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So we're going to seize the oil.

We're going to put the pressure on and we're going to use this money essentially as almost like bribes to slowly but surely change the behavior of those in power in Venezuela to be amenable to elections.

Right.

And so that is a, you know, there's like 10 question marks from here to there that we have now inherited as a country because of this gamble.

But yes, theoretically, I see that plan.

So think about it.

They're oil companies, right?

If Chevron gets in there and it starts working, then everyone will fucking jump on board.

Can I do a broader, I heard this guy, Brian Winter, he's an American journalist who did two or three decades in Latin America.

And he ghost wrote the biographies of two Latin American presidents and Pele, the greatest soccer player.

So he's like deep involved.

And he wrote this long piece about what's going on in Latin America.

And a couple of things were eye-opening for me and I wanted to kind of share them.

Yeah.

Which is one is that Latin America for the 70s till now, massive wave of like mostly left leaning politics.

Right.

That's like that.

The key celebrity figure would be like Castro.

And a lot of things were similar to that.

And I feel like Chavez is up there.