But could that become a weak point for the Republican Party if this fear continues to grow for the possible loss of jobs, as well as other points? What I see so far is that the issue has even divided some members of the Republican Party.

There, the important thing is in the communication strategy, in explaining to Americans the benefits of artificial intelligence and also the almost existential need to defeat China in this aspect, which is the issue not only of the year, it is the issue of the decade and probably of our generation.

as it was in the 60s and 70s, space development and being able to reach the Moon before the Soviet Union, and that was even a bipartisan effort that was achieved, starting with Kennedy, continuing with Lyndon B. Johnson, even being finalized by Nixon.

And yes, there is skepticism, there are doubts, there are questions from a group of the American public, in fact, different surveys, even Gallup shows that 39% of Americans consider that artificial intelligence generates more damage than benefit, and that is why the strategy and the need for an effective communication strategy is there.

How to explain to Americans that artificial intelligence is going to become a tool that is going to allow us greater economic development, greater scientific advances, and that it is okay to be skeptical and have logical concerns, but that every important technological development, every revolution that has existed until now, since the capitalist era in the last 200 years, has always meant in macro terms something positive for economies and that we cannot allow China to dominate this sphere.

Entonces, ¿fue ese voto de los hispanos realmente un giro ideológico hacia la derecha o más bien simplemente un voto de castigo por la alta inflación que dejó el gobierno Biden, así como las fronteras abiertas?

That's an excellent question.

First, the Hispanics are not a monolithic group, but it varies according to the context and the election.

But tell me about your story about how you got to the place where you are right now.

Yeah, so it is a long story.

As you said, I was born and raised in Venezuela, what used to be the richest and wealthiest country in Latin America.

Quite frankly, even one of the most successful in the Western Hemisphere.

I didn't get to see that.

My parents saw a different country, of course.

People don't know this, but yes, in the 1950s, Venezuela had the fourth largest economy.

So what's my question here? What do you make of that?

¿Crees que figuras como él, que son tan radicales que hasta algunos demócratas moderados, porque ya parecen moderados otros, se oponen a él, podrían ganar ya en una elección general en noviembre? ¿O más bien llegaría a asustar al electorado moderado y conservador y los incentiva a verdaderamente salir y ejercer su derecho al voto, no quedarse en casa?

La impresión-- Sí, la impresión inicial que yo tengo es que esto puede beneficiar al candidato republicano en Michigan, Rogers, porque muchos votantes independientes, aunque puedan ser críticos de Donald Trump o de los republicanos en un momento puntual, al ver el radicalismo de esta persona, quizá termine inclinándose la balanza hacia el candidato conservador.

Pero no pequemos de creer que ese tipo de comportamiento electoral puede ser duradero a largo plazo.

Al final, el votante no siempre es ideológico, muchas veces es emocional y el voto castigo es algo que tiene mucho peso.

Así que opciones como estas por supuesto que pueden gobernar a nuestro país.

Y es por eso que también hay que reconocer, por ejemplo, a Abdul, a Zohram Mamdani como síntomas, no como la enfermedad, sino como síntomas.

La enfermedad en el Esta-- en Estados Unidos es un resultado de años de adoctrinamiento, de subversión ideológica, de lo que los jóvenes están escuchando en las universidades, en las escuelas que se les está enseñando a odiar su país.

Y es justamente lo que la administración Trump, el presidente, continúa insistiendo en que se apruebe el SAVE Act.

Dígame qué opinas sobre el hecho de que Diosdado Cabello siga siendo una figura clave en el gobierno venezolano a pesar de tener una recompensa sobre él de 25 millones de dólares.

Bueno, primero es que, como me siento, me da pesar porque Diosdado Caballero es una persona que le ha causado mucho daño a los venezolanos.

Es una persona en la cual no se puede confiar y es de hecho por eso que los Estados Unidos puso 25 millones de dólares a información que lidera su captura.

Lo que está sucediendo siendo que en la Casa Blanca también existe, sobre todo en política exterior, dos fracciones muy importantes.

Una fracción que es probablemente la línea más de J.D. Vance o la de Richard Grenell, que es una visión más aislacionista.

Y también está la otra visión, un poco más copiando el estilo incluso de Ronald Reagan en su momento, de paz a través de la fuerza, que representa más la visión del secretario de Estado Marco Rubio.

Y estas visiones justamente llevan a que las formas en las cuales se trata el tema Venezuela puedan a veces parecer contradictorias.

Cambiando un poco de tema, ¿cuál es su opinión frente al anuncio del secretario de Estado, Marco Rubio, de que el esperado proceso de transición democrática en Venezuela comenzaría a principios de agosto y cómo influirá esto en este momento tan decisivo para la crisis política del país?

¿Serán los demócratas realmente capaces de cambiar de rumbo?

They are not.

In fact, they are already losing.

What we saw in the last primaries, both in New York and in Colorado, is that moderate candidates from the Democratic Party are being defeated by the radicalism and extremism of candidates who even openly say that they are socialists and that they promote extremely nefarious and terrible policies.

In fact, Donald Trump was very, very clear when he said they are not social democrats and it is a political strategy that they have taken, that is, they want to apply the model of Norway, of Sweden, but when you see their proposals, they are more the proposals of Cuba, of Venezuela and obviously policies that would impoverish the Americans.

And here in the United States, we are seeing how youth, mainly, doesn't understand what socialism is, communism.

That's right, and it's because they are being indoctrinated in schools and it's also because socialists have worked for a long period of time.

This socialist emergence is not happening only in the last two or four or five years.

Uh, I mean, it's fascinating and, and, uh, le- let's start there.

there.Yes.

