and that's it for me and the news team. i'll have a world news update for you at the top of the i don't go way up next. i'll documentary looking at venezuela's disputed presidents, nicholas mitchell. i'm good. how to f as in bill in front of me and the whole new scene here. thanks for the can you see is what old cars tires have to do with you production? here's a hands on so really indeed much know on is you to

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, let's see on that. ok mode or 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 with a way to find out more than a home 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. 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 iraq it as

a result. what was really on the mind of the white house was they wanted to get oil. busy prices down their point of view with 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. you turn for us diplomacy for almost 25 years. the us and venezuela were foes. the tone was unrelenting. virtually everywhere socialism or communist reduce suffering corruption and decay. donald trump hung up the phone. i think maybe they made up the the us put a price on my daughter's head. they were held bent on ousting this hero of the

socialist revolution during the griff 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 declined the gate by the way. his country is bankrupt. there were assassination attempts, but he held his grip on power lines, select the bottom which we owe and the estimation to him go see if he's very skewed . as it's 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, rises like a phoenix from the ashes, the

gate and the go to the community. and so they saw job vi in 19 seventies, venezuela. the me rick and dream was in full swing. the country was then the richest in all of latin america. thanks to its oil reserves. the lena boy, people lick named it the saudi arabia of latin america, venezuela. was the biggest exporter of oil in the world to everyone to lift 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. msn dot on a scale, they're that are not made easy docs that are good when they didn't see that kind of like us was a big, thriving city as were minor typo in valencia. but next to them was a large number of villas in very poor areas. the inmates well wasn't reaching the

population. so you know what i had 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 past during a board to attend. julio chavez won the presidential election in 1998 and launched his socialist revolution. and beside him, out of the line like steward his future right hand man, lost my doodle. the job as wanted to transform the country. and he was counting on

oil to fund his ambitious social project. he installed one of his close associates at the top of the oil industry stuff i end, and i knew this would become one of the most powerful people in the country. when we're done, what you'll see on your own, you through main, the c o o, the younger if it throw little check on me to do me to remain so anyway, to see on the different things. yeah. the silica things to oil money more, the 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 was you i left over a so the thing has we brought the poverty rate down from 70 to 7 percent on the ice . these were incredible social advances and waiting for that google job as turned global politics upside down. because my little became his 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 a young officer and the security detail of who go shop is the man. i mean, you make a lot of that time. nicholas madura was elect as a member of the national assembly display. then he became president, the assembly must rely on finally, he was appointed as minister of foreign affairs for chavez, that he 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, hardship in the savannah. around the table, he assembled his closest disciples. next to chavez and my doodle was an oil minister,

f i l need is a l e. hon. i need my little girl. i see they told me guess i'll be down in there for a few days later, google job is 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 p. as in the, on the side of the

last, my little one, the election by a hair was bred with 50 point to 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, to 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 telling me this, allowed him to construct the man of nicholas madura the bus driver. wonderful to position himself is a work appraisal. gotta go look at it. ah, i say, but i see they and they go move, but i see that that's the story of nicholas madura in any court on my little my daughter grew up in a working class neighborhood of caroll gas university was never on the cards for him. hard. you membership proved to be his salvation while main building got a little bit of can also yeah, i would like it for a visual for them. i see. oh, well people don't know if the nicholas material was molded on geologically in cuba and leave your inquiry for the grandmother when he became in some ways by the way, the cuban communist regimes top students in venezuela, the human community. that awareness 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 sabine. so being and had to be sure. what do you already have a pool of area, national intelligence services you see up on the bigger screen, but it's the political police helping the police force my do i use this phrase on and i might do this for him is called the gestapo was bottle fit lot, but i voted for people in my little maybe sammy, even cause you got up benefits to in our montero task to me with enhancing our intelligence services to such a level that we know that every government opponent was on the savannah against him . but he wanted to know in real time what everyone was doing, look,

sometimes he would joke, leon casual. so what did he have for breakfast this morning? meaning he gave me the means to get that kind of information. somebody's starting in 2018, general manuel. could he 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 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. just as they saw him as a lightweight the general's minister's officials, no one escaped surveillance by the now paranoid regime. especially not as rivals load of you all know that my

dural gave the order to put me in prison to the ends. if he had a den to find me as the person who could replace him as president tim as the head of the oil ministry. but i mean, as had become too powerful my little in simple things, you know, because of his inability to arrest me, he resorted to insulting just credit ations. teach up my house because 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 for the last month, a little accused, his rival of embezzling millions of petro dollars ruining the oil industry to line his pockets on his way out of the the monday though, i think the proper word on this. you got it. i moved that off. i don't need it,

but the but in order for me to go be in the look of the you and i'm assuming to 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 just no big what the weight loss and the signal has a low but and also, 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. on 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 on, on mondays off but my doodle didn't step down. a public rage exploded into rioting. confusion to the streets and a waiver for oppression defended a protest. the will seem to think that 100 and especially one young people were killed by states that you she offices the annual legal castle. i was the only person in the senior role in the venice scrolling institution who did to face madura. so i left for you the

louisa all big. it was at the time the country's 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 hand flow on 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 total up and good. do you see how absurd this is? so the, the louisa ortega had crossed a red line and paid for it dearly. a. it was the 6th of august 2017. i still in the prosecutor's office at 3 am. yeah, i heard about the 6

