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Cuban-born Florida businessman Maximo Alvarez delivers speech at RNC.

One of the most memorable moments from the Republican National Convention came when Cuban-born Maximo Alvarez cautioned Americans against creeping socialism.

The Florida businessman is hardly alone among those who fled socialist countries.

RNC SPEAKER MAXIMO ALVAREZ WARNS BIDEN 'TOTALLY INFLUENCED BY RADICAL PEOPLE'.

“The millionaires, and anyone that was rich, were ‘the enemy of people’ in Venezuela,” Elizabeth Rogliani, a young woman who left Venezuela for America in 2008 and lives in Florida, said of her former country (though she cited a term that President Trump now controversially uses against the media).

Once, before Chavez became president in 1999, Venezuela was the wealthiest country in South America.

Rogliani said that in America, her biggest fear comes not from any one policy proposal – but from the overall culture.

People had been encouraged by Chavez’s rhetoric,” Rogliani said.

Meanwhile, protests and sometimes-related looting that have hit American cities this summer stemmed from anger over racial injustice and police brutality, following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody.

Chavez encouraged such thinking, Rogliani said, because he saw angry mobs as a powerful tool. .

Several Latin American countries have seen an exodus of people fleeing to escape socialism.

are using the red and black flags,” Bendana said, noting Nicaraguan socialist revolutionaries used the same colors.

Among them was Maximo Alvarez.

“I heard the promises of Fidel Castro and I can never forget all those who grew up around me … who suffered and starved and died because they believed those empty promises,” he said in his GOP convention speech in August.

It is the sound of tears hitting the paper of an application to become an American citizen,” he added.

“My dad, who only had a sixth-grade education, told me – don’t lose this place,” Alvarez said of America.

Really?" Biden quipped last month, stressing he wants to keep the country safe from looting as well as “bad cops.”.

Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., a democratic socialist, over his plans for “Medicare-for-All” and other policies.

But the democratic socialist wing’s influence over Democratic Party policies will be closely watched in the months and years ahead.

But it is scary,” she said

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