Hi, quick note before we start this week.

While this episode is about Venezuela, a country that recently found itself the focus of our

country's confusing ADHD-inspired imperial ambitions, Greenland has also landed in a similar

spot.

And very surprisingly, we happened to have reported an hour-long documentary about Greenland.

I went to visit there a few years ago to a melting

glacier on a trip with climate change activists and crypto people. Our Greenland story contains

a lot about Greenland's history, just what the place is like. It's very strange. Even ideas

about resource extraction there. The story is absolutely one of my favorite things I've ever gotten to work on.

If you want to hear it, it's called The End.

We'll throw a link to it in our show notes.

That is Greenland.

This week, Venezuela.

After this short break.

I'm gonna Hello, search engine listeners.

This is the final part, part two of our very fascinating, in my opinion, history of Venezuela,

told to us by the platonic ideal of a history professor, Alejandro Velasco.

If you've not yet heard part one, please go listen.

But if you have, we pick up our story where we last left it.

The country's president, Hugo Chavez, star of the TV show Alopresente,

is in an extremely strong position.

The year is 2005.

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