Joshua Philipp

Gangs work with gangs.

Well, so basically you have to understand what the Venezuelan economy is.

The Venezuelan economy, they were one of the top rising economies in the entire world, wealthiest country in Latin America.

Chavez came in, basically destroyed it all, right?

And then Maduro dealt with the final impact when the thing finally hit the ground.

You know what I mean?

It was, I think, the fifth largest economic collapse without a war like we've ever seen.

They were a wonderful country decimated by dumb socialist policies.

But a lot of their economy was in oil.

So they were an oil tycoon country, like the Saudis of the South, basically.

Bad business deals, socialist policies wrecked all of it.

The other core part of their economy is drugs.

And between drugs and oil, that's about all they got, right?

The U.S.

sanctions on, again, Venezuelan oil, they do a lot of stuff with China and they have like black ships.

They call them black ships.

They turn their trackers off and they go dark and help, you know, they violate sanctions, basically.

The same thing.

So they do that to kind of get around the sanctions, but they can only do it so much.

Drugs are a huge part of their economy.