funny to us the, you're watching the domain using berlin up. next we have a look at independence, wayland leader and nicholas, missouri, and his government. i'm here until berlin. thanks for joining us. the my name is elizabeth, i'm the coles bag said wow, thank you so much for joining in. welcome to don't hold bad. a lot of people do that. it's all about saying it's loud. as would have been nosy bay, like get everyone talking to me. you're healthy award winning called call. don't hold back. this story begins just 9 days after the russian invasion of ukraine as an american

delegation makes a discreet landing at the airport in caracas, the capital of venezuela. the they have a face to face meeting with the president. nicholas my little less than that, i will say ok mode will get a get when russia invaded ukraine. nicholas, my daughter used oil to gain new influence on the political world stage and put that on the load up with a way to find out most to know that i'm publicizing this meeting with the united states to do or wanted to show that venezuela could replace the supply from russia, so we need to have those russian oil had just been embargoed by the west. the universal concern is that the cost of oil will skyrocket as a result of is really on the mind. and of the white house was they wanted to

get world prices down their point of view with uh, the war against ukraine already underway. if they could get more venezuelan oil onto the market and for the 2022 election biden would not suffer politically. it was a historic diplomatic u turn for us diplomacy for almost 25 years. the us and venezuela were foes. the tone was unrelenting. virtually everywhere socialism or communist ledges, suffering corruption and decay. donald trump hung up the phone and i think maybe happy they made up the the us put a price on the doors head. they were held bent on ousting this hero of the socialist revolution. during the great frontier already will be smashed and broken

due to his opponents consider him the grave digger of venezuelan democracy means that the soldiers stopped me from going into parliament. i had declined the gate by the way. his country is bankrupt. there were assassination attempts, but he held his grip on power line, select the bottom, which we owe on days to make him go see if he's very skewed. as is shown by the fact that he's feeling powerful there sanctioned by the international community. all he has had to rely on or his allies in russia, china and the ron and his immense oil reserves. but when he appears to be vanquished, rises like a phoenix from the ashes, the

to get in. so got the data and so the solo g job vi in 19 seventies venezuela, the american dream was in full swing. the country was then the richest in all of latin america. thanks to its oil reserves. the vino boy people lick named it the saudi arabia of latin america, venezuela was the biggest exporter of oil in the world. everyone lives off coil, as in all the big oil powers. it was the driver of the country's economy at the time. remember before 1976, most of venezuela's oil production was controlled by the major international oil companies. texaco exxon chevron. when i was in the

venezuela for the 1st time, i could sit in my apartment building and, and watch the oil tankers coming in and out. venezuela produced 3000000 barrels of oil a day. it was a tremendous money making operation for the venezuelan government. for the united states, the country was invaluable as an ally. and all the while venezuela drilled more and more wells. the country had immense wealth, but its distribution was profoundly on equal cm dot on a task is not made easy docs that i can when they go down. so they're kind of like us, was a big, thriving city as were minor cargo in valencia. but next to them was a large number of the villas and very poor areas. the a makes well, wasn't reaching the population though another hand for the majority of the people,

poverty was overwhelming. this deep rooted, any quality would prove to be fertile ground for an uprising that would bring the system to its knees. the hour of revolution had come and leading the charge was colonel gold chavez, the after and the board to attend. julio chavez won the presidential election in 1998 and launched his socialist revolution the and beside him, out of the line like steward his future right hand man. because my doodle, the job as wanted to transform the country. and he was counting on oil to fund his ambitious social projects. he installed one of his close associates at the top of

the oil industry. by end of the me, this would become one of the most powerful people in the country. when we're done in what's your phone, your own you through main, the c o o the is it the audio check on me to do me to remain so anyway, to see on them it's a different then. yeah, the further the silica thanks to oil money more the 9000000 families have access to social housing bill by chavez, going to university was within reach for working class people for the 1st time around was you i left over a so the thing has we brought the poverty rate down from the 70, which was 7 percent on nice. these were incredible social advances and we bought that google job as turned global politics upside down. because my little became his minister of foreign affairs, orchestrating close relation ships with cuba,

russia and iran. you're going to see, i think, what i'm of the new nicholas madura when i was the young officer and the security detail of who go shop is the man. i mean, you nicole, a lot of that time nicholas madura was elected as a member of the national assembly display. then he became president of the assembly . and finally he was appointed as minister of foreign affairs for chavez, that he was his errand boy. they were jerry but who go chavez? his health was failing. ready in december 2012, his illness cancer pushed him to name a successor, hardship in the savannah. around the table, he assembled his closest disciples. next to chavez and my doodle was oil minister, f i l. i mean is david lee

