On this episode of The Rick Smith Show, Rick is joined by economist Francisco Rodríguez, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research and author of The Collapse of Venezuela, to unpack the roots of Venezuela’s economic implosion and the scorched‑earth politics that paved the way for today’s crisis. Then investigative journalist Greg Palast steps in to dig into Donald Trump’s invasion of Venezuela, exposing the real motives, the oil and geopolitical angles, and what it all means for democracy, workers, and the global economy as the drums of war grow louder.

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