a and the guy arrived on site at 7 am in the morning on the map at a so know, equipped with damning documents, incriminating the venezuelan regime, the mario to meet him, any sort of move in a house and finish filings what executioners, bug police in the army, and i thought it was a social coach to see how the, the most people, because the regime has and continues to have a systematic policy, a violation of human rights to control the country by demonstrating strings, 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 rise and fall on 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 little 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 them the door over shame with 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 votes. box 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. minnes wayland was again,

a 2 tiered state. returning to what it was before, the bullet vary 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 venice land or is an option more on the billing fee? correct? yes, the capital is both half and then how is miss ocean of destitution with the bubbles of wealth with luxury caused some restaurants. but the reality is that the vast majority of the population where you're drowning and poverty forwarded a lot really, that in caracas, the regime even authorized the 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 as a human tragedy can be on it. so if you don't like these activities with them, that you don't to this as you will need them. ok during the class you many death someplace they don't know how to tell you 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 a math wrong. i don't believe the ability to go to 3 and then throw in and so i left my car and they will see god, are you doing that insight already got to 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 human power. i got the email and what happened. couple of drones of can coming from somewhere to assassinate during the 1st attack team on the day dedicated to the bully, very and 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 go more here for the computer. oh,

well, if, if we had been that good, maybe the drone 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 equalize my daughter's position was weakened and increasingly in doubt, the next attack would be swift. in coming, the 2 men were preparing a crew. today both live and exile of in miami general's the 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. i mean the days, yes, the and it would be one of the, you know, given what i mean, the e mail, i mean the, when i took fios 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 in 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 of venezuela. one, why do the morning? 60 countries would follow america's lead in recognizing one. why don't the white house that found them in the top of my doodle? madura is griff frontier. they will be smashed and broken the in caracas. the send a routine 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 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 grinders legitimacy, that that would bring other elements, perhaps even defense minister for jury, no. to decide of one go, i do the will make a uh, but i see them. but then anyway, picked up the president of the supreme court like michael moreno and get my call. we went to the house and administered defense. general petri no other. you know, you make a modern look out on michael moreno was very good holiday. 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 death,

prison and torture, and put the order 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 boys were going to see and think of the things i found out of my local wonderful adults 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 placed them under my responsibility, what they say at the same time, the head of counter intelligence. and yet i was responsible for getting withdrawal and apply 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 goes, 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. folding as 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. i don't see many of those have committed to come, did not do so in all these, you know, say there are many reasons not to go against the dictatorship of cowardice and survival, instinct and self interest, or simply panic. p. i'm in day a binding. when i'm not, you're going to sign up right now actually on the bottom on the bottom of the but i'm telling you what i'm in the that it won't be

that same evening. my daughter declared, the cool failure live on television, the minister of defense, general public, you know, 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 who got a link that i mean film that by but i would if you've got to pay on a scenario. but anyway, that's the, i think the trailer wasn't me know as a battle against my door didn't take place. i mean, even playing field, it's like playing a soccer match on a 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 them, i may not exceed. the 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 me. i'm all ready. i'll trust you. only equal misconduct. someone for the delay from missouri. cool, be known. store the onset. he asked me to come see him. i remember dave, 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. i don't see it on there. wow. so thinking i'm more of a, i felt like i had one fits in the grade about times because a country battle i had tried to escape the country that i've had recently a former single mental this moment from one moment. okay. the call was critical.

the infinity erroring for them, i see on the top of the battle and check points officer recognized me and maybe he knew the answer to arrest me. i'm going to in the end, the end he said to my driver name, go ahead and won't channel for the soul just further down the road. a little 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 a, it was a us effort is, you know, 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 as part of latin america had swung back to the left. in brazil my due to his friend, a little of the silver had returned to power. he invited him to brazilian as a guest of honor and my daughter kept his we'll fix up in the hands of a course of we will content over those do they won't, can i see? no thought he thought he is the last of the cab of isabella. most of us will not have to you, but by that you boss, i meant to fund your best. what would that video starting a football so by you, of course the flood mad you but easy like usual the

san francisco come see the new episode of super most stylish is on the interesting you're saying it's only looking to the american bad guys for tucked venezuela oh, i mean it's sort of the way the drone has cut power across the country, even in hospitals. it's kyle. but thankfully 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 cold knows no bounds. him while they see during the last

national holiday parade on the 5th of july, a 10 meter high inflatable of super moustaches. it was pro rated among all the soldiers. it's absurd, even the worse, but none of dictatorships haven't done that. and then later, i guess i want to speak to miss dash though good. i'll get you on a somebody that i'm offering. 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 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. 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 do those tracts through the desert super to be both of them being

a 30 so it keeps doing. the full and pariah of the international community had gained some new friends in ways some wouldn't have believed possible. the of 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, 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 former arrivals made a deal. oil in exchange for a fair elections in return for lifting economic sanctions. my doodle vowed to allow the opposition to take part in the 2024 presidential elections. of the 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. go to my little offer and come. what concessions has madura made in return on with none the accounting office, and then with all his political opponents can continue to be neutralized? we've been, as wailings cannot set our hopes on trump biden, or my call doing anything for us, and i don't know what it goes wrong. i'm not 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 seem to mock the fissures every day . more of them leave loaded with black gold with cargoes already amounting to 100. 35000 barrels a day. lost my door seems unintelligible 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 a blessing for the machine,

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