employment. within a decade my country was ruined. migrated and public debt kept rising. in twenty fifteen a government claiming to be a left wing promise to force an end to hostilities. however it agreed measures that tie the country up until twenty sixty and started mess privatization. the right was depressed because they knew they'd lost their is on difference. in this country of mass depression however there was one word that awakens the political fervor of the. venezuela.

that's. the type of. thing i love the supporting cast we see just to live up able to see if it is lit up on a plane would send them out of the movie scene. on another human as well again not the. one a european country went through a crisis why were its politicians worried about toilet paper in latin america. i flew to caracas to find out.

during the eleven hour flight i read all sorts of articles warning me that caracas is one of the most dangerous cities in the world. if i wasn't murdered as soon as i got off the plane i'd be kidnapped or mugged or die of hunger or disease. will rot in prison. venezuela's capital is indeed amongst the most dangerous cities but so are dozens of cities in mexico brazil lo columbia. however the people there do have fun like we do they exercise much like us.

children eat ice cream and some women carry refrigerators for some reason. surprisingly nobody trying to kill kidnap or imprison me when i arrived. during those first few hours i sold venezuela had fallen victim to the biggest propaganda plot of the twenty first century. economy the only thing keeping out. i wanted to see life in the barrios the slums of caracas gatecrash rich winnings i am and i wanted to be to young people assists and workers see what they do for fun cause they eat how they vote what newspapers they read what their favorite hobbies.

until we got hit by a taxi and we were left in the middle of the street. the police who we hadn't called arrived within minutes. the ambulance that we did call never appeared. so i went. and found a doctor right away and most of the public hospitals i visited were more than decent. in some clinics medical care was offered for free by cuban doctors who were considered some of the best in latin america. however most hospitals lacked one essential element. patients. as to what our medicines there's no point in going. spare parts for the x.

ray machines were missing to. find those i had to go to a private hospital. and i stumbled on the first proof that socialism had failed in venezuela. the moment. i made. them almost. as one of venezuela's most eminent economists she's never hidden her support for the bolivarian revolution of. the moment or the thesis. that many people are mad that.

they don't let down the suitors show me their. money. what there is no humanitarian crisis in venezuela looming humanitarian crisis. is the. humanitarian crisis. and crisis. crises the country's economic crisis has turned into a humanitarian one. everyone said venezuela was going through a humanitarian crisis. they went to geneva to be a u.n. independent expert. he just returned from caracas. people also seems to have a problem with the humanitarian crisis. that is a term of art. he said. you used the term

humanitarian crisis. a pretext to. humanitarian intervention. this was the argument made in libya when you wanted to have humanitarian intervention in libya. and at the same time regime change and overthrow the american military. with food for everybody is that is correct but the humanitarian aid would have to be secured by guys with guns. there are certain items that are missing. because production. trade distribution is entirely in private hands it is not direct so if you have a considerable portion of the. wealth. in this

position. that does not want to cooperate with the government you are going to have a scar city and you're going to have delays and distribution that cetera et cetera so i. do. see. the side of it. according to the central bank of venezuela products were missing before the constitutional referendum and regional elections of two thousand

and seven. before the presidential election of two thousand and twelve and off to chavez's death that again led to elections. american sanctions will soon be added to this artificial scarcity making the situation even worse. brought director of the c.p.r. in washington followed. all economic development he believes that america's sanctions are killing people in venezuela. when obama first imposed these sanctions on individuals because they violate so many international conventions he had to declare that venezuela poses an extraordinary and unusual threat to the security of the united states which is of course ridiculous and so this is a very aggressive thing trumpet taking

a big step further and really did make it nearly impossible for the venezuelan economy recover temperamental that it will kill for that ca to know he needs them from being a woman to have some math if he's still a b. and he says yeah look i'm with me coming behind me but i learned but that still lived all the facets illness it really is sad that they claim that. it's under less from the second my feet as they don't mess with that but in superman they're going to have to tell them. they're not interested in knowing why there is a problem so just to be sure why there are certain medicines are not available they don't tell you for instance that although venezuela has the money to buy medicines and tries to buy these medicines often enough the countries either refuse

to deal with. we had in the month of november or the crisis. in the province. and. they couldn't get to my lariam medicine from colombia they had to fly. from india. so matter of fact. venezuela has been flying in from god knows how many countries india and china etc there is a problem of scars to deal insulin but that is because of the boycott i mean put the blame where the blame belongs and. how can we condemn the government of venezuela. when we ourselves are causing this car city.

i do think the numbers mean something they've met or the us has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime families each day. eighty five percent in the world markets thirty percent somewhat four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and if we rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars ai industrial park but don't let the numbers over. the only number you need to remember one thing but.