hon. i need to go look at a few they will be coming. anybody, i guess it will be the better for the a few days later, google job is got on a plane to havana. never to be seen in public again, the 3 months later, his state funeral became an election campaign platform. the only need a p as in think what people should i on the side of the can you call us my little one. the

election by a hair was bred with 50 points, 6 percent of the votes, and a twist of fate. he defied his detractors predictions and became president of the republic. mister, my daughter will a man who is selected to be vice president because he did not have the intelligence the, the ability, the talent, the skill to be a threat to do the, the sitting president finds himself now as the president of venezuela in the beginning, no one would have bet on nicholas my doodle. who began his career driving a bus the i'm a little in get a soul. i probably can. the dog started off working at the transport company,

incorrect because that address, it gave me this, allowed him to construct the middle of nicholas madura the bus driver's wonderful position himself as a worker president, i can look at it. uh, i use it, but i see the in the moon, but i see that that's the story of nicholas madura and then he called on my little my doodle grew up in a working class neighborhood of caracas. university was never on the cards for him . hardy membership proved to be his salvation. or you mean bully grandma will say i would like it for a visual for them. i see. oh, well people don't not just a nicholas me. 0 was molded on geologically in cuba and leave your inquiry for me, grandmother. when he became in some ways, by the way, the cuban communist regimes top students in venezuela, they in very human community, that one of my doodle was inspired by cuba from a young age ultimately applying methods. he admired from castro's regime in his own

go, j. o i was appointed as director of said bean. so being and had to be sure when you're ready to pull the very and national intelligence services you see up on the beaker . is he going back to the political police open the police force me? do i use this phase on in latter but i might do this for him to call. the gestapo was bottle fit lot, but i voted for people in the my little maybe send me the link. is you got a benefit sooner, madura talk to me with enhancing our intelligence services to such a level that we know that every government opponent was on the civilian against him, but he wanted to know in real time what's everyone was doing? you know, sometimes who with junk really awesome cultural. so what did he have for breakfast this morning to me because he gave me the maintenance to get that kind of

information. somebody's starting in 2018 general manuel because he's still fantasy get i became the watchdog of the regime from arbitrary arrests to torture. his officers were accused of serious human rights violations. but tracking regime opponents wasn't his only responsibility. mister, my doodle does not have a great deal of respect from the other members of the tribe used to move, but particularly the military officers do not think highly of him, but also the long term. chevy east, as they saw him as a lightweight, the generals ministers officials, no one escaped surveillance by the now paranoid regime, especially not its rivals. mode of yellow madura gave the order to put me in prison within the ncp and

identified me as the person who could replace him as president tim as the head of the oil ministry. but i mean, it had become too powerful my little in swing for things you know because of his inability to arrest me. he resorted to insulting disc credit, ations speech of my house. he forced me into exile. he harassed me. my wife, my family, i have a brother who has been in prison for a year and he has nothing to do with politics and i was going up. what do you think? you called last month little accused his rival of embezzling millions of petro dollars ruining the oil industry to line his pockets on his way out of the template for the night. monday the coffee build on top of what i will do for you and move that off. i don't need it. but the gulf between the look of the june i'm going through them and meet the yeah. i don't know if i'm on the right the month in front

of a that would be sending the got dropped no big enough into a single has a lot the most that i mean i'm not the only one he pushed aside. he did. it took molar chavez's associates, as you put his friends from the ministry of foreign affairs, at the head of the countries institutions, it's terrible to be destroyed. our country need to strive the dream we build together so and you'll get the name. on the 6th of december 2015, venezuelans went to the polls to elect their members of parliament, the for nicholas my doodle, the vote didn't turn out as expected or on the the president had lost his majority in parliament. something that hadn't happened since the revolution. awesome man, i've seen

a part of the clear but my doodle didn't step down. public rage exploded into rioting. my confusion to the streets and a waiver for prussian defenders of protest is the will seem to think that a 151 young people were killed by states that you she offices the annual legal task. i was the only person in the senior role in the finish scrolling institution who did to face madura. so i left for you. the

