To describe the oil in Venezuela we all think is under the control of one entity, and some of it is. But you literally have a place in which certain individuals, The glue that held the regime together was corruption and graft. Like people said, I want to be, I'm supportive of this regime. And they didn't, not because they liked Nicolas Maduro, but because Nicolas Maduro set up a system that guaranteed them a profit. (1:48:55–1:48:59)
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Asserts that corruption and graft held the Venezuelan regime together.
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