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{{Short description|1993 economic history book}}{{Infobox book
| author            = [[Moisés Naím]]
| pub_date          = 1993
| name              = Paper Tigers and Minotaurs: The Politics of Venezuela's Economic Reforms
| language          = Spanish
}}
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'''''Paper Tigers and Minotaurs: The Politics of Venezuela's Economic Reforms''''' is a book published in 1993 by [[Moisés Naím]] about his experience within the cabinet of president [[Carlos Andrés Pérez]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Moisés Naím: "Venezuela es hoy un estado fallido, una economía fracasada y una tragedia humana inenarrable" |url=https://www.revistavanityfair.es/poder/articulos/moises-naim/36956 |website=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]}}</ref> between 1989 and 1990, as well as its explanation of the economic phenomena that occurred during this time and the approach that was made to them as part of a report by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace about the Americas.
According to Naím, who was Minister of Trade and Industry,<ref>{{cite web |date=25 November 2020 |title=Entrevista exclusiva: Moisés Naím, miembro honorario de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias Económicas |url=https://nmidigital.com/entrevista-exclusiva-moises-naim-miembro-honorario-de-la-academia-nacional-de-ciencias-economicas/ |website=Mundo Nuevo Israelita}}</ref> the book is «almost an autopsy (of the [[Second presidency of Carlos Andrés Pérez|presidency]])».<ref name=":1" />
== Title and content ==
Regarding the title, he said in an interview in 2020 that the “[[paper tiger]]s” were “the union forces, those of the private sector, civil society” who had “all kinds of resistance and rejection” to the "very profound structural reforms that change important beliefs and threads of life in society" that they tried to carry out when they were in government.<ref name=":1" /> On the other hand, «the [[minotaur]]s hidden were the [[Bolivarian Army|military]]", to whom "no one in the government paid attention" nor did the rest of "the politicians, the intellectuals, the journalists, the businessmen", who, according to him, they assumed that they were "no longer political actors because Venezuela had already had an experience with [[military dictatorship in Venezuela|military regimes]]", stating that there was a "huge oversight" in not noticing that a faction of the army was planning the attempts of coups d'état of 1992.<ref name=":1">{{cite web |date=25 September 2020 |title=Moisés Naím: "Argentina es campeón mundial en la necrofilia política" |url=https://www.perfil.com/noticias/periodismopuro/moises-naim-argentina-es-campeon-mundial-en-la-necrofilia-politica.phtml |website=Perfil}}</ref>
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