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 pal of military groups tolerated or even supported by the authorities. even in the usa the police killed almost a thousand people in two thousand and eighteen. politicians in some of those countries have called for military intervention in venezuela to protect so they say its citizens. if we have troops all over the world the 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 as a way down on the amount of us he's going to meet 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 then as. 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. easy 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. the place where the local mafia random to members of colombia's civil war paramilitary groups me to operate only. for breakdowns one flat tire found 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 row him people of my own. they compared an economic crisis to a 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. they see. those humanity even.

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.

almost. as i couldn't reconcile production in my mind i decided to walk somebody who's been . following venezuela's energy policy professor carlos mendoza patella. a consultant on energy issues for the central bank of venezuela. we begin. with. the kids who he's. been the last one he never see. or nah. you know again not a moment. and it breaks your way though 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. being. shown these. relief and i know you know. is ahead of. you on their petroleum sorting out you know.

where that. thing. is it will. give us a feel. for me. doing this he called the way to his head and willing to put it on the ballot. but up and if you don't. push one could kill. me so you don't. just manufacture consent to. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the flame and larry go

around listen to the woman post so. we can all middle of the room six. million real news. there was a crack seems to do crack when i was a little kid my dad he was like oh just so you know i got like what i needed when i was a baby boy i had a bad childhood. there's always playing single mothers and african-american community service and slavery. i think it's more of a issue these teenagers having kids in you can expect a fourteen or fifteen year old first daughter now order for him if you're far there

and he said check out. we actually lost our place and. 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 barely enough to pay my car insurance. but gas in my car. join me every thursday on the all excitement and i'll be speaking to get us out of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. i think more doogan is an outstanding person because he took on the most powerful agency in this county for you to state if you look at it from. mark was the day that when he was fighting the. most

contentious critics say he is the first time i noticed something wasn't in fleece work pretty much when i first started the corruption in palm beach county it's not something that you can smell it. it's. a wing it wasn't what i wanted to do. in this county then some states have had. to go and went to his website began featuring. the sheriff by then. you know we should stop then you should say on the left and stuff i believe what i'm doing ok you know it's your funeral. critic in this house. i snuck out of the united states. into russia political. men they

know. even with. venezuela has a loss of oil. so how did it get into its current situation. many people told me that it suffers from a strange disease. and . they can see you prefer. because it's called the dutch disease and i thought i should go to whole and.

sadly we see that many of these 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 or the mineral wealth so that's been cold on my so called the dutch disease. the dutch disease is something which is taught in the middle of this not in the schools one of the main gas exports you get all this gas he 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 maiden very strong currency but as a result of that the rest of the industry than it was became less competitive found a more difficult to export to bowl so although we were well through in terms of gas

our industry was suffering and my to 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. say economy still. but. these will. get but at the. good luck in the.

book. is wouldn't kill the dutch disease. but for the first time well revenue wasn't going to the elite well what's a foreign multinationals. let's move first of the old times and shove estoril still alive then chavez put a lot of the money over the oil the huge oil money even sure that gets to 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 a bunch of his death most true ones have a mouth was his successes. is a different story now we do have a story about the old price was too high but more money went to the needs of the

poor people who are suffering the most by the poor people you go dryads rest and then they go to hit by the bush administration at any old rich country that the old price collapse. along with the oil price collapse came a financial in from the usa. podium over to stephen for this purpose we're going to announce sanctions against petroleum to venezuela associates were paid if they says it's known by its spanish acronym the state owned oil monopoly we're looking at the oil assets that's the single most important income stream to the government of venezuela it will make a big difference to the united states economically if we could have american oil companies really invest in and produce the oil capabilities in venezuela. had i reached the source of the absurdity in venezuela's economy.

then when i tried to exchange the dollars i had with me. as well as the official exchange rate for the dollar as a parallel black market right. merchants could find the prevailing black market exchange rate from a facebook page. now things have changed they can find it on instagram. the administrator is. going to look. maybe an opponent of the regime in the usa some say well maybe.

one thing was certain by controlling that exchange rate anyone could citizens against their government. or make. a fake. song. while that. two opposing sides have been trying to explain the crisis in venezuela. for government supporters the suffering is caused by american sanctions and internal economic sabotage. that theory is based on reality. used as an excuse.

socialism is to blame. for all. this is not a. socialist. because actually during the. you know the.

fifty. years. even when. companies mainly of. the public. knew it. when its economic growth rate was. fifty percent. media rich. the gross to capitalism.

when the crisis struck socialism was blamed on. six six. of the two main narratives putting the blame on sanctions or on socialism the reality i saw in venezuela was much more complex. and maybe both dull. chavez's bolivarian 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 war huge mistakes were made mainly in monetary policy. when oil prices collapsed all those problems old and new came to the surface. the ball was still poor and the rich who was still rich decided to take revenge. i. travelled far trying to understand why when my country and europe was sinking in a crisis somewhat concerned about toilet paper in venezuela.

there was something.

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 came you saw i.

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.

officer. told him to get up off the ground sir began to pet him down the. democrats on the sounds of animating him seem to me grown man like mislead essentially. through his. twisted away from the officer. of his group. the obvious or did they kind of lunge for the web in one smith's and they would have been done she swung at the observations didn't hit them i never saw any contact with you had you any kind of went back to where they were so the answer is back here they're try again fifteen feet apart at this point and that's when the officer pulled out his gun and he did it on three.

hopes and he. put them so. big it except the reject. so when you want to be president. wanted. to go a person was like them before three of them or can't be good. interested always in the waters of. course. feast. was. going. on i know that was the elite i.

was. in that week it was britain should be out of the european union by now instead it's still in limbo this weekend while prime minister struggles to get a deal through part of. no from russia collusion of the twenty sixteen us presidential elections the long awaited weather report finally came out in a week but. i. government rallies again across france as yellow vest protest is money for the twentieth consecutively.