On Friday’s show, Buck brought on filmmaker Ami Horowitz, whose documentary on migrant violence in Sweden, “Stockholm Syndrome,” went viral.
Since then, he’s been shopping his documentary “What’s Wrong With Socialism?” In it, Horowitz travels to Venezuela to see what havoc the government’s move to socialism has wreaked on the countryside.
Horowitz recounted what went into the documentary’s filming.
“Socialism has taken Venezuela and made it a Malthusian state,” Horowitz said. “It’s practically post-apocalyptic. This is among the most dangerous places I’ve ever been to.” (This coming from the man who traveled to one of the most violent sections of Sweden to film the above.)
“When you first arrive at Caracas International Airport, there’s no lights. Nobody’s home. Then in order to get into the city, they tell you “under no circumstances should you step outside your hotel.'”
“At first blush, things look very normal, until you notice: it’s a country of lines. Supermarkets, drug stores, the lines go block after block after block. And that’s because they’re rationing everything.”
“That’s disturbing enough,” Horowitz continued, “but what’s really disturbing is the violence. We were held up. Robbed, but not harmed in any way.”
Horowitz described watching a man be gunned down, then ignored by a police officer, an incident which was caught on tape.
“Our fixer, the person who guaranteed our safety, she was shot outside of her home after we left. It’s hard to describe the depths this country has sunk to. It really is.”
Horowitz recounted some of the difficult decisions Venezuelans need to make as they slide into poverty and starvation.
“There’s a sense of desperation, an absolute sense of desperation. All the people who were middle class are now in poverty. There were some who described deciding between staying home with their baby or going to stand in line to try to get food at six o clock in the morning.”
Worst of all, Horowitz believes the wrong enemy is being blamed.
“They’ve learned the wrong lesson in Venezuela. You’d think they want less socialism. Instead, they said, we need somebody to take care of us better. And it’s heartbreaking, because they’re never going to fix that kind of attitude.”
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