six months or so ago, if i had known that the americans were going to go and ask maduro for a favour and that maduro would respond by considering doing them a favour, i would have thought that was just fantasy. one of the crucial elements of this political movement that has been in powerfor 22 years in venezuela is anti imperialism the idea that the united states is a bad influence for the region. chavez suffered a coup in 2002. he thought that the united states was behind that. since then, he got very close to castro, to cuba to russia, in fact and his whole idea of anti imperialism became a crucial element of his political movement. but then in the past three years, well in the past five years, we have seen a terrible crisis in venezuela that includes these financial and economic sanctions to the economy and to the government and have generated a lot of suffering
i would have thought that was just fantasy. one of the crucial elements of this political movement that has been in powerfor 22 years in venuzuela is anti imperialism, the idea that the united states is a bad influence for the region. chavez suffered a coup in 2002 and he thought that the united states was behind that. since then he got very close to castro, to cuba, to russia, in fact. and his whole idea of anti imperialism became a crucial element of his political movement. but then in the past three years, while in the past five years, we have seen a terrible crisis in venuzuela that includes these financial and economic sanctions to the economy and to the government and have generated a lot of suffering for many venezualans. so i think that maybe have triggered this pragmatism that i was talking about
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