louisa or vega was at the time the countries attorney general at the pinnacle of legal power since 2007, she had used her strategic position to protect the regime from embarrassing questions. at this time for her, the repression went too far and was looking for the most a authentic i pulled up for him to the throne one i ordered the rest of a policeman who had crushed protest is with an anti right vehicle. the response i got was that my arrest order was the violation of the human rights of the vehicle's driver. i was going to go to a friend. good. do you see how it said this is so the, the louisa ortega had crossed the red line and paid for it dearly. a and the it was the 6th of august 2017. i still in the prosecutor's office at 3 am. yeah, i heard about that 6 a and the guy arrived on site at 7 am in the morning on the map

at a so know the windows. we received a volume which i arrived. i was hassled by soldiers, static that long id. the deal to which we had to sleep. i mean, so i don't like an emotion buying because that was threatening to shoot me interest making a i didn't know how fun i might go look inside of people here. so i think when the export is just the work of the for a sudden i had to disguise myself with the black we to escape venezuela by rhode island. god right, they don't. minnesota, the louisa or day ago was forced to leave her country and disappear a few months later, she went to the international criminal court in the hague to initiate proceedings.

she was equipped with damning documents, incriminating the venezuelan regime, the mario to mean any sort of move in a house and finished wailings with executioners by the police. and the um it is that i thought it was a social coach to see how it feels like those people because the regime has and continues to have a systematic policy, a violation of human rights to control the country that by demonstrating strength, the regime to toes people from thinking they know it and choose the population, does it feel able to demand a right that they feel pers increase and harass to run by the evidence against my doodle was mounting key became increasingly isolated. internationally for the

united states, the time was right to deliver the crew to class. in washington, one man in particular, was determined to destroy nicholas my doodle. john bolton was then donald trump national security adviser, the the severity of his sanctions plan was unprecedented. well in one of the star wars episode, so somebody comes up and report something to darth vader that he doesn't like. and using his mental powers, darth vader constricts this fella's throat until he collapses on the floor dead. and that actually was a pretty good image of what we wanted to do to the door over the, the embargo on oil and gas and the freezing of the states assets abroad. venezuela

found itself strangled. it was a master class by the us and reading mass destruction without firing a single shot. the sanctions wrecked the economy installation reached stratospheric levels. soon the price of a key low arrives at $2500000.00 volume bars. shortages gave rise to looting 7000000 people left the country the that is a good policy. it should be based upon the the assumption that nicholas and my daughter will never voluntarily relinquish power in venezuela. the problem was the, the mistaken belief that sanctions alone would force my daughter to change. and that was not what happened. venezuela was again a 2 tiered state. returning to what it was before the bullet,

very in revolution. a country in the hands of a privileged few, except this time the top dogs were my duties, cronies, minnes way lies. look, see more on a venezuela isn't obviously more on the billing fee, correct? yes, the capital is both having them. hell isn't this ocean of destitution? with the bubbles of wealth, with luxury caused some restaurants. but the reality is, of the vast majority of the population where you're drowning and poverty forwarded a lot. really that in caracas, the regime even authorized to be on thinkable the return of casinos band after the revolution, those in power were embezzling huge sums of public funds, amassing fortunes, the beggar belief, satellites, 2 sides of the same coin the whole world looked on as venezuela sank into poverty while waging an ideological war.

we are witnessing a human tragedy going down a pill. don't like these activities with them. that you don't to this as you'll need them. ok during the class you many death someplace they don't. don't hesitate . he's a strongly do it or is it keep? don't virtually everywhere socialism or communist has been tried. it has produced suffering corruption and decay. it was as if the cold war was back to ideological worlds were colliding. ok, maybe you got my throat beverage bother a math wrong. i don't believe the macro on that. we'll see. gotta you know that inside already got a caffeine. see it. uh huh . despite his bravado, my doodle was isolated, his grip on power was shaky. or then it has ever been before

the like all dictatorships, the duro likes to show the support of the military that's critical to maintaining him in power. the events and what happened. couple of drones of can coming from somewhere to assassinate during the 1st attack team on the day dedicated to the bullet, very, a national guard, the venezuelan military police. it's a very graphic demonstration. this is not a crack unit that could be counted on of the crisis. they were running to save themselves, not to save the door. looking at the moment became a bit of phone. okay. go 30, sorry for the unit for c, not the modal. it's in your junk folder, don't come over here for the computer. oh, well, if, if we had been that good, maybe the drought attack would have succeeded. the us had nothing to do with it.

