we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. the more i tried to understand venezuela the more i could see the signs of all solitary an ism emerging on my continent as well. however what venezuela's critics didn't dare do was compare human rights issues to those in other countries on the american continent. civil and political rights have been violated in venezuela. but they are violated every day in colombia and

they are violated every day in mexico and they are violated every day in brazil. what i call human rights. what i call selective integration. you schol enormous in the nation with regard to one country. and you keep quiet with regard to many other countries where the situation is many times worse. in brazil the police killed fourteen people a day on average. the colombian army killed ten thousand civilians between two thousand and two and two thousand and ten. that doesn't include hundreds of political activists assassinated every year by powell ability groups tolerated or even supported by the authorities. even. in the usa. people in two thousand and eighteen.

some of those countries have called for military intervention in venezuela to protect so they say its citizens. we have troops all over the world this place has a very very far away venezuela is not very far away and the people are suffering and they're dying we have many options for venezuela including a possible military option if necessary. i'm always careful when we talk about south and central america and the cia there's a lot of stories. we are very hopeful that there could be a transition of venezuelans i was just down in mexico city and in bogota week before last talking about this very issue trying to help them understand the things they might do so that they can get a better outcome for c.n.n.

can now confirm the president trump asked a number of his top foreign policy advisers last summer about the possibility of invading venezuela thank you. and now opposition needs you on honda has declared himself the country's new president have you also the president of the united states for any military support in your struggle by and saw it on the market as he's going to and i would in terms of taking decisions that even though this is a dictatorship the little people want to advance with whatever pressure is needed this is no time for dialogue this is time for. any negotiations with

nicolas maduro. no. the strange thing about the coup and threat of invasion is that they didn't just come from the usa. supporters of the right wing opposition asked for a foreign country to invade theirs. and i made the mistake of answering one of them . i told him it had happened in greece back in the days of nazi collaborators. i hadn't noticed that the person had hundreds of thousands of followers on twitter . dozens of them offered to teach me new expressions in english and spanish. using teaching methods from the t.v.

series norco's. call. either who day. key. was when i received an interesting message. i had just been given my next mission my dear twitter friends explained that if i was a real journalist and wanted to understand venezuela i had to go to the border with colombia. they were absolutely right. that night i boarded a bus with dozens of venezuelans leaving the country. just

a nation the border crossing out in colombia. a place where the local mafia random to members of colombia's civil war paramilitary groups me to operate only. for breakdowns one flat tire and an attack with stones flying past my head resulted in a nineteen hour journey. and plenty of time to read international press articles on venezuela's immigrants and refugees. from reuters to the daily mirror dozens of stories repeating that the case here resembles syria and the people of myanmar. they compared an economic crisis to civil war and genocide.

in the news i mostly saw people leaving the country here i could see a few returning to venezuela even within a day. that they see. humanity even. one. at the colombian border i experienced one of the many side effects of economic collapse but i learned nothing new about what caused it. surprisingly i found more answers in a town just forty kilometers east of san cristobal.

hundreds of vehicles queued for hours at gas stations. this was another artificial shortage caused by private. smugglers collaborating with local offices buying gas and other government subsidized commodities in colombia. taking advantage of that as well as price controls contraband goods have become a lucrative business in neighboring colombia where these products can sell for prices at least ten times more it is estimated that almost forty percent of them this will is food is illegally transported across the border. hiding food away in storage for political and economic purposes is bad enough.

not being able to find gasoline when you have the biggest oil reserves is a real. especially when the government provides gas almost feel free. to understand what was going on i had to return to caracas where the gasoline flows generously.

as i couldn't reconcile the oil production in my mind i decided to walk somebody who's been. following venezuela's energy policy professor carlos mendoza. a consultant on energy issues for the central bank of venezuela. we know they are we picking. the areas he's. been the last one he never seen it. you know again not a moment. and it breaks your way. but i thank you all i know. according to international media of venezuela failed even though it's been proved

to have the world's biggest oil reserves. is that really true. elim facias. king in fueling these. relief and i know you know. i mean also. is ahead of the game. on their petroleum sorting out you know. where that. thing. is it will go. get a sale. for me. this. local the way they say the willing to put on that island. but up on through.

good to know. so you know. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful ready. to sit down and talk.

