of the conversation as well. the comment section is now nice. let's meet an expert gas joining us from denver, colorado, francisco retreat. this is an economist profess it the university of denver. as joseph coldwell school of international studies joining us from once every day or guy is tamara, tara sick, bona director of the piece at the bell roar of your program at the inter american dialogue. adding portion of d c. monica weiss brought mout is co director of the center for economic policy research in washington d. c. so monkey in a sentence 15 years of sanctions on venezuela. what do we have today? what screened the results? well, the result, the biggest part of the result is the worst decline in you know, worse, depression, really in the history of latin america as francisco will talk about. but i think also these sanctions are a form of economic warfare and they mainly target the civilian population. and that's why they have an impact of that similar to actual wars. and a lot of people noticed, you know, representative gym, a governor who was the chair of the house, a rules committee, when the democrats have the house, he wrote a letter to president biden, and

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denver and it was voter suppression. it had the highest voter turnout in any election in georgia history. that was performed by the university of georgia following the election and asked voters, did you have a problem voting? did you experience voter suppression or difficulty voting? would you like to know the percentage of black citizens of georgia who said yes, i had problems because of this new law and i couldn't vote, would you like to know the percentage of black voters in georgia who said yes to that question? zero said the jim crow 2.0 law attacked by corporate america including major league baseball on highest voter turnout and reported any problems voting so it takes me to a third topic and that is media and its failures on election related issues in america today. if you read the national media and local media, you'll get a steady diet, they gave us a new name -- election deniers. that is a term they call us. after never once denied that there was an election in 2020. i know there's an election, i spent a good bit of time in georgia studying and working on what happened in the election in 2020. here's what i know -- t

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