Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

tropics.

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder.

Wish you were here.

Follow the price of Paradise Now, wherever you listen to podcasts. I'm John Batscher New World Report with Ernesto Arrujo, former Foreign Minister

of the Republic of Brazil and Joseph Umar of the Secure Free Society, I begin with the imminent election, that is Venezuela.

It is fraught because the Maduro regime means to win everything. However, we have a report from Reuters

from Caracas, a very gentle-looking man in a pale blue shirt with a tie looking like

everybody's favorite accountant. His name is Amundo Gonzalez and I read that

he's a diplomat and he certainly appears one not threatening and with a pleasant smile. He is the candidate for the opposition

to the violent Maduro regime. He expresses in this interview that he thinks it's going

forward to July 28th because he hasn't

been detained yet.

Joseph, is that enough proof for you?

Well, I mean, to some level, yes, but the regime in Venezuela is always very strategic.

They don't just detain people to detain people.

They always do it at specific times with specific purpose.

A good example is the other members of Maria Karina's team inside her political movement called

Vente, Venezuela.

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