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Cuba's Ally, Venezuela, Is Now Going Through Its Own Crisis
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Mile-long lines for food, hospitals short of supplies and triple-digit inflation. Cuba after the fall of the Soviet Union? No, it's happening in Venezuela, which helped rescue Cuba after the fall of the Soviet Union.
The crisis has been triggered in part by falling oil prices, and it is pushing anti-government sentiment to a near boiling point. Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd talks to Will Grant of the BBC.
Guest
Will Grant, BBC correspondent. He tweets @will_grant
This segment aired on June 20, 2016.