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Chris Wright: “Eight million people, the largest outward migration from a…”

Featuring: Chris Wright, Republican | Secretary of Energy | National

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🇺🇸 Conference with Chris Wright, Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy

Published | Video Starts at 43:38

So, you know, Venezuela has just been, you know, 26 years, spiraling down from one of the wealthiest countries in the Western Hemisphere to a country in dire poverty. Eight million people, the largest outward migration from a country in modern history. And the first time that about 6 million of those 8 million people left Venezuela to go to even poorer countries. You know, that's the situation on the ground in Venezuela. (43:38–43:43)

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Asserts that 8 million people have left Venezuela, marking it as the largest outward migration in modern history.

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