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Commentary By Daniel Di Martino

From Venezuela to the Reagan Ranch: How I Left Socialism To Pursue Economic Freedom

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I came to America a little more than six years ago, dreaming about freedom and prosperity after living through the downfall of Venezuela’s economy and society under the heavy weight of socialism.

If you had told me seven years ago, as I was looking to leave Venezuela, that I would be speaking at the Reagan Ranch Center and visiting the ranch where former President Ronald Reagan lived, I wouldn’t have believed you.

Continue reading the entire piece here at the Washington Examiner

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Daniel Di Martino is a grduate fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a Ph.D. student in economics at Columbia University, and the founder of the Dissident Project, a speakers’ bureau for young immigrants from socialist countries.

This piece originally appeared in Washington Examiner