this currency is tied to a government. a failing government. it relies on faith that venezuela will back it. americans who invest in petros will be subject to legal action. zimbabwe tried this years ago, their currency fell through the floor so they marketed a new currency, and the day it came out, it also fell through the floor. back here in the united states, where people do trust the government, president trump is proposing a 13% increase in defense spending. that s an additional $716 billion, with a b, to the pentagon s share of the budget. that s putting america s defense industry in a prime position to profit, especially one company, lockheed martin. last year, lockheed sold $35 billion in aircraft and arms to the u.s. government. that is a huge amount of taxpayer money going to just one
somebody else over there is, like, good at scraping the fur off. somebody else but, everybody s got a function. you know? it s, it goes right back to the first fire. i mean, i ll bring the dip. you know? maya: normally, you hold it like this, and then you have, you put everything you want in here. marcus: okay, cool. anthony: got it. maya: so you guys could take some and then we re going to take it around. anthony: perfect. gomen and ayib are greens, like collards, with a big hit of berbere and ayib cheese. mmm. i like the cheese. it s like a ricotta. marcus: that s right. anthony: lamb kiftu, prepared gurage style. laboriously diced. amazing. maya: this is all, like, innards. anthony: yeah, i got some of that, that s good. that s delicious. marcus: yeah. anthony: this i love without reservation. barbecue, now we re talking. man, what a meal. pretty impressive.
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she was here just last year. it s been four years since they ve seen marcus. maya s mother bezunesh and de facto grandmother owl welcome us. when visitors come, everything starts with coffee. traditionally, it s served here with a bit of salt, not sugar. thank you that s good. maya s story differs from marcus in a lot of ways. it was not disease or famine or poverty that drove her and her brother petros to europe and a new life. it was the brutal reality of politics.
so, who is your father? maya: my dad was my hero and everyone s hero in this i mean everyone, but my brother could explain a little bit more. petros: he was a local chief and also a member of the supreme, or the highest court, you can say. during the haile selassie period he was engaged in more innovative and experimental and mechanized farm. with, during the communist anthony: yes. petros: period. you know, something unexpected happened. anthony: in 1974 emperor haile selassie was deposed and the very unpleasant general mengistu and a hard-lying communist regime called the derg took over the country. as in mao s china, all agricultural property was taken over by the state and broken up into small parcels. petros: everything what my father had, the land, the property, is confiscated.