the problem in venezuela is not that socialism has been poorly implemented but that socialism has been faithfully implemented. 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 force it into. however its agreed measures that tie the country up until twenty sixty and started mass privatisation. 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 there is on difference. in this country of mass depression however there was one word that awakens the political fervor of the. venezuela. to. put us. off the supporting cast we seized up able to see if it is let up on up there would send them the busy. on another human as well again not good no not though.

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 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 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 money can only be coming out because i wanted to see life in the barrios the slums of caracas gatecrash rich winnings i have a good piano and i wanted to be to young people assists and 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 haven'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. and 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 a medicine is 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. had i stumbled on the first proof that socialism had failed in venezuela. the moment. i.

was one of venezuela's most eminent economists she's never hidden her support for the bolivarian revolution of chavez. maybe. there is no humanitarian crisis in venezuela looming humanitarian crisis mean yet as if it is the. crisis in crisis humanitarian crisis humanity carried on 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 beat former u.n. independent expert. alfred desires. he just returned from caracas. people also seem to have a problem with the humanitarian crisis. that is a term of art. 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 gadhafi american military.

blazing but with food for everybody is that is correct but the humanitarian aid would have to be secured by guys with guns. all recently there are certain items that are missing. because production. trade distribution is entirely in private hands it is not government direct so if you have a considerable portion of the wealth 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.

don't think so yeah. the minute. episode of the. mainland. according to the central bank of venezuela products were missing before the constitutional referendum and regional elections of two thousand and seven. for 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. at washington follows all economic developments he believes that america's sanctions are killing people in venezuela.

when obama first imposed the 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 him at seattle no he needs that don't mean a woman who has a must if you see a b. and he says yeah look i'm like me coming behind me but i limp. lived all the things that see on the city's had their way they claimed. it under less from

a muffin i said in that message that in super meant to call the talban. 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. or refuse to deal with venezuela or do not deliver. in the month of november or the crisis. in the province. and. they couldn't get the malaria 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 the blame belongs. how can we condemn. the government of venezuela. when we ourselves are causing this car city. i do think the numbers in something they've matter to us are the one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime families each day. eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to be ultra rich eight foot six percent world

market those thirty percent some with four hundred five hundred three first second first second and fifth when he rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember in one one business shows you know forth to miss the one and only boom box. that spreads for a single purpose. they have a superman. they start training very young. eight months of intensive schooling. rats. and they save lives.

private owners 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 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 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 richard helms writes it down.

they hinted at tagging. in fourth down will last through no more but a small but i'm able this in indonesia has to see him to know it's the end all be any good seeing him bad well planned on upset about. this with the center so no mass and incomplete. simple. better looking at more of. the.

back of the. goings. goal. but i guess. in venezuela's case the media attacks will be based on a well used recipe. everyone has to be convinced that. dictators 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. 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 that. was the decision ethical. point may not be qualified to say. in my country as well as an entirely the banker was appointed prime minister. and a referendum was ignored. in europe we cancelled a total of five referendums because the citizens haven'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. 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 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. . 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 to get off you had a sad 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 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. 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. public t.v. carlos put out its terms. 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 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 heard a breaking story. but i'm not going to. come out of any love out. there. in she stays but he cut out. as joe di sanchez was not allowed to speak to journalists i left the studio and

went to meet his wife. made a list. of what. you now know and if he had a k a yes or no from christmas because . he. knows that impressed me they asked when he. joined me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world the politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see that. you know world of big partisan movies a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that

mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. now and there was a crack seized to do crack when i was a look at my dad he was like i must be so you know i got like what i needed when i was a baby but i had a bad childhood. there's always playing. single mothers and african american community service and slavery. i think it's more of teenagers having kids in

you can expect a fourteen or fifteen year old first daughter now order for and then be a father and he said check out. the last place on. my car and breaking down i was unable to get to work on time so they let me go with my paycheck that i bring home. early enough to pay my car insurance .

in the week that was britain's should be out of the european union instead it is still left in limbo while prime minister to reserve my struggles to hang on to power and get a deal through parliament. no rush of collusion in the twenty sixteen us presidential elections the long awaited report finally came out the week plus. government rallies across france again as yellow first protest rally for the twentieth consecutive week.