Venezuela is currently serving as a warning to the world of what happens when socialism takes over. Venezuela's "President" Nicolás Maduro runs his authoritarian regime with an iron fist, with help from cartels and communists from around the world. Maduro lost the recent election by a large margin, but he has falsified the results, and he refuses to step down. Maduro has jailed his political opponents, more than 2,000 people have been arrested, and over 20 assassinations have occurred in the last two weeks alone. Our guest this week, Francisco Marquez, is a Venezuelan lawyer, political commentator, and former political prisoner who was jailed for four months for opposing Maduro. Hear the inside story of how a once-great country has fallen so far into tyranny and the hope for it to return to democracy on this episode of "Rick & Bubba University."

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