Economic Problems of Venezuela under the Global Financial Crisis

 Economic Problems of Venezuela under the Global Financial Crisis
 

Presented by
Teodoro Petkoff

Teodoro Petkoff is a Venezuelan journalist, economist and politician, as well as the editor-in-chief and founder of "Tal Cual", a newspaper critical of President Hugo Chávez.  Throughout the 1960's Mr. Petkoff was an active member of the Venezuelan Communist Party.  In 1971 he co-founded the MAS - Movimiento al Socialismo, the Social Democratic Party of Venezuela.  Mr. Petkoff has also been a presidential candidate, and an elected congressman.  In 1996 he became Minister of the Central Office of Coordination and Planning under the presidency of Rafael Caldera, where he was responsible for the economic policies of the administration.  After his tenure in the Caldera administration, he became director of the newspaper El Mundo and later went on to become the founder of "Tal Cual".