this was a tangible indication that the opposition, certainly politically, but perhaps within the military as well, was preparing to take action. nicholas, my daughter was position was weekend and increasingly in doubt, the next attack would be swift and coming. the 2 men were preparing a crew to day, both live and exile of in miami generals to get a works as a building superintendent fund guy though is a professor at an american university. the in 20191 gladto was president of the national assembly and leading an opposition that no longer recognized my doodle as legitimate he decided to force the hand of

fate. hold. oh, that's amazing. the things. yes. the then it would be one of the, you know, given what i mean, the email, i mean the, when i took videos, president trump immediately recognized me is legitimate. the us was very important for the defense of democracy. they let him across him. it's a question of enormous strategic importance for the united states to have a free government and venezuela that will be sympathetic to american interest, not the russian interest, not the chinese, not to a ronnie and interest. joining us in the gallery is the true, legitimate president. event as well. one, why do the

morning? 60 countries would follow america's lead, and recognizing juan white or the white house, and found them in the top of my doodle. madura is gripped frontier. they will be smashed and broken the in caracas. the send a bruising change was in the air on the night of april 30th. the telephone rang and the white house operation freedom had begun. i work. busy that i spoke with trump about 5 o'clock, obviously he was asleep. one of the key actors that the opposition had been dealing with was the general figarola.

it was a sign of the discontent of the venezuelan armed forces at that moment in minnesota . when it was clear that he had defected, when he had acknowledged going those legitimacy that that would bring other elements, perhaps even defense minister for jury. no. to decide of one go. i do the will make you a uh, but i see them. but then anyway, i picked up the president of the supreme court like michael moreno in my car. we went to the house and administer defense. general petri no other you know, making more than look out on michael moreno was very nice to you. both were involved in the cooper and dependent vi of each of them are all better, most heavy and be 11, but it would trail for a soldier, means dest, prison and torture, and food to your, on my side, to answer each other in the eyes,

and say, what there is to say because there's no going back now. the boy who but i see and think, i don't think that it was out of my bulk of the wonderful dogs going by, natalie active, an assessor assessor that deals with the bus. you haven't been here for many through life. and the minister of defense was to free the political prisoners police and place them under my responsibility for case i have the same time the head of counter intelligence. and yet i was responsible for getting madura on a plan, able to get them out of the country, you suck out a little bit advice and fusion rained in caracas. the crew was under way. the general feeling was that nicholas my doodle would only be in power for a few more hours. i think both the doro and his wife wanted to leave, but they were prevented by the russians and the cubans. who said you're not going anywhere. if elements of the regime learned that venturo had fled the country,

they would do the same and you would see the regime collapse very quickly. but hours passed and the opposition's operation wasn't done, the folding is planned. only a handful of soldiers responded to one guide. always call the rest, remain in the barracks. no, no, no. he said, if he's gonna have nobody, i don't know what i mean, but what you'll get isn't carrion. i don't want to give the names of the people who betrayed me. how many of those who committed to come did not do so in all these, you know, say there were many reasons not to go against the dictatorship of cowardice and survival, instinct and self interest, or simply panic. am in de a binding. why not? you're going to offer now not clear to the not see my level, but i'm telling you what i mean. it won't be long since you look at that same

evening. my doodle declared the crew. a failure, live on television, the minister of defense, general palomino, appeared at his side. i cannot get into the city on one or confident feeling out of mind for the phone. i don't know. but i will give you kind of owning them in film that by but i would, if you got to pay on a scenario particularly so that a, a ventilator wasn't middle of the battle against my door road didn't take place. i mean, even playing field, it's like playing a soccer match on the hill with the other side, buying the referee and threatening the players. if anyone steps out of line, they assassinate him back to torture him or exiled him or the one that exceeded. i thought i'd be starting off at the table. the only one man was missing from that table on that evening, the renegade general manuel. forget

a level warming animal and body officer on equal misconduct. someone for the last one. maturer, cool, the known store, the onset, he asked me to come see him on the day and i talked about through with my wife who said, don't do it and took it to they'll put you in a hole. yes. you have to run the photos of these photos were sent to the bowl to come on this by the order here was to shoot this on the side that lucky i was fast on the list. i don't see it on there. wow. so thinking i'm more of a i felt like i had one foot in the grave about time is $800.00. it'll have to try to escape the country. get the battery later in just a moment to this moment from one moment. okay. the goal was critical.

