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Journalist Marcos Schotgues has just returned from an undercover reporting trip to post-Maduro Venezuela. He brings raw insights into how one of Latin America’s richest nations collapsed into authoritarianism, mass hunger, and extreme poverty.

We dig into the country’s leftist history, the global communist network that built and sustained the Chávez and Maduro regimes, and why the U.S. finally decided enough was enough—and plucked Maduro from power.

This is a deep dive into how socialist ideologies crush everyday lives: brutal repression, starvation, and a mass exodus that tears families apart. Yet it’s also a story of profound resilience—a people toughened by hardship who now hold cautious hope as they work to escape authoritarianism for good.

Welcome to Epoch Reports from The Epoch Times—one of America's largest independent media outlets.

Host Benjamin Trenerry talks to Epoch Times Latin America correspondent Marcos Schotgues.

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