I'm John Batchel with my colleague of many years, Mary Kistel, Executive Vice President

Stevenson, Incorporated, former senior advisor to the Secretary of State, Mr. Pompeo, which is why I'm so confident

that I can call upon Mary to what does state do? Where are the departments? Mary's been there.

I just read about it. But I have a success, Mary, that is uniformly not getting attention because it's all positive news.

And here's what it is. The pink tide of many years ago that moving to the left, sometimes

radical left in South America, not only is it stemmed, but the tide is the ebb tide and the

flow tide.

I'll leave that metaphor aside.

We're turning to right of center.

In states that heretofore have been deeply involved with socialism and command economy.

Chile, for example, or Argentina.

And Peru, there's the first round election imminently. Fujimura, the daughter of

a former president, is said to be leading in the polls in Colombia under the control of a man who is

associated with violence and drugs personally and collectively,

Gustavo Petro, he is now facing the possibility that he will be replaced by Valencia,

a woman on the right of center bringing capitalism.

And here's the capstone, Mary.

Venezuela, under the boot of the bullies for decades, Maduro is in New York facing

prosecution for drug trafficking.

His lieutenant, Dulcée Rodriguez, and her brother Jorge, are left in charge back at

the palace.

But the Venezuelans are feeling so confident that the right thing is going to happen, that the opposition will return, that I'm told the resorts on an island that's very favored by the Venezuelans and the whole region, including Americans, Marguerite Island, I believe.

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