Venezuela on the Brink
Our guests are Luis Cirocco and Dr. Rafael Acevedo, two Venezuelans who attended Mises University, last week. Their report from that troubled country is chilling and depressing: food shortages, a lack of medical care and prescription drugs, soldiers and police running black markets, and an entrenched elite made rich after decades of crony socialism under Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro. Oil prices remain very low, and the country's economy is so bad that civil war looms.
But our guests remind us that the opposition, pushed by the US CIA, is hardly better—"socialist lite," as they term…
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