What's your takeaway? Wow. You know, this is an experiment in geopolitics. Can we take a country that for more than 25 years has skidded downhill into criminality, poverty, drug running? 9 million people left Venezuela and for the first time in history, six of those 9 million people left a relatively poor country and moved to poorer countries in South America. That's how bad the situation was in Venezuela. But its impact on our hemisphere, its impact on the United States, gangs, drugs and guns coming in quantities to our country, we figured that has to end. (20:41–20:56)
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Asserts that 9 million people have left Venezuela, with 6 million moving to poorer South American countries.
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