Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s exclusive: Coups, sanctions & vaccine solidarity

For more: The nation with the largest proven oil reserves is now shifting to a non-oil economy. In this no-holds-barred edition of “Leaders Talk,“ Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro describes how U.S. sanctions and blockades have forced the oil economy to focus on the real economy instead, with non-petroleum sectors expanding for the first time in 120 years. The former bus driver who became the “driver“ of the nation also talks of the U.S. treating Latin America and the Caribbean as its own backyard and the over 100 coups the continent has suffered in 100 years. But #Venezuela will not be deflected from its development path, which includes improving neighborly ties and South-South cooperation. And #China gets kudos for sending its “best experts and scientists“ as well as vaccine doses and test equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the U.S. prevented drug sales to Venezuela and Europe was busy hoarding masks and vaccines for its own us