since we are ending up with good and dying, and next on the united states and watching disturbing news from berlin up next, we take a look at efforts by russia to conduct espionage in the baltic sea. i'm here until berlin. thank you very much for joining us. the ukraine was like a stepping points, you know, 5 or 2 in so that warranty wants to finish your studies. now you have a safe get from the cranes. you can just go back or somewhere else. currently, more people than ever on the move. in search of a place in life. yeah. give me something that is coming very, very soon. and yeah, can we learn more about or know when a story info, migraines? 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 do it all right. and then i will say, ok mother to get a get when russia invaded ukraine. nicholas, my daughter, used oil to gain new influence on the political world stage. i had put that on the load up for the 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 to, you know, 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 of the white house was they wanted to

get will prices down their point of view with the the more against ukraine already underway. if they could get more venezuelan oil on to the market and for the 2022 election biden would not suffer politically. it was a historic diplomatic. you turn for us diplomacy for almost 25 years, the us and venezuela were foes. the town was unrelenting, virtually everywhere socialism or communist which is suffering corruption and decay . the drum funds are beneficial. i think maybe up to you. they made up the us put a price on my daughter's head. they were hell bent on ousting this hero of the socialist revolution. dura is a great frontier already will be smashed and broken due to his opponents,

consider him the grave digger of venezuelan democracy. mean 30 soldiers stopped me from going into parliament. i had to climb the gates by the way, his country is bankrupt. there were assassination attempts, but he held his grip on power to select the bottom which we owe on the estimation to 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 iran, and his immense oil reserves. but when he appears to be vanquished, philadelphia rises like a phoenix from the ashes, the

a dan, so good as got the data. and so they saw g job bob 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, the, not the people lick named it, the saudi arabia of latin america, venezuela was the biggest exporter of oil in the world, though 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 oil production was controlled by the major international oil companies . texaco exxon chevron. when i was in 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 scenario we miss young. so i thought on a task that on that made easy enough that i wanted to see how knock us was a big thriving city as were minor cable in valencia. but next to them was a large number of a v as in very poor areas. and the amounts well wasn't reaching the population, throwing 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 to come and leading the charge was colonel gold chavez, the at, during the board to attend. julio chavez won the presidential election in 1998 and launched his socialist revolution. the stand beside him out of the line like steward his future right hand man. because my doodle, chavez wanted to transform the country and he was counting on oil to fun is ambitious social projects. he installed one of his close associates at the top of

the oil industry stuff i and allow me to is would become one of the most powerful people in the country. and then what you'll sonya on you through main. so but allow me a c o o the c i'm what are you ready on a it's a 3 you said comedy do me through main. so anyway, to seal them, it's a different then. yeah, the positive so silica thanks to oil money, more than 9000000 families had access to social housing, billed by job, is going to university was within reach for working class people for the 1st time around with you i level way. so they had, we brought the poverty rate down from the 70, it's a 7 percent that night. so these were incredible social advances. and we bought that google chavez turned to global politics upside down. you called us my little became, has minister of foreign affairs or just reading close relationships with cuba,

russia and iran. you're going to see the new nicholas madura when i was the young officer and the security detail of go shop is made. i mean, you nickel, i'm not at that time nicholas madura was elected as a member of the national assembly. then he became president of the assembly. and finally he was appointed as minister of foreign affairs. for chavez, i think it was his errand. boy, they were jerry but julio chavez, his health was failing. ready in december 2012, his illness cancer pushed him to name a successor. boy, now to minnesota the around the table, he assembled his closest disciples. next to chavez and my doodle was the oil minister, f i l. i mean, is the pay the leon?

