Chaos and Suffering in Venezuela

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 7, 2018

John Otis, freelance journalist who covers Venezuela for NPR and The Wall Street Journal, talks about Venezuela's plans to launch a new currency in an attempt to get control of the crippling inflation and resulting economic crisis. Otis talks about this and this weekend's assassination attempt- by-drone of the President, Nicolás Maduro.

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