Anya Parampil - Hausmann hypocrisy: Guaido coup official raked in dollars from dictators and banking behemoths while promoting ‘democracy’ for Venezuela

Ricardo Hausmann slammed banks for doing business with Venezuela’s elected government. But financial disclosure forms filed with Harvard show the putsch-plotting economist earned fees from kings, dictators, and military occupiers.

There is no democracy, the world is run by oligarchs. Behind the scenes this goes on. 

Hausmann was compensated for speeches and consulting services he performed for governments around the globe, from Peru (2012) to Brazil (2015) to Kazakhstan (2014 and 2015). 

Kazakhstan was ruled by one man, Nursultan Nazarbayev, from 1991 until this March. 

As someone who blasted investment bankers at Goldman Sachs for propping up what he viewed as the dictatorial Venezuelan government through its “morally indefensible” act of purchasing the country’s debt in 2017, Hausmann’s willingness to deal with some of the world’s most un-democratic regimes, including an outright religious theocracy, is hypocritical at best.

In a normal, ethical governing structure, opaque practices like these could result in scandal, investigations, and worse. But if the saga of Trump’s coup attempt in Venezuela has demonstrated anything, it’s that Guaido’s “government” and those who comprise it are anything but ordinary.

Anya Parampil - Hausmann hypocrisy: Guaido coup official raked in dollars from dictators and banking behemoths while promoting ‘democracy’ for Venezuela