Actor and race merchant John Leguizamo’s most recent appearance on CNN’s Laura Coates Live demonstrates the risks inherent to booking actors to say their own words as opposed to words written for them by someone else.
Watch as Leguizamo closes the segment out by blaming U.S. sanctions for the longstanding humanitarian crisis in Venezuela that basically forces those who can to flee the country:
JOHN LEGUIZAMO: I also want to say something that- America caused a lot of this Venezuelan immigration problem.
LAURA COATES: Hmmm.
LEGUIZAMO: The sanctions that we put in Venezuela are so…killing of an economy and destroying their economy. And that’s why there’s the runaway immigration from Venezuela. Because they can’t eat, they can’t- they can’t survive. And that’s all Americans done- and England. Because it’s sitting on the biggest oil reserves in the…