I mean, I was born and raised in Venezuela, but a trip to the United States when I was only six years old changed my life forever.

I didn't know anything about politics.

I didn't understand economics.

But even though the situation in Venezuela was getting worse because of socialism, my parents, through honest hard work, took me to a vacation here.

And again, I didn't know anything about politics, but I knew I was witnessing something different.

Let's all try it" because you know better.

Let's all try it because you know better.

It's very scary because when I made it to the US, it was a difficult situation for me.

And I made it here legally, of course, because I had just been accused of being a terrorist in my country.

But for the first time, I was able to live in a free country.

But then sooner I realized that there is a political movement, there is a political platform in this country, the greatest country on earth, that is promoting the same policies that destroyed Venezuela.

Venezuela is a great example because it has the largest oil reserves and it's also a country that used to be the richest in Latin America.

So when you hear people say now, you know, we could try socialism.

Tell us about your affiliation with PragerU, and where can we find some of your content that you're making for PragerU?

I just want to get your perspective as someone who is here pretty recently from Venezuela on this situation.

No, to make things super clear, I never received a TPS.

I went through other immigration process and I never get that benefit.

I didn't get that benefit.

One problem that the TPS has is that it's supposed to be temporary.

It has it on the name.

But in practice, it's been an eternal immigration program.

So what's PragerU's role exactly in the... putting together the welcome

Franklin, ¿qué nos dice este caso sobre el capitalismo estadounidense cuando hasta trabajadores de cafetería y soldadores pueden convertirse en millonarios gracias a la participación accionaria de una empresa? Y te lo pregunto porque cuántas veces no escuchamos que el Partido Republicano solo beneficia a los ricos.

This speaks precisely that capitalism is for everyone, for everyone who makes the right decisions.

It is about having freedom to decide your future.

4,000 workers at this moment have become rich people because they had financial decisions and labor decisions that were the right ones.

They put their pockets and gave them trust in SpaceX.

They had a boss, in this case a businessman with a brilliant mind who gave them that opportunity.

and now they can have an excellent, grandiose life and that of their children too.

Ahora, ¿qué mensaje crees que envía esto a los jóvenes sobre asumir riesgos y trabajar en empresas innovadoras como esta en lugar de buscar seguridad laboral, pues más tradicional? Creo que hasta cierto grado les cambia un poco el chip, ¿no?

Franklin, ¿qué refleja el ascenso del republicano Spencer Pratt en el ámbito político como el de la ciudad de Los Ángeles, una ciudad tan, tan demócrata? O sea, ¿qué suceso o qué fue lo que cambió esa dinámica política en la ciudad?

Un descontento, lidiar con la realidad de Los Angeles al día a día.

Hablamos de crimen, crímenes de propiedad, personas sin hogar abrumadoramente en las calles consumiendo drogas, la suciedad, la falta de infraestructura, los negocios abandonando la segunda ciudad más importante de los Estados Unidos después de Nueva York.

Incluso cuando uno ve a los principales candidatos, son tres candidatos, dos demócratas de izquierda y está Spencer Pratt, Karen Bass, who is currently the mayor, is only receiving a third of the votes.

That says that even people on the left say, you know what, Karen Bass has not done a good job.

At the same time, Spencer Pratt is showing how to run a campaign effectively in a city that is progressive.

There are even Democrats who are supporting Spencer Pratt because he is exposing a project that is about common sense.

now what is happening with the Latino vote there?

Franklin, luego de abandonar Venezuela, ¿qué significó para ti sentir libertad acá en Estados Unidos?

Algo que no había sentido antes, la-- definitivamente.

Hay de hecho una frase de Ronald Reagan que yo creo que encaja perfectamente.

Él estaba conversando con un cubano y el cubano le decía que en, que en Cuba no habían oportunidades, que había opresión, que él tuvo que huir.

Y Ronald Reagan, mientras escuchaba su historia sobre Cuba, le decía: "Guau, la verdad tenemos suerte aquí en los Estados Unidos".

Y el cubano le respondía: "Tú tuviste suerte, suerte tuve yo que pude huir a los Estados Unidos y tener libertad".

Y Ronald Reagan utilizaba ese caso para decir: "Si perdemos libertad en los Estados Unidos, no hay lugar al que podamos escapar.

¿Cómo te sientes, eh, tras ver que el país donde buscaste refugio es ahora el que también te dio esa oportunidad de graduarte, de obtener esa maestría, como bien dices, de prácticamente reconstruir tu vida?

Then, of course, we can move to the destabilization here at home.

Yes.

So, well, first, uh, when I first came to America, I was only six years old, and I didn't know anything about politics.

I didn't know anything about economics.

But I understood something very clearly.

This country was special.

It was different.

So when you take that and you juxtapose it with how the Maduro administration, or regime I should say, uh, attempted to destabilize the United States, attempted to infiltrate and, and cause a lot of chaos in certain aspects of the United States of America, how did that come about? And, and from your perspective, what have you seen along the progress that has now hopefully been halted?

So you're sitting, uh, for people who are listening to this on audio, he's sitting in front of a sign that says, "Capitalism makes, socialism takes." How do you explain that to young people?

Yeah.

So this is very simple, right? Socialism is an ideology that wants to control the means of production.

And people generally think that just nationalizing big industries and, and, and big, uh, businesses, but it's gonna take your money too, and it's gonna go after you.

My family went from being a middle class family, uh, small business owner...

My dad had a small makeup store in a mall.

And we went from a family that was j- coming to the US on vacation, I went to Disney when I was six years old, and actually that trip changed my life forever because it showed me what freedom looked like, when I, I went back to Venezuela where I was living because we first only came for tourism.

Mm-hmm.