Suffice it to say that this was not a normal system. We all should stipulate to that. Okay. That The regime, as everyone understood, was held together by corruption. The glue that kept people together was not loyalty to Maduro. It was the fact that these five guys had five separate oil fields that were assigned to them. (29:38–29:42)
CLAIM
Asserts that the Venezuelan regime was maintained through corruption.
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