i need to come up, but i see they will be coming by the yeah, guess i will be the better because i'm not in or for a few days later we'll go chavez got on the 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 victor. so that was the flight of

last month due to a one. the election by a hair was bred with 50.6 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. when i go to position himself as a work of president, i can look at it and i say, but i see they and they go move. but i see that that's the story of nicholas madura . and then he called on my little my daughter grew up in a working class neighborhood of caracas. university was never on the cards for him . hard, you membership proved to be his salvation, while main phone grandma back. and we'll say i would like it for a visual for them. i see. oh, well, people don't, not just a nicholas material was molded on geologically in cuba and leave your inquiry for me for them. i believe it came in some ways by the way, the cuban communist regimes told students in venezuela, they in very human community that went on my doodle was inspired by cuba from a young age, ultimately applying methods. he admired from castro's regime in his own the

o, j. o. i was appointed as director of sabine. so me and had to be sure what are you ready on a pool of area, national intelligence services you see up on the bigger screen, but it's the political police helping the police force me do i use this phrase on end latter but i might do this for him to call, the gestapo was filed off it lot, but i voted for people in the my little maybe you sent me the link is you got a benefit sooner. madura task to meet 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, are you able to roam is doing little sometimes he with junkie awesome, gosh, well so what did he have for breakfast this morning?

meaning he gave me the maintenance to get that kind of information. somebodys starting in 2018, general manuel can you stuff? and if you get 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. a, mr. my daughter 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 load of yellow that my

dural gave the order to put me in prison into the hands if he had identified me as the person who could replace him as president tim, as the head of the oil ministry. but i mean, it is, had become too powerful my little in simple things, you know, because of his inability to arrest me, he resorted to insulting discredit. 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 bandito coffee building with the proper word on this. you come on. i don't know if i move that off. i don't need it. but the gulf between the look of the you know, i'm through them and meet the yeah. i don't know if i'm on the right. that's right

. or a month in front of it. that would be feeling the got your wrong, the way the the signal has a lot that and also, i mean, i'm not the only one he pushed aside. he did it to, although chavez is associates, i see put his friends from the ministry of foreign affairs at the head of the countries institutions. it's terrible. he destroyed our country and we need to strive the dream we built together. so when you get the new on the 6th of december 2015, venezuelans went to the polls to a link to their members of parliament, the for nicholas my doodle. the vote didn't turn out as expected. the phone, 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 brutal didn't step down. public rage exploded into writings like some fusions to the streets and a waiver for oppression defend itself. protest is the will seem to think that 100 and especially one young people were killed by states that you she offices the and you want me to guess i was the only person in a senior role in the finish scrolling institution who did to face and the do so, i left for you. the

louisa or the big. it 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 would have put a handle on when i ordered the rest of a policeman who had crushed protest as 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 total up and good. do you see how it said this is so the, the louisa ortega had crossed a red line and paid for it dearly. it was the 5th of august 27th, saying, i still in the prosecutor's office at 3 am. yeah, i heard about the 6 a and the guy arrived on site and it's 7 am in the morning on

a map at a so know the windows. we think the volume which i arrived was hassled by soldiers, static that long id the deal to it. and we had to sleep, i mean, so i don't like an emotional bind because that was threatening to shoot me interest making me. i didn't know how fond i might go. look inside of people here myself or is it the work of the for a sudden i had to disguise myself with the black. we to escape venezuela by road graduate. they don't have any sort of the louisa or they go 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 malia to leave any sort of move in a house and finished wailings with executioners bunch of police in the army and stuff that was a social coach for seattle. the watch those people, because the regime has and continues to have a systematic policy, a violation of human rights to control the country by demonstrating strings by 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 arise and follow 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 constructs 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 shane 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 volt device shortages gave rise to looting $7000000.00 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, and revolution. a country in the hands of a privileged few. except this time the top dogs were my duties, cronies, ministry lies. look, see more on to venezuela risen. ok more on the billing fee, correct? yes, the capital is both heaven and hell. isn't this an ocean of destitution with the bubbles of well, with luxury caused some restaurants. but the reality is, of the vast majority of the population where you're drowning and poverty forward a lot, really, that in caracas, the regime even authorized the on thinkable the return of casinos banned 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 can be on it. so if you don't like, sees activities with them that you don't to desist, you'll need them. ok. during the class you may need to have someplace they don't know how to do this when you do it or is it keep? don't virtually everywhere. socialism or comment is, 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 bottle of the math wrong. i don't believe the macro level. see gotta you doing that inside all you gotta get the know see it . i have despite his bravado, my doodle was isolated. his grip on power was shaky or then it had 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 only got, you know and what happened. couple of drawings of can coming from somewhere to assassinate during the 1st attack came 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 50, not the modal. it's in your junk folder, don't come on here for the computer. oh, well, if, if we had been that good, maybe the drawing 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 in exile of in miami generals to get our 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 days. yes. then i hit view and that's in the, you know, given what i mean to 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. the line will gotcha. 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 one why don't 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. 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

