Venezuelan Refugee Explains How Socialist Policies Destroyed His Country

The Daily Signal Podcast

The Daily Signal

News, Government, Politics, Daily News

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Two decades ago, Venezuela was a thriving country. Today, Venezuela is ranked 176th on The Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom, just above North Korea.

How did Venezuela fall from prosperity so quickly? How did socialist policies affect the nation’s economy? Is there any hope for its future?

Jorge Galicia, a refugee from Venezuela and outreach fellow at The Fund for American Studies, joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to answer these questions and describe what it was like to grow up in Venezuela.

Also on today’s show, we cover these stories:

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy calls on the United Nations to remove Russia from its Security Council.
Twitter offers entrepreneur Elon Musk a seat on its board of directors after he becomes the social media company's largest shareholder.
Individuals who live in Palm Springs, California, and identify as transgender or nonbinary are eligible to receive up to $900 a month.

Enjoy the show!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Wednesday, April 6.
0:09.8	I'm Doug Blair.
0:10.8	And I'm Virginia Allen.
0:12.6	Not long ago, Venezuela was a prosperous country.
0:15.8	But today, residents of Venezuela struggled to have enough to even survive.
0:21.0	Jorge Gaelicia was born and raised in Venezuela, and he joins the show today to explain how
0:26.7	socialist policies destroyed his nation.
0:30.3	He also explains why it is detrimental to the people of Venezuela if the Biden administration
0:36.0	purchases oil from the Maduro regime.
0:38.6	But before we get to Virginia's conversation with Jorge Gaelicia, let's hit our top news
0:42.5	stories of the day.
0:55.8	The Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky delivered a passionate speech before the United
1:00.6	Nations on Tuesday.
1:02.4	Zelensky called on the UN to remove Russia from the Security Council in light of evidence
1:08.5	that Russia has executed Ukrainian civilians and committed other violent crimes against
1:14.4	the Ukrainian people.
1:16.2	Zelensky said he sees two options, either remove Russia from the Security Council or dissolve
1:22.3	it altogether, per Yahoo Finance.
1:25.4	You can do two things, either remove Russia, as an aggressor, and a source of war, so
1:32.6	it cannot block decisions about its own aggression, its own war.
1:39.1	And then do everything that we can do to establish peace, or the other option is, please show
1:47.4	how we can reform or change, dissolve yourself, and work for peace, or if there is no alternative
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Daily Signal, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Daily Signal and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.