to rely on financial support from allies like China, Russia and Iran, countries “more united by suspicion of US interests than any sympathy for the Venezuelan leader himself,” said Paul Hare of Boston University.
Venezuela delivers some 300,000 barrels of oil a day to China in partial repayment for a debt of $20 billion. It also owes $10.5 billion to Russia, according to several consultancy firms.
Beijing and Moscow could “try to salvage the regime, perhaps by requiring some serious economic reforms and restructuring of the oil business,” Hare said. But the blade is double-edged: they might also demand Maduro’s departure — and his replacement by a “less politically toxic leader.”
Amb. Hare teaches classes at Boston University on Diplomatic Practice, Arms Control, Intercultural Communication and on Cuba in Transition. His novel, “Moncada – A Cuban Story”, set in modern Cuba, was published in May 2010. His book “Making Diplomacy Work; Intelligent Innovation for the Modern World.’ was published in early 2015.