e infiniti erroring for my showing that the proper time the federal check point officer recognized me and maybe he knew he had to arrest me in the end the and he said to my driver name to go ahead and wont channel for the soldiers further down the road a little a few minutes later, my driver said general, welcome to columbia columbia. the field crew attempt was also a set back for john bolton and the white house venezuela had slipped through their fingers to may 23rd total. and the trump had a conversation where potent basically gloated, that the gladto had been defeated. and he said, you know, the whole thing was a, it was a us effort is, you know, and you've actually consolidated the doors power. nicholas, my doodle remained,

and office solidifying his reputation for being indestructible. around him, the world changed. joe biden followed donald trump as president. part of latin america had swung back to the left. in brazil, my do to his friend a little of the silver had returned to power. he invited him to brazilian as a guest of honor, the gift will fix up. i'm at the cost of a quantum endeavor that is due that won't, can i see? no thought he thought he is that the wash of the cab, the vin as well. most of us would not have to you, but by that you, boss, i meant to do best. what would that video starting a flight of hostile by you or what do we have for matthew but easy like usual, the punches, go come see the new episode of super misspelling?

shes on the interesting, let me look at the american bad guys for tucked venezuela. oh, i mean it sort of way the drone has cut power across the country, even in hospitals. it's kyle, but thankfully to speak with miss dawson, his team has arrived to solve problems for the coming due to his propaganda machine for trees him to his people in the guise of a super hero. my due to his personality called knows no bounds and the see during the last national

holiday parade. on the 5th of july, a 10 meter high inflatable of super moustaches was pro rated among all the soldiers . it's absurd. even the worse for nanny dictatorships haven't done that in the matter. i guess i want to speak to miss dash, don't get, i'll get you on the way the month of this is the nelson mandela housing project and enormous complex build a prefab concrete in the hills. above caracas, 600 families from the slums, or 5 bellows, were moved into the government build social housing here. the homes were for those loyal to the machine. the residents have to watch the president's television chance on every night. the

super moustache is everywhere. after more than 10 years in power equinox, my doodle is more powerful than he's ever been. due to dances, his people stumble along, forced to follow his every step, the now he's dreaming of having the rest of the world dance to his tune to the in november 2022 world leaders gathered in egypt for the global climate conference. cop 27. it marked the end of my daughter's tracts through the desert super. it'd be both of them being a 30 so and it keeps doing the full and pariah of the international community. again,

some new friends in ways some wouldn't have believed possible. the the interest while dictator was back to being called president years of diplomatic strain, were swept away by a handshake. but the road to reconciliation started 8 months earlier and thousands of kilometers away the, the war and ukraine, the stabilized, the global balance of power. a few days after the russian invasion, a delegation from the white house landed in caracas. the americans wanted to speak to nicholas my doodle. the boy caught a brush i had made the biggest oil reserves in the world, absolutely vital and understanding seemed within reach. and it all started with

a rumor the, the former arrivals made a deal oil and exchange for fair elections in return for lifting economic sanctions . my doodle vowed to allow the opposition to take part in the 2024 presidential elections. a lot of the pieces as you go to the questions that goes along the message to the my doodle was try, i'm send following the americans lead the europeans also tried to win him over. he appeared willing to cooperate and signed an agreement with the opposition but

appearances were misleading. a few months before the election, the main presidential candidates remained ineligible. their relatives and associates were arrested by police, medical more by se dining both them. so capacity in the name of pragmatism, powerful countries make great mistake. they don't seem to think it will go as the united states made concessions to nicholas madura took one. yes. enormous ones. go to my little offer and come. what concessions has madura made in return on with none the accounting office, he had them all his political opponents can continue to be neutralized. we've been, is wayland cannot set our hopes on trump biden, or my call doing anything for us and i don't know what it goes to. oh, i got my good on the lake amount of cable based in golden lights. but the idyllic images of the fishers

are deceptive. the lake and its oil on a curse for the people the, the giant american oil tankers on the horizon seemed to mock the fissures every day . more of them leave loaded with black gold with cargoes already amounting to 135000 barrels a day. because my daughter seems uncomfortable despite attempted crews and sanctions is supported by friendly regimes and knows how to do business with china. the us and the you. thanks to the lake and it's natural wealth, and venezuela oil is a curse for the people and a blessing for the machine the

i guess the size, bradley. $100.00, your motor, by joining the daredevil taking on the wall of writing only for the applause and one of them i poured down to 13 minutes on the w russian espionage in the baltic sea. more and more often, any magic russian research vessels are appearing in strategic locations. as more

and more critical, underwater infrastructure is being destroyed. all these signs of a high breed investigative research on the high speed in 19 d, w. the, in the 1st year of the war and you train journalist shown along and report it from the russian occupied dumbass suite, and they're still good. what else to do is go to sleep, but it's not right and you've got and you have to think about a ran look at it will usually an accessible to western media. i must of this war of attrition. the

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