Venezuelans rally against dictator Nicolas Maduro, President Trump caves on the State of the Union,

and the MAGA hat wars continue. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

Many things to get to today. We're going to get into the latest on Venezuela because it is

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the pictures are just incredible. Here is a picture from Caracas Venezuela, the capital, where

hundreds of thousands of people poured into the streets in opposition to the evil dictator

of Venezuela, Nicholas Maduro. Maduro, you will recall, took office after the death of Hugo

Chavez, who was also an evil dictator.

For a long time, the left loved them from Hugo Chavez.

They thought that Chavez was just wonderful because Chavez used the oil wealth of the country to even out income, inequality.

He was the one who had cured poverty.

He's the one who had cured the health care system in Venezuela.

Well, now people there are eating dogs because it turns out that when a bad person gets in charge of a top-down, centralized government system, they wrecked the country.

And that happened with Hugo Chavez, and now it's happened with Nicholas Maduro.

Here's what some of the footage looked like from Caracas, Venezuela.

I mean, this footage is astonishing. You can't see the number of people.

I mean, I was just at a, I was just at a rally last Friday with probably half a million people.

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