Hey, everybody. This is Adam. Welcome back to our trip down memory lane, revisiting all the episodes

where we talked about the country of Venezuela and the possibility that the United States

government could take drastic action in that country someday. And boy, did the U.S. government do that recently.

And we are still seeing how that is all going to shake out. Just a heads up, we will be back

to posting new episodes next week. I'm feeling a little better in terms of being able to do actual work. There are still

more Venezuela episodes to repost. So we'll be doing that next week also. It's just that there

will also be new episodes. We just recorded the next episode of the Monday show, as I record this, which is yesterday.

As you listen to this, this episode we're reposting, is the second ever episode of a short-lived podcast called Good Luck America that I co-hosted with Chetwile.

It's a podcast that was all about American politics. And here's the thing.

That good luck? It never happened. It's all been bad. But this episode is interesting because it is

specifically about the opposition party in Venezuela. All the episodes we've reposted so far,

we've made it pretty clear that the Maduro regime

is a bit of a problem, to put it mildly. They are not the most uncorrupt regime. That's for

damn sure. The problem is the opposition party that everyone is clamoring to put back in place isn't much better.

They're just more beholden to U.S. business interests.

And this episode is about that opposition party and a moment in Venezuelan history called Caracasso, or sometimes called the Caracazo riots of 1989,

which were a series of protests that turned a little bit violent because the ruling party

at the time, the opposition that we so desperately want to put back in place,

had driven the finances of the country into such a horrifying state that people were eating dog food to survive.

And fast forward to present day, we're making fun of Venezuela for suggesting people should breed rabbits to eat.

Sounds better than dog food.

That's what the opposition party drove the country to by 1989.

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