news we have for now about stay with us. we have a documentary film on housing as well as lead nicolai's mother will clings to power despite his country face. and we wanted to call an economy problems staging from one use of the top of the the can you see is what old cars tires have to do with the production? here's a hands on the real media. watch now on youtube. 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. and then i will say, ok mother to get a good when russia invaded ukraine, nicholas majority used oil to gain new influence on the political world stage the load up with a way to find out more spit out on that. i'm publicizing this meeting with the united states. and so what do are 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. us was they wanted to

get oil 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 town was unrelenting, virtually everywhere socialism were communist bridges, 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 my daughter's 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. 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, he rises like a phoenix from the ashes, the

to get in so good as 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, 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 lived 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 may see. and so i thought it made us getting off there that on that made easy docs that i can see how it goes was a big thriving city as were minor cable in valencia. but next to them was a large number of, of dealers and very poor areas. and the inmates well wasn't reaching the population though another hand for the majority of 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 at, during the 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, 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 would i be able to sign you only through main so but allow me a seal? oh the see i'm what are you ready? yeah. and if it all, you'll check on me to do me through main. so anyway, to seal them, it's a different then. yeah, the 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 with you i level way. so they had, we brought the poverty rate down from the 70. it's a 7 percent on nice. these were incredible social advances. and we bought that google chavez turned global politics upside down. you called us my little became his minister of foreign affairs, orchestrating close relationships with cuba,

russia and iran. you're going to see, i think, what i'm other, when you nicholas madura, when i was the young officer and the security detail of who go shop is you made, i mean, you nickel, i'm out of 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 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 elite. i need

to come up, but i see they will be coming by to. yeah, just so you don't get any question based on it or for the 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 the can you call us my pseudo won 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, 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 gave me this, allowed him to construct the middle of nicholas madura. the bus driver was wonderful to position himself with a work appraisal to go look at it. ah, i say proceed 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. while main believe i'm all 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 with 0 was molded audiological in cuba and leave your inquiry for me. grandmother when he became in some ways by the way, the cuban communist regimes told 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 and his own

the go j. o. i was appointed as director of sabine. so being 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 open the police force me do i use this phrase on end latter but i might do this for him to call, the gestapo was bottle fit lot, but i voted for people in 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? look sometimes who with junk, leon casual. 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 could 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, all does not have a great deal of respect from the all. busy 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 you all know that my daughter will give the order to put me in prison into

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 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 doing going up or do you think you lost my little accused, his rival of embezzling millions of petro dollars ruining the oil industry to line his pockets on his way out of the bandito traffic, the proper word i will do is get up and move that off. i don't need it, but in order for me to go between the 2 of 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 sending the god just no, i don't think what the weight of the signal has a lot, but then those 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. he destroyed our country and he destroyed the dream we built together. so in 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. uh soon

a part of the auto body is off 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 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 finish scrolling institution who did to face madura. so i left for you. the

louisa or vega 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 thrown one. i ordered the rest of a policeman who had crushed, protest is with an and t 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 absurd this is so that the louisa ortega had crossed a red line and paid for it dearly. it was the 5th of august 27th, shane. i still in the prosecutor's office at 3 am. yeah, i heard about the 6 am, the guy arrived on site and its 7 am in the morning on a 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 bite because that was threatening to shoot me interest making me. i didn't know how fun i might go when the kids have a couple of the big ideas. thank when by eckworth and just the wicked for a sudden i had to disguise myself with the black. we to escape venezuela by road. god right. there are many sorana 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 fitness violence with execution budget police. and the all means that i thought it was a social coach to see how it feels like sure, most 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 to minutes. wayland 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, minnesota nice. come on, look. see more on to venezuela risen, oak some more of the billing fee? correct? yes, the capital is both having an how isn't this 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 to be on thinkable the return of casinos band. after the revolution, those in power were embezzling huge sums of public funds from massing fortunes that bigger belief. so like it's 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 say like to do the news with them that you don't to disassociate them or creating the class. you may need this someplace. they don't, don't hesitate. he just, when you do those he can 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 ability to go through the side of my car and that will suit gotta, you know, that insight already got to 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 human power. i got the email and what happened. couple of drones 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, it gave me my bit of phone. okay. go 30, sorry for the unit 50, not the modal. it's in your junk folder, don't promo 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. nikolai small doors 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. 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 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. 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 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 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 would bring other elements, perhaps even defense minister for jury, no. to the side 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. can my call? we went to the house and administered defense. general petri no other you know, making more than look out on michael moreno was very in the you. both were involved in the cooper and dependent the 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 you've got because there's no going back now. the boys oversee and think, i don't think that it was out of my own bulk of the wonderful dogs going by, natalie active. but 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 fully and place them under my responsibility. what they say 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 the venturo and 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 is planned. only a handful of soldiers responded to one way. those call the rest remained 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 carrying. i don't want to give the names of the people who betrayed me. i don't see many of those who've 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. d, i'm in day a binding. when i'm not, you're going to say no offer. now, i feel that the not see my level, but i'm telling you what i mean the the most. if 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. i cannot get into the city or when i come for them to fill out of mine that are in the front of them. but i will give you kind of wanting them in film that by but i would if you got it the scenario particularly so that i didn't throw insight on what the middle of the battle against my door 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 and torture him or exile him or them, i may not exceed. 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 to get

a level warming animal and by the office you only a columbus, columbus. i'm a forklift from missouri, colby known store that will i'm on 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 and take it. 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. get that lucky. i was 1st on the list and i'll see it on the wow. so thinking i'm more of a, i felt like i had one foot in the great about time is a country it'll, it'll have to try to escape the country to get that a better time to get some more mental this moment from one moment. okay. the goal was critical. the infinity erroring for them. i see on the top i found the federal check point

officer recognized me and maybe he knew he had to arrest me. and in the end, the end, he said to my driver, to go ahead and what channel for the soul just further down the road a little a few minutes later, my driver said general, welcome to columbia columbia. the, the, the failed crew attempt was also was 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 follow donald trump as president. part of latin america head 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 in the hands of, of course, that we will quote them into wherever that is do they will, can i see those studies that he is that the west of the cab, the vin as well, most of us will not have to you, but by that you boss, i meant to do best. what would that video you're starting to fly hospital by you or what do we have for matthew? but if he likes usual, the san francisco come see the new episode of super most stylish is on

the interesting let me look at the american bad guys for tucked venezuela. oh, i mean, sorta 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. my doodle is personality, cold knows no bounds. and your thing with this scene 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. the matter, i don't want to see pistachio good, i'll get you one. and so in 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 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 do those tracts through the desert super to 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 question, i think on the part of a 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, medical more by se dining both them. so capacity in the name of pragmatism, powerful countries make a great mistake. they don't seem to think you will go as the united states made concessions to nicholas madura on the, on the table. yes, enormous ones. it go to my little income. what concessions has madura made in return on that with none the accounting office, and then with all his political opponents can continue to be neutralized? we've been, his wailings cannot set our hopes on the trump biden, or my call doing anything for us. and i then will know what it goes to. oh, i got my good on the lake amount of cable, they didn't 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. can you call us, my daughter, o seems untouchable, 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 in venezuela, oil is a curse for the people and a blessing for the machine, the

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