Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez has a fanatical following at home as a fiery, anti-US leader, but his outbursts have always been taken with a pinch of salt abroad. After all, the US is the main buyer of Venezuela’s oil, its chief export. But Chávez’s new posturing as a virulent anti-capitalist has more than a few investors concerned.
A series of financial controls on bank interest rates, currency trading and oil investments, and a contentious land reform programme that is jeopardizing property rights are now backing up what for much of Chávez’s six-year rule has been just rhetoric.
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