Ledn Co-founder On Hyperinflation In Venezuela And Fleeing The Country
Channel: BTC Lighthouse
Date: 21/03/2023

So I'm originally from Venezuela, that's where I was born and raised. And very early on in my life I started experiencing hyperinflation like many people did when Chavez came to the country. Chavez was a president, very polemic president that we had in Venezuela. He came in in 99 and started with a sort of very authoritarian agenda and a very sort of hard left leaning, basically started doing really bad things against private businesses and my family and many others. Kind of saw the writing on the wall and we went to the US. A lot of people in Venezuela at the time thought Chavez was going to be a one term affair, a one term president, and so they wanted to wait out the four years and come back. So we went to Florida. That's where I started learning English. We spent two years in Florida, but Venezuela was going down really fast.