03/17/2021
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"How can the United States not firmly be on the side of people who are being violated in this systemic way?"
"I view much of the unrest as being driven by kind of an autocratic, oil-dominated economy where corrupt people at the top skim off a lot."
"The changes generally do not get made if the autocrats feel like they can use their natural resource revenues to just kind of keep things limping along."
"When the elections were held and Maduro won over the opposition, I think I was in a tiny camp that was not sure it would be a good for the opposition to win these elections because the accumulated eco..."