Falling oil prices hit Venezuela, Iran and Russia hard
As oil prices continued to plunge last week, it was instructive to watch the disparate reactions of three governments whose whopping losses are likely to produce some of the biggest international stories of 2015. There was the panicked scrambling of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who skipped his own state of the union speech for in search of loans or promises of $100 oil. He got neither, even as about whether he would be allowed to stay in office on his return./ Jackson Diehl is deputy editorial page editor of The Post. He is an ...
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