Wall Street’s Venezuela Contrarian Dials Up His Wildest Call Yet
- Rodriguez predicted 2012 presidential and 2015 assembly votes
- Economist has close relationship with Maduro’s rival Falcon
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Francisco Rodriguez relishes playing the role of contrarian pundit in Venezuela. There was the time he boldly, and correctly, predicted Hugo Chavez would comfortably win re-election in 2012, or the time in 2015 he foresaw how the opposition would gain a two-thirds majority in Congress.
But those out-of-consensus calls pale in comparison to the audacity of his current forecast: That President Nicolas Maduro stands a good chance of being defeated in the April 22 election.