the problem in venezuela.

within a decade my country was ruined. it lost a quarter of its manufacturing. a million people emigrated and public debt kept rising. in twenty fifteen a government claiming to be a left wing promise to. go over its agreed measures that tie the country up until twenty sixty and started mess privatization. voters on the lift became depressed because it had succeeded with what the right hadn't. the right was depressed because they knew they'd lost their is on different. in this country of mass depression however there was one word that awakens the political fervor of the. venezuela.

that's. the supporting cast we see. steve it is up and up and would send them off the easy . on of those women as well again not going to go. when 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 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 low colombia. 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 tried 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. and on the evening out. i wanted to see life in the barrios the slums of caracas gatecrash which winnings i could be and when i wanted to be to young people insisted workers see what they do for fun. what they eat how they vote what newspapers they read 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 off to explore all venezuela's public health care system . 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. as one of venezuela's most eminent economists she's never hidden her support for the bolivarian revolution of. tennis. maybe.

there is no humanitarian crisis in venezuela looming humanitarian crisis mean yet if you. think 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. and to prove it they went to geneva to meet former u.n. independent expert. alfred desires. he just returned from caracas. people also seems to have a problem with the humanitarian crisis. that is a term of art said ted i mean most technique was. 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. but with food for everybody is that it 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 government directed so if you have a considerable portion of the wealthy. business

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. not. see. this said oh my god intends. seeing. the money. up the side of the. moon. 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 follows all economic developments he believes that america's sanctions are killing people in venezuela. when obama first imposed the missings 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 you not ca to know he needs them from being a woman to have some math if you see a. b. and he says yeah you might make a mean two hundred mean but i look at the. list all the things that see on the stingiest i had to claim. it to be less from second life and i say don't mess with that but in superman to call her 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 venezuela or do not deliver. we had in the month of november the crisis. in the province. and. they couldn't get to my lariam medicine from colombia they had to fly it in from india. so matter of fact. venezuela has been flying in from god knows how many countries to india and china etc there is a problem of course the deal insulin but that is because of the boycott i mean put the blame where. laws. how can we. we ourselves are

causing this car city. the great tragic comedy known as russia is slowly becoming part of history the resistance continues to resist but clearly the president has the wind at its back now is a time for a great awakening what are the lessons to be learned and can the liberal media recover from this fiasco. on the sounds of an mit grown man the christening essentially. did they kind of lunge for the web in.

contact with. any kind of went back to where they were back here there again part of this plane. is gone. private donors holding 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 and then they 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 going to. maybe just say oh you. know you know i'm going to. die and he 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 to eliminate the middle class opposition the bourgeois it would be

a class war approach. top secret sensitive eyes only. nixon already in september called in henry kissinger. that it would not be tolerated that in latin america an alternative. 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.

it will be hinted at. in order to become a lasting. but i'm able to mentally have to put him to not see the end all be any. seeing him bad well planned on upset about. this with the center so no mass and incomplete. simply. better looking in the eye to. the.

back of the. somethings by any 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 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. 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 hold a referendum on the formation of

a constitutional assembly that would remove the powers of the national assembly controlled by his opponents find. 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. before that. was the 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. to 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 office. 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. . 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 wanted of back the state mechanism responded cruelly and indiscriminately dozens were killed on both sides and many ended up in prison. when independent u.n. expert alfred desireless visited caracas. he persuaded the government to release eighty prisoners are. just black 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 the political prisoners in spain and i went to barcelona to visit a fellow journalist. public t.v. carlos pouts from which. he explained that even if the political prisoners he couldn't say so. at least not on. the. and he called. who said what kinds of words we can use when we speak about people that are in prison.

just said 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. also but i'm not going to. come out of a lot. in she states. as joe di sun shows was not allowed to speak to journalists i left the studio and

went to meet his wife. he. made a list that i knew i needed one. hundred fifty nine and if he had a k. a different from princess people bedo as he. is that impressed me they are. in terms of mr want to go home he's played a useful role but i think that the mistake he's made those for is not in that it's that he would not stand for president so to say to the venezuelan people in the international community i've done my role which i believe it's

a constitutional one is the interim president but don't look for me to. think if he were to do that the situation in venezuela will be perceived as less one of the states will. set a reserve bank the european central bank the bank of england the bank of japan they are fifty sixty seventy percent leveraged much more leverage than long term capital management ever was much more lovers and lehman brothers or bear stearns ever was there the most leverage hedge funds that we've ever seen in the history of hedge fund skullduggery but it doesn't matter because they can print and buy back their own cycle profitless prosperity and then one day like wiley coyote over the cliff chasing the road runner there's a moment of recognition and then. oh there you.

see. such konami foam on smoke by the only coming off of them a month to month one of them for appointments to november was done well so because of stuff to get a. lot of thought up was all but i just i think that. she was you make an. agenda but from the sun on my book you go to the british bush that's enough of them. i mean you got. to. take

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