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wing promise to force an end to austerity. however it agreed measures that tie the country up until twenty sixty and started mass privatisation of. voters on the left 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 death row. in this country of mass depression however there was one word that awakens the political fervor of the past. venezuela. that's. just the supporting case we see these days but up able to see if it is let up on up
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impulse and the end of the movie scene. the next moment is well again i'm 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 murder. soon as i got off the plane i'd be kidnapped. or die of hunger
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or disease. will rot in prison. venezuela's capital is india. however the people there do have fun like we do they exercise much like us. children eat ice cream and some. surprisingly nobody tried to kill kidnap or imprison me when i arrived. during those first few hours i saw venezuela had fallen victim to the biggest propaganda plot of the twenty first century.
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i wanted to see life in the barrios the slums of caracas a crash which winnings i am i wanted to be to young people learn from 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. so i went off to explore venezuela's public health care system. i 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 times. little's
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lack 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.
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the same. person. many people are mad that. there is no humanitarian crisis in venezuela the looming humanitarian crisis that is if it is the reason for humanitarian crisis in crisis humanitarian crisis humanity current 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. people also seem to have a problem with the term human. syrian crisis. that is
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a term of art. that tedham me most technique was. you used the term humanitarian crisis. a pretext to advance 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 it correct but the humanitarian aid would have to be secured by guys with guns. there are certain items that are missing why because production. trade distribution is entirely in private hands it is not direct so if you have
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a considerable portion of the. 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 in distribution that cetera et cetera so i. see. the money. up the side of the. mill and.
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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 after 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 venice. when obama first imposed these sanctions on individuals because they violate the swimming 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
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a big step further and really did make it nearly impossible for the venezuelan economy recover temperamental that it will kill for him at seattle no he meet them coming a woman who has some might if he still. be and he says sally quinn with me coming behind me but i limp out of the book at all that all the facets see on the fifth really sad that they claim that. it can be less from second life and i said in that message that but in superman to conduct album. 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 those medicines often enough the countries either refuse
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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 there 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 to india and china etc there is a problem most cars that deal insulin but that is because of the boycott i mean put the blame where the blame belongs. how can we condemn the government of venezuela. when we ourselves are
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causing the car city. officer. to get up off the ground serve begin to pay him down. and then freeze on the sounds of an mit grown man the christening essentially the officer. john. twisted away from the officer been once missed and then when it happened on trace one and i didn't hit him i never saw any contact with. any kind 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 pulled out his gun and even turned three.
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i know there was a crack seems to do crack when i was a locate my dad he was like a must be so you know like what i needed when i was a baby but i had a big childhoods. there's always been single mothers in african-american communities ever since slavery. i think it's more of these teenagers having kids and you can't expect a fourteen or fifteen year old first daughter now order for him maybe your father and he's a check out. we actually lost our place in october my car end up breaking down and i was unable to get to work on time so they let me go in with my paycheck that i bring home i have nearly enough to pay my car insurance . but gas in my car.
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i maxed kaiser with more of my guide to financial survival this is. a device used by professional scallywags to earn money. that's right these as far as are simply not accountable and we're just adding more and more to them. totally destabilize the global economy you need to protect yourself and get in for god's good as we. drive you don't as holding products in times of political unrest american sanctions the queues for foods and medicines. this i've seen before.
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in november nine hundred seventy socialist salvador allende 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 mean. 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
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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 to tell us that it would not be tolerated 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
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richard helms writes it down. he hinted at tagging. in order to be down one has to know more about his. but i'm able to maintain the distance to him to not see the end of the end in your neck in seeing him bad well planned on upset about. this with the center so no mass and incomplete there's. simply. nothing more out of . the.
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norm. back in. some things 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
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experts like the carter center. over ninety two elections men are monitored i would say that the election process in voters' where is the best in the world. 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
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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 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 the gun bill. was a decision ethical. i may not be qualified to say.
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in my country as well as an entirely 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 they 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.
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democracy in venezuela goes into turmoil 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
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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.
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when independent un expert alfred desireless visited caracas. he persuaded the government to release eighty prisoners are. just flat 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
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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. public t.v. carlos pouts. he explained that even if the political prisoners he couldn't say so. at least not on. who said
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what kinds of words we can use when we speak about people that are in prison. just say 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. but i'm not going to. come out of.
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there. buddy. as jody sanchez was not allowed to speak to journalists i left the studio and went to meet his wife. he. made me sad oh it's kind of on what face a. scene and if he had again a yes or no from princess pony bedo if he is a lesson to her who thought yes a second i do seem ok here is that interesting fortunately they asked what do you think. they're bracing for a single purpose. of
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a super. face dog training very young. eight months of intensive school. rats. and they save lives. several 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 leverage than lehman brothers or bear stearns ever was there the most leverage hedge funds that we've ever seen in the history and hedge fund skullduggery but it doesn't matter because they can print and buy back their own debt in an instant cycle profitless prosperity and then one day like wiley coyote over the cliff chasing the road runner there's that moment of recognition and then.
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smoke. them in their mug them up on the limb for one of them to know them better than one photo of himself to get a. close up look. just as. she. looks to go to the british were stepping up themselves. i mean.
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if. britain's bricks and nightmare prime minister to resign made divorce deal is defeated for a third time leading to fears of a disorderly exit from the bloc in just two weeks time. people are reported dead as tens of thousands rally along the perimeter fence between gaza and israel to mark one year since the beginning of the. protest. the us threatens russia with further sanctions if moscow refuses to pull its troops out of venezuela. either thanks for choosing r.t.
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international this weekend for your new song called him at the alter a new center in moscow.

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