Monday’s edition of CNN Right Now with Brianna Keilar featured an undercover report from CNN Senior International Correspondent Nick Paton Walsh detailing the horrors of socialism in Venezuela, even as many Democratic candidates for President romanticize socialist ideas here at home. Host Brianna Keilar prefaced the report by describing the people of Venezuela as “desperate for food and other essentials.” This report aired as the South American nation falls further into turmoil, with Opposition Leader Juan Guaido declaring himself Interim President while socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro refuses to step aside.

Paton Walsh began his report by noting how “oil once made them the richest country in South America but this is now the line for three days and nights to get a full tank,” as the video showed a long line of cars waiting for gas. His report highlighted the consequences of socialism, including hyper-inflation and gang violence as a result of the scarcity of food. Paton Walsh described Venezuela as a “socialist utopia that now leaves nearly every stomach empty.”

Interviewing members of “Maduro’s base,” Paton Walsh explained how “state handouts bought their loyalty for years but now this is all she has to feed four this day,” showing a half empty pot of eggs. Paton Walsh added “they too want Maduro gone.” One of the people Paton Walsh interviewed talked about how “people are killing each other for a kilo of rice, for water.”

Paton Walsh’s report highlighted the difficulty the opposition to Maduro faces as a result of the state military remaining loyal to him. Paton Walsh talked to a junior officer who claimed that “80 percent of soldiers are against the government, some even go to demonstrations. But the big fishes, the senior officers are the ones eating, getting rich, while on the bottom, we have it hard. I get a dollar and half every month promptly, enough for one chicken and a food box from the barracks. Then we have to work magic to make it last, like everyone else.”

Paton Walsh concluded the report by explaining how the United States and Russia have different opinions when it comes to the Maduro government: “as Washington says Maduro isn’t President, but Moscow insists he is, everyone else walks zombielike, further and closer towards starvation.”

CNN deserves a lot of credit for actually blaming socialism for the turmoil in Venezuela; even if it only mentioned the word once. A New York Times report on the start of Maduro’s second term did not make the connection between the implementation of socialism and the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela. When the article actually did mention socialism, it tried to paint the philosophy in a positive light, talking about how “the government built homes, clinics, and schools as part of its socialist policy.” For once, CNN may have actually lived up to its motto, “facts first.”

A transcript of the relevant portion of Monday’s edition of CNN Right Now is below. Click “expand” to read more.