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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 majority used oil to gain new influence on the political world stage that throughout the load up with a way to find out most that out on that. i'm publicizing this meeting with the united states. and so what do are a 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. what was really on the mind of the white house was they wanted to get oil 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 u term for us diplomacy. for almost 25 years, the us and venezuela were foes. the town was unrelenting, virtually everywhere socialism were communist bridges, suffering corruption and decay the drum tons of benefit. and i think maybe after you sent me to the, the us put a price on my daughter's head. they were held bent on ousting this hero of the

socialist revolution. during griffin charity 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 gate by the way, huh. his country is bankrupt. there were assassination attempts, but he held his grip on power lines 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 stealing power while they're 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, he rises like a phoenix from the ashes, the

the the get and the good as got the data. and so they saw 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, 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 it made us getting all the dump babies the dogs that i couldn't when they didn't see that kind of like us was a big, thriving city as were minor cairo in valencia. but next to them was a large number of v, as in very poor areas, and the amazing 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 to come and leading the charge was colonel gold chavez, the at, during a board to attend. good 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, 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 stuff i and, and i knew this would become one of the most powerful people in the country. when they moved your son, you only through maine, so but allow me a c o o the if it's all you'll check on me to do me through maine. so anyway, to seal them, it's a different thing. yeah. be positive. so silly things to oil money, more than 9000000 families had access to social housing bill by job is going to university was within reach for working class people for the 1st time around. what do i level would a so the thing as we brought the poverty rate down from 70 to a 7 percent that night. so these were incredible social advances and waiting for that google job as turned to global politics upside down. you go to as 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 the young officer and the security detail of google 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. in december 2012, his illness cancer pushed him to name a successor. boy now to the savannah. 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 day that i need to come up, but i see they will be coming by the, i guess i will be down 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 only need a p. as in victor, should i, on the side of the

can, you call us 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 a me, but this allowed him to construct the man of nicholas madura the bus driver. wonderful to position himself as a work, a 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 caroll gas. university was never on the cards for him. hard you membership proved to be his salvation while main bully grandma back and i'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 include your grandmother when he became in some ways by the way the cuban communist regimes told students in venezuela they in the 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 sabine subbing and had to reassure what he already had a pull 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 ends that are but i might do this for him, cause like a stop. it was filed off it lot, but i voted for people in the my little maybe you sent me even cause you got up benefits to in our madero task. to me it was enhancing our intelligence services to such a level. i will that every government opponent was on the civilian against him, but he wanted to know in real time what everyone was doing. look,

sometimes he would joke, leon's little casual. so what did he have for breakfast this morning to me because he gave me the means to get that kind of information. somebody's starting in 2018 general manuel, cuz he's still fat. if you 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 might do it all does not have a great deal of respect from the other members of the chubby as the movement. 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 as rivals load of you all know that my

daughter will give 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, it had become too powerful my little in simple things, you know, because of his inability to arrest me. he resorted to insult if he could just credit ations, teach up my house cuz 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 the vehicle 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 the dfcs up i move that off, i don't need it, but the gonna be another. got you and i'm up to them and meet the yeah. i don't

know if i'm on the right or a month in front of a that would be selling the god just little bit. go up to somebody la into a single has a low but and also, i mean i'm not the only one. he pushed aside. he did it to, although chavez's associates 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 stride the dream we build together. so, and you'll get both of them. 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, uh soon a part of the 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 151 young people were killed by states that you she offices the and you will need golf task. so i was the only person in the senior role in the finish scrolling institution who did to face the do sorta for you. the

louisa, all they got 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 pulled up when i came to the throne. when i ordered the rest of a policeman who had crushed, protested with an n 2 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. a. it was the 6th of august 2017. i still in the prosecutor's office at 3 am. yeah, i heard about the 6 am the guy arrived on site at 7 am in the morning on

a map at his oh no, he went, else we received a volume which i arrived was hassled by soldiers, static that long id the deal to which we had to sleep, i mean, so i don't, i go for the most of buying because that was threatening to shoot me interest mckinney. i didn't know how fond i might go look inside of people. the court is just the work of the for us. so i had to disguise myself with the black we to escape venezuela by road. that 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 malia to leave any sort of move in a house and finish filings with execution budget police. and the all means that i thought it was a social coach to see out of the auction. 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, 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 file?

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. some of the 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 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 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 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, minnesota nice. come on, look, see more on a venezuela arisen oak some 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 that the vast majority of the population where you're drowning and poverty forward 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 then 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 beyond it. okay. don't like these activities with them that you don't to this as you will evil. ok during the test you many death someplace they don't. don't hesitate. he is 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 bottle of the math wrong to believe that i believe you called at the macro level. see gotta you doing that insight already. got a caffeine. 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, you know, 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 and national guard, the venezuelan military police. it's a very graphic demonstration. this is not a crack unit that could be counted on another crisis. they were running to save themselves, not to save the door. looking at the moment you gave me what for the 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 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 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 the days. yes. then i hit view and that's in 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. the line will crossing. 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 had found them in the top of my doodle? madura is gripped frontier. they will be smashed and broken the to rock us to send a bridging 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 the signing 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 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 then pretty well. i picked up the president of the supreme court like michael moreno in my car. we went to the house of the minister of defense, general patrina, whether you be making more than look out on michael moreno was very the you both were involved in the could for independent via each of them are all better, most every m b 11. but it would trail for a soldier, means dest,

prison and torture, and buddha, 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 boys who but i see and think, i don't think that was out of my own 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 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. 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 what you'll get isn't k o young. i don't want to give the names of the people who betrayed me. i don't see it. 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, i mean day, a binding. why not? you're going to try to offer now actually on the bottom, on the bottom of the but i'm telling you what i'm in the the most that you look at

that same evening. i do to declare the crew 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 front. 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, but i really do my best so that i as ventilating asylum. it wasn't me know as a battle against my door. oh, 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 the one that exceeded i thought i'd be starting with him for the table. the only one man was missing from that

table on that evening, the renegade general manuel, if you get a little me, i'm all ready. all pressure on equal most comments on the 4th, the last one, madura cool, be non, stop. the onset, he asked me to come see him. i remember dave, i talked about it with my wife who said don't do and take it. they'll put you in a hole. yes. you have to run the photos or at least 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 foot in the grade at that time because a country battle, i had to try to escape the country that i've had recently a former single mental this moment from one moment. okay. the goal was critical.

the infinity erroring for them, i see on the boat on the top of the battle, a check point 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, let me go ahead and one channel for the soul 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 pony. and the trump had a conversation where potent basically gloated that the guido had been defeated. and uh, 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 followed donald trump as president, 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 because we'll fix up in the hands of a course of we will content over those. do they won't, can i see it, though for the thought he is that if the wash of the cab a vin, as well, 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 flight house to buy you? that was to be a flat, matthew, but easy like usual the

punches, go come see the new episode of super massages on the interesting let me look at the american bad guys for tucked venezuela. oh, i mean it's sort of like 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. 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 nannie 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 i don't that i'm not perfect. 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 a 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 equal us, 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 flow 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 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 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 that you go, some of the questions that goes along the message to the my 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, the more by se, dining, both them. so capacity in the name of pragmatism, powerful countries make great mistake. you seem to think you will go as the united states made concessions to nicholas madura took one. yes. enormous ones. go to my little income. 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 venezuelans cannot set our hopes on the trump biden, or my call doing anything for us. and i then we'll 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 it's 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 mounting to 135000 barrels a day. nicholas, my daughter seems untouchable despite the attempted twos and sanctions, he 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

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