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You know that we had huge news out of Venezuela just last week.

The president of the United States, he authorized a mission to go in, an incredibly

successful mission to go in and take the man who had claimed to be the president of the country

and was illegally holding that post. We call him the dictator of Venezuela, Maduro,

but he is now, now he is not there anymore. And that has been welcome news to many of the Venezuelans in Venezuela, but also across the world.

And so we have someone with us today who has a lot of experience not only living in Venezuela, but also talking about what it means economically in a country like Venezuela and what it means economically for the

rest of the world. So I'm pleased to say that we have Jorge Jurisadi with us today. He is the

president of the nonprofit, the Economic Inclusion Group. And as I said, he's a Venezuelan native.

Jorge, thank you so much for visiting with us today on the Tudor Dixon podcast.

Thank you very much.

Thank you for having me.

We were talking just before we got on about your history.

You grew up in Venezuela.

So really, it's been about 30 years since we saw the shift in the country from what was one of the wealthiest countries in the world, correct? Yes, Venezuela.

In the 1980s, for example, was one of the 20s richest countries in the world, and now is one

of the poorest in the region.

So really Venezuela exemplifies how a country can fully collapse.

I think people really need to understand that, though, because we were hearing, I would say, probably just about five years ago,

people started to say it's become so bad in Venezuela. People are giving up their family pet or actually eating their family pet because there's no food left. And I know that sounds

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