Mamdani does not stand with Venezuelans — it was Maduro and ‘collectivism’ that destroyed my country |
For years, Venezuela has been a grim testament to what happens when socialism takes over: broken hospitals, rampant crime, mass emigration, and the unpunished proliferation of drug trafficking through a regime that weaponizes misery against its own people and the world to profit and remain in power.
I know this because I lived it. I escaped a country hollowed out by socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chávez.
When I woke up to the news that President Trump had ordered an operation that successfully captured Maduro and his criminal wife to face their existing indictment in the United States, I honestly couldn’t believe it.
I was shaking because of the happiness of the moment, one I had been waiting for my entire life.
My elation at Maduro’s........