indeed 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 pretty well, i picked up the president of the supreme court like michael moreno in my car, we went to the house and the minister defense general petri no other. you know? you make it more. they look out on michael moreno was very the you both were involved in the could find dependency of each of them are all better, most every m b 11, but it would trail for a soldier, means dest, prison and torture, and put it to your,

on my side and select each other in the eyes and say what there is to say because there's no going back now. the boy who but at the end think i don't think that it was out of my bulk of the wonderful dogs going by, natalie, active 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 for you and place them under my responsibility for case i at 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 why those call the rest remain in the barracks? no, no, no. he's out of his going ahead. no, but i don't know what i mean. but oh my goodness. okay. oh yeah, and i don't want to give the names of the people who betrayed me. how many of those have 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 the the most that you look at that same evening. my

daughter declared, the crew failure live on television, the minister of defense, general public, you know, appeared at his side, a kid in the city on one or confident feeling out of mind that are in the front of the whole difficult to link them in film that by but i would if you got to pay on a scenario particularly so that i didn't throw insight on what the 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 exile him or the one that exceeded i thought i'd be starting him for the table. the only one man was missing from that table on that evening, the renegade general manuel,

forget me. i'm all ready. officer on equal misconduct. someone for the life on maturer. cool, be non stop. and so he asked me to come see him. i remember the date i talked about through with my wife who said don't do and took it. they'll put you in a hole. yes. you have to run the photos of these photos were sent to the boat to come on this by the order here was to shoot just on the side, the rocky. i was fast on the list. you'll see it on there. wow. so i'm thinking that more of a i felt like i had one foot in the grave about time as a country battle and i have trying to escape the country for the batteries i leave for me. this is the moment to this moment from one moment to create the goal was critical.

e, anthony erroring for them i see on the top assembled propeller the battle check points officer recognized me and maybe he knew the answer to arrest me. in the end, the end he said to my driver name, go ahead and what channel for the so just further down the road. a few minutes later, my driver said general, welcome to columbia columbia. the field qu 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, uh, it was a us effort issue. no, and you've actually consolidated the doors power. nicholas my doodle remained in office solidifying his reputation for being indestructible.

around him, the world changed. joe biden follow donald trump as president. part of latin america had swung back to the left. in brazil, my doodle, his friend little of the silver had returned to power. he invited him to brazilian as a guest of honor the captions. we'll fix up and give us a course that we will quote them into wherever that is do they will, can i see no thought he thought he is that the wash of the cab of it as well. most of us will not have to you, but by that you boss, i meant to find your best. what would that video you're starting to fly hospital by you? it was to be a flat, matthew, but easy. like usual. the punches, go come, see the new episode of superman's status 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 also for the jersey city massage and 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. the my due to his personality called knows no bounds in the sea 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. and then later, i guess i want to speak to miss dash, don't get, i'll get you one i. so with that then i'm off of this is the nelson mandela housing project. and the norm is complex, build a prefab concrete in the hills above caracas, 600 families from the slums, or 5 l as were moved into government build social housing here. the homes were for those loyal to the regime. 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. my 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 war and ukraine de 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 called of russia 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 doodle was try, i'm sent 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 mistaken sympathetic people go as the united states made concessions to nicholas madura took one. yes. enormous ones. it guy told my little income. what concessions has madura made in return on with none the accounting office, and then all his political opponents can continue to be neutralized? we venezuelans cannot set our hopes on trump biting or my call doing anything for us. and i don't know where to go, so 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 that every day, more of them leave loaded with black gold with cargoes already amounting to 100. 35000 barrels a day because my daughter seems uncomfortable despite the 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 in venezuela, oil is a curse for the people. and the blessing for the machine, the

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