The Tom Woods Show, episode 1119.

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Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. We're talking about Venezuela today with our guest, Jose

Nino, who was born in Venezuela, moved to the United States as a child.

He's a political activist. He's a contributor at the American Institute for Economic Research.

And he's got a tremendous archive of articles on Latin America, on Venezuela in particular,

and indeed on a wide variety of topics. And I will be linking to his archives at tomwoods.com slash 1119.

Jose, welcome to the show.

Thank you for having me on, Tom.

You've got such a great article archive.

And it's not just on Latin America.

You've covered all different topics.

But wow, is this a great series of pieces that you've

written? And then particularly on Venezuela, what great backgrounders these are for ignoramus like me,

who just don't know much other than the headlines that we read. So it's so valuable what you've

done, and I'm so glad that you're here to talk to us about it.

I want to clear up some things because when you try to talk about Venezuela, you get a lot of the usual kinds of defenses that you get when there's any failed socialist experiment or state.

It's, well, it's not really socialism. It's capitalism.

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