Hausmann and Naim responsible for “financial blockade”

Nicolás Maduro announced that economist Ricardo Hausmann and political analyst Moisés Naim are lobbying credit rating agencies against Venezuela and thus preventing the country from having access to new credits.

“The aim of these traitors to the Fatherland, these technocrats that were expelled from the country by the revolutionary landslide led by Chávez, is to make [the rating agencies] qualify Venezuela as a high risk country, they go around the world trying to discredit the nation,” claimed Maduro.

He also announced the establishment of a new “Economic War High Command” under the direct control of the president.