Carolina Journal opinion editor David Larson recently sat down with Daniel DiMartino to talk about his group, which speaks to students across U.S. about the dangers of totalitarianism, and about how socialism took his native Venezuela from being the fourth wealthiest nation in the world to now having the world’s largest refugee crisis.
Dissident Project’s Daniel DiMartino speaks with CJ about how socialism destroyed his native Venezuela
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