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Speaker 1: The Washington Post just ran a long article title From

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Speaker 1: Riches to Rags, and it's about Venezuela. Venezuela used to

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Speaker 1: be one of South America's wealthiest nations, but now is

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Speaker 1: one of the poorest. The Post describes how this oil

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Speaker 1: rich country is Latin America's new underclass because it's buckling

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Speaker 1: under the weight of Venezuela's descent into socialism. There's no food,

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Speaker 1: there's no electricity, there's no money. Every day, five thousand

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Speaker 1: people flee the country trying to escape starvation. In the

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Speaker 1: last two years, two million have fled, another two million

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Speaker 1: will leave this year. Women women risk being raped and

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Speaker 1: attacked by smugglers, members of the upper class, skilled professionals.

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Speaker 1: They are abandoning their property, taking jobs as day laborers

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Speaker 1: in other countries. But life is worse for those who

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Speaker 1: stay in Venezuela. It's also totally predictable, and I did

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Speaker 1: predict it when Hugo Chavez came to power back in

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Speaker 1: But our brilliant liberal elite, including Hollywood stars, praised Chabez

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Speaker 1: and has chosen six us her socialist dictator, Nicholas Maduro.

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Speaker 1: American liberals always celebrate socialism, just as they're doing today

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Speaker 1: in the Democrat Party because they see it as total power.

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Speaker 1: Even though it fails every time it's tried, they still

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Speaker 1: think it hasn't been tried by the right people with

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Speaker 1: the right amount of money, m