Chavez allowed his regime to engage in illegal trafficking of drugs and people, and he cooperated with Middle Eastern terrorist organizations like Hezbollah and the terrorist state of Iran. This cooperation has only intensified under Chavez successor Maduro. The path of socialism chosen by the Chavistas inevitably led to a failed state that relies on the world's bad actors for survival. The result is one of the worst humanitarian crises in our hemisphere's history. (08:27–08:33)
CLAIM
Asserts that cooperation with terrorist organizations has intensified under Maduro.
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