Click here: to donate by Credit Card
Or here: to donate by PayPal
Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794
Thank you very much and God bless you.
Posted on 07/07/2025 6:13:00 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Venezuelan political refugee warns same policies that destroyed his homeland are being championed in America's largest city.
I was born and raised in a country where the government built public housing and converted private housing into communes; where the state managed grocery stores, controlled prices and expropriated the wealth of the "rich" in the name of social justice. Weapons were prohibited and "hate speech" — which is, any criticism of power — was punished by law.
I lived in the dream that a lot of New Yorkers want for their city. And I had to flee to survive.
Growing up in Venezuela meant being raised among ruins and nostalgia — a country suspended in the memory of what it once was, all while enduring the wreckage of what it had become.
VENEZUELAN OPPOSITION MEMBER DETAILS HARROWING 400-DAY CAPTIVITY AT UN
As a teenager, I would go to the grocery store with my mom in search of eggs or corn flour to make arepas, the most traditional breakfast in Venezuela. But time and time again, we’d find the shelves completely empty. I can’t tell you how many times that happened. And every time, she would remind me that years ago, this wasn’t the case — she used to have plenty of options, with multiple brands to choose from. But now, there was nothing. The country she remembered no longer existed.
Venezuela was one of the most prosperous nations on the planet: in 1950 it had the fourth-highest GDP per capita in the world, with foreign investment and a rising middle class.
How did Venezuela go from an oil power to having one of the highest inflations in the world? How does a country reach the point where my father — an economist and owner of a small business — and my mother
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Click here: to donate by Credit Card
Or here: to donate by PayPal
Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794
Thank you very much and God bless you.
Destroying economies for over 100 years.
The people of NYC don’t want to hear it. They demand free stuff and the muzzie promises to give it to them, good and hard.
The rich ones know they can always bail out of the city anyway.
Mamdani is a fan/follower of Hugo Chávez and wants all of Hugo’s disasters
Anyone who goes socialism get a new title OWNED.
Guy needs to have his citizenship revoked and be deported.
I doubt we’ll see this story in the New York Times.
Why shouldn’t he be? Chavez and Maduro lived/ live like kings. They want for nothing.
EC
“You can VOTE your way INTO socialism but you have to FIGHT your way out!” - Unknown
This might be just what the Democrats deserve.
BTTT
BTTT
BTTT
BTTT
BTTT
I heard he wants to build a wall. Sadly it would be like Berlin. To keep people in, not out. I visited east Berlin in the early 60’s. I saw everything I needed to know to keep me against the socialist mind set. But, aoc, nadless, schmuckee, hoch-eem......need I go on?
Yes but they just did not do it right. This time they will get it right. /s
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.