El Libertador and Venezuela's Rise and Fall (2019)
Venezuela is facing an economic and humanitarian crisis as extreme poverty and violence have forced many to flee the country in recent years. How did a country once wealthy with oil resources fall into such turmoil? Through the lives of two revolutionaries turned authoritarian leaders separated by two centuries, we look back at the rise and fall of Venezuela.
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El Libertador and Venezuela's Rise and Fall (2019)
August 19, 202112:01 AM ET
[Ramtin Arablouei, co-host and co-producer of Throughline.]
[Tamar Charney, photographed for NPR, 13 November 2019, in Washington DC.]
Victor Yvellez
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