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The poorest rich country in the world
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Length:
22 minutes
Released:
May 25, 2018
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Podcast episode
Description
Venezuela has been crippled by poverty, starvation, five-figure inflation, and on Sunday, an election that many countries didn’t recognize as legit. Bloomberg’s Patricia Laya shares reactions to Nicolás Maduro’s new term from her base in Caracas before NYU’s Alejandro Velasco explains how having the most oil in the world got Venezuela into all this trouble.
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Released:
May 25, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
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