smoke i don't like going to the meeting month to month one of them for appointments you know memos done a lot of photos and stuff to get a. lot of money but. that's what. she was human. jungle. book to go to the british. family. i mean she got. to. join me every day on the alex simon sure and i'll be speaking to guest of the world

of politics sport this. yes i'm show business i'll see that. even without the all right note venezuela has a lot of oil. so how did it get into its current situation. many people told me that it suffers from a strange disease. and familial and there's a second bottle. they can see it with. because it's called the dutch disease and i thought i should go to whole and good judgment. sadly

we see that many obese countries and up with much worse economic performance much worse in a call to you much more poverty than before the end or well for the gas well for the mineral wealth so that's been cold i'm dr that's me call the dutch disease. the dutch disease is something which is taught in the netherlands not in the schools one of the main gas export to get old is gassy holding on the north part of holland. as a result of the gas being exported it was a lot of extra mom for the guild or for the dutch currency that pushed up the value of the guild and the made in very strong currency but as a result of that the rest of the industry that was became less competitive found a more difficult to export to bowl so although we were wealthy in terms of gas industry evil suffering and might be causing on the point.

venezuela has suffered from the dutch disease since the. nine hundred thirty s. when oil income was converted into holidays clothes and mentions for the elite. see economy still. going up if you had to but do you and that's you're not a safety moron upolu. know. enough of these infants who will. be always one of the most though. well good luck if we see a bank we'll get but of the moon. without the capital good luck in the. ears of people of course. all of it bog us unions.

as wouldn't kill the dutch disease. but for the first time an oil revenue wasn't going to the elite well lots of foreign multi-nationals. let's look first at the old times and shove estoril still alive then chavez put a lot of the money over the oil the huge oil money eventually gets into helping the people of venezuela so he put it into the education system and put it into the health care system and if you can poverty. whatever bad things you can see about travis' death was true what happened afterwards and his successes. is a different story now we do have a story about the old price was too high but more and more money went to the elites the poor people who are suffering the most and by the poor people you go dryads you go rest and then they got hit by the person that could have happened when it's

raining to any oil rich country that the old price collapsed. from the usa. for this purpose we're going to announce sanctions against. the state. we're looking at the oil. big. economic.

as well as the official exchange rate for the. facebook page. changed. by controlling. anyone.

so. this is. two opposing sides have been trying to explain the crisis in venezuela. suffering is caused by american sanctions and internal economics. that theory is based on reality explains everything and is often used as an excuse.

to blame for. venezuela has affected a prosperous nation. free for all socialist economic model social this is not a failed socialist state. socialist venezuela this is the socialist dilemma was it socialism i don't think so because actually during the period when you know the vast majority of the creator were in the private sector. they didn't come

anywhere near say france which has fifty five percent. even when chavez nationalized companies mainly of the oil sector the private sector grew more rapidly than the public sector. venezuela was therefore never a socialist country. and even its greatest opponents knew it. when its economic growth rate was double that of the usa and poverty was down by fifty percent. international media attributed the growth to capitalism. but when the crisis struck socialism was blamed.

of the two made narratives putting the blame on sanctions or on socialism the reality i saw in venezuela was much more complex. and maybe both dull. very a revolution inherited all the structural problems that the economy had faced in the twentieth century. the dutch disease the destroyed production high inflation and huge inequalities. but for the first time while revenues did not flow into the hands of the few and foreign oil companies. that were distributed to the people . then under constant economic.

all those problems old and new. and the rich.

there was something. in the sixty's and seventy's. but that's not acceptable today.

george w. bush the president of the united states government of iraq and the future of your country. belongs to you. in the battle of iraq the united states and our allies have prevailed. what we can do and will do is support the aspirations of the libyan people. the soft side. i might perhaps the vice president of the united states and on behalf of president donald trump and all the american people. let me express the unwavering support of

the united states is you the people of venezuela raise your voices in a call for freedom.

i think the numbers mean they've mattered us with over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime happened to. eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to be rich eight point six percent world market rose was sent home with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and that one rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a all you industrial park but don't let the numbers over. the only number you need to remember one one the board in that one and only whom. is an officer. told him to get up off the ground yasser began to pat him down. democrats on the sounds of kind of fighting in the grown man like mislead

especially the officer. who threw his or trying. to push their way from the office or the joy out of his crib. the obvious or did they kind of lunge for the weapon once missed and then when it happened on tree swung at the observations didn't hit him i never saw any contact between the two any kind went back to where they were so the officers back here there try again fifteen feet apart at this point and that's when the officer pulled out his gun and he did it on three. was.

britain's brags that nightmare prime minister maizie you divorce deal is defeated for a third time leading to fears of a disorderly exit from the block in just two weeks. really troops reportedly shoot four palestinians dead as tens of thousands rally along the perimeter fence between gaza and israel to mark one year since the beginning of the great march of return protests. competing protests venezuela as hundreds of supporters of both president nicolas maduro and opposition leader won by do take to the streets meanwhile the u.s. threatens russia with further sanctions if moscow refuses to pull its troops out of that as well.