you. can on the phone line smoke i don't make an important meeting of the muslim on muslim problem going to november because none of us was insensitive a. lot of such as well. ultimately i just had to get a feeling. she was human. john bombard from the sun on my most blue british course but from a family. i mean the guy did that in the clothes that doesn't want any of the. kitchen. to take. that's because there's

a survival guide book stacie just like all the stores simply have to be serviced. be sure it's not going to get back to back to. repeat missions to look at the last seven years. still of the seventy year treasury for. private owners hoarding products in times of political unrest american sanctions the queues for foods and medicines. this i've seen before.

in november nine hundred seventy socialist salvador became chile's president. the historic day for latin america. for the white house it was a mistake by the american ambassador in santiago edward gorey. he was well you know. but i only was elected i said that it was a grave and very serious defeat for the united states we knew that although i would act in what appeared to be

a legal and constitutional manner it would be designed as a class warfare would be a class war approach. top secret sensitive eyes only. nixon already in september called in. richeson that in latin america an alternative economic and social system could take hold and therefore the policy would be to make the chilean economy scream. nixon gives orders that they make the chilean economy scream and cia director richard helms writes it down.

they hinted at tagging. in order to be down last. month but a small but at the naval base in indiana has to see him to know it says the end will be on her neck and seeing him batted well planned on the upset about. this is the center so no mask and incomplete. simple see a scene in the middle of. the .

back of. something's. goal. but i guess. in venezuela's case the media attacks will be based on a well used recipe. everyone has to be convinced the. dictator is even when they held elections. in the two decades of the revolution. at least twenty five elections were held and accredited by independent experts like the.

over ninety two elections that we men are monitored i would say that the election process in voters' where is the best in the world. but where all the electoral process is legal and democratic. and twenty fifteen party loses the parliamentary election and the right wing opposition wins in the national assembly. to believe the country is paralyzed as m.p.'s hinder legislative work and rejects supremes court rulings. responds with a football dribble will lose. its. instead of waiting for the hand of god as his friend would advise changes field in the

middle of the game. of the holds a referendum on the formation of a constitutional assembly that would remove the powers of the national assembly controlled by his opponents. was it a constitutional move absolutely. the opposition had twice considered using the same procedure to remove chavez from office in two thousand and seven. in two thousand and sixteen. zero before the gun bill. was a decision ethical. i may not be qualified to say. in my country as well as in italy the banker was appointed prime minister. the referendum was ignored. in europe we cancelled

a total of five referendums because the citizens hadn't voted as the e.u. wanted them to. was those decisions constitutional maybe they were but also ethical and democratic . in venezuela after the two thousand and fifteen crisis the part of the right wing opposition started boycotting elections. they asked the un not to send experts who could determine whether fraud had been attempted. democracy in venezuela goes into turmoil this is the government solely responsible or is it also the ghost of the two thousand and two coup.

several coup instigators will never go to prison and will form the hard core of the right wing opposition. it's interesting that. many of the opposition politicians today in venezuela were involved in some way or another in the coup d'etat of april. two thousand and two. some of those politicians will continue to receive funding from american organizations like the ne d. . the. ends of congress dole is to venezuela.

when the political crisis hit the streets many politicians exploited public frustration and transformed caracas into a battlefield. thoughts of the opposition resorted to extreme violence. he had a. bad mistake mechanism responded cruelly and indiscriminately dozens were killed on both sides and many ended up in prison. when independent u.n. expert alfred desirous visited caracas. he persuaded the government to release eighty prisoners are. just flat out he insists though that some should be in prison

and should be considered political prisoners. on the subject of political prisoners he said we should look at europe as well. they are four persons. politicians who are. in jail. now these four. politicians are clearly political prisoners. whereas in venezuela many of the detainees were detained because acts of violence. they were. detained

because they were just expressing their. desire to be independent. to be sure that they're all political prisoners in spain i went to barcelona to visit a fellow journalist. on public t.v. carlist but outs for most. people couldn't say so. at least not on a. big. and he called. who said what kinds of words we can use when we speak about people that are in prison. just

saying that we cannot use. the terms political prisoners for example. because i honestly couldn't believe that in a european country a judge could decide what words a journalist could use. i stayed to watch the broadcast and i heard a breaking story. that i would also but i'm not going to. come out of. there. buddy. as joe di sun shows was not allowed to speak to journalists i left the studio and

went to meet his wife. maybe a fellow or spending on what fare. home to hannah in the theater kay if you're not from christmas go to. bed or seen. officer. told him to get up off the ground. down. there on the sounds of. the grown man like wrestling essentially. through his. twisted away from the officer. of his crew.

the obvious or did they kind of lunge for the weapon ones missed and then what happened on three swung. didn't hit him i never saw any contact with. any kind of went back to where they were so the officers back here there again fifteen feet apart at this point and that's when the officer his gun and tree. for a single purpose. they have a super. star training very young. eight months of intensive school. rats. and they save lives.

and on. friday mornings would not march the day that was supposed to be a story for britain not divorced from the instead the country is left with. the state rushes into faith in every single election in america since two thousand and four the george w. bush era. out for. and races are now in french universities slammed for students production of a greek.