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Speaker & Economist from Venezuela living in America

Daniel Di Martino was born in Venezuela to a middle class family. His grandparents escaped poverty in Italy and Spain in the 1950s, seeking a better future in the then 4th richest country in the world, Venezuela. Despite not having a high school education, his family started businesses and prospered under Venezuela’s relatively free market and strong democracy in the second half of the 20th century. But Daniel was born in the same year that Hugo Chavez was sworn in as President and saw how his socialist policies transformed the once prosperous nation that welcomed his grandparents into a poor and dangerous place. His family’s income was drastically reduced due to inflation, blackouts and water shortages increasingly plagued much of his life, and he was forced to line up for food and basic necessities for hours.

In 2016, he left Venezuela to attend Indiana University in Indianapolis thanks to a full-tuition scholarship that is awarded to only one international student per year.

Tomorrow, he will be sitting down with the guys in New York to discuss the current situations in Venezuela, Colombia, Donald Trump and the potential of conflict in the region.