Fareed Zakaria
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Hugo Chavez one day crippled the estimate of Venezuela's...
Chavez is a bit like Trump that way.
We're not getting the good numbers?
Yeah.
I love the cal classifications.
The stuff we produce is called light sweet.
And theirs is heavy, crude.
Who wants that?
Yeah.
But also, right now, they're exporting 1% of the world's petroleum.
They're 21st.
So they're going to be able to do more.
But the whole idea of some gold mine, which is why the CEO of Exxon, in front of the television cameras, tells Trump, Venezuela is currently uninvestable, which means if you want us to invest, the US government is going to have to give us guarantees.
You know, this is the new form of capitalism that we're embracing.
You know, for the United States, for America, it's always been very hard to understand other people's nationalism.
In other words, we are very proud nationalist patriots, right?
But then when you go to Vietnam and they're like, we want our country.
We just don't understand that.
We're like, no, no, no.
We are going to give you a better system.