Jack Ryan Is Lying About Venezuela
Channel: Foundation for Economic Education
Date: 2020-01-09

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Amazon Prime's Jack Ryan, Season 2 does the world a tremendous disservice by using the real-life tragedy in Venezeula as the backdrop for its drama while ignoring the ideology that causes nothing but misery, poverty, and social collapse.

Find out how Venezuela went from the 4th richest country in the world to one of the poorest in only a few generations, on this episode of Out of Frame.
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CREDITS:
Written & Produced by Sean W. Malone
Edited by Arash Ayrom & Sean W. Malone
Asst. Edited by Jason Reinhardt

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LINKS:
--From the Foundation for Economic Education--
https://fee.org/articles/you-cant-deny-that-venezuela-is-a-socialist-calamity/
https://fee.org/articles/venezuela-has-made-it-impossible-to-run-a-business-and-illegal-to-stop/
https://fee.org/articles/venezuela-has-lost-13-of-its-population-in-a-mass-exodus-from-socialism/
https://fee.org/articles/what-life-inside-venezuela-s-crumbling-authoritarian-regime-looks-like/

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