free and then 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 you got by as a way down on the amount of us he's going to and i wouldn't 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 you. 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 whole day. key. was when i received an interesting message.

i had just been given my next mission. 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. place where the local mafia random to members of colombia's civil war paramilitary groups meet operate only. for breakdowns one flat tire found an attack with stones flying past my head resulted in a nineteen hour journey. 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. started. those

many of the base. 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 have to return to caracas where the gasoline

flows generously. 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 began. the series.

it gave us what we never see. or nah. you know again not a moment. and i. want to thank you all. well. according to international media of venezuela. even though it's been proved to have the world's biggest oil reserves. really true. he's. being. shown these. relief and i know you know. he's. there

but. you know. you have that. thing. with what you. get in saying. this. willing to put on the ballot. will include you know. so you know.

stacy. let's say i'm in. the fight. thank you for. the story that's right. that's labor. i mean more to gain is an outstanding person because he took on the most powerful agency in this county or you'll be to stay if you look at it from the analogy. marc was the day that when he was. going to be in the sheriff's most contentious critics say he is the first time i noticed something wasn't infamous work pretty much when i first started the corruption in palm beach county is not something that you can smell or thing like it's a nod and a wink it wasn't what i wanted to do. we've

had more shootings in this county then some states have had. to go and went to his website began featuring. his family the sheriff might. wash you like a bug you know i wish you'd stop then you should stay on the left and stuff i believe what i'm doing ok you know it's your funeral. in this house. i snuck out of the united states. into russia. political. men they know. the numbers. they matter us with over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime. eighty five percent of. the. old bridge

eight point six percent world market thirty percent somewhat four hundred five hundred three first second per second and fifth we 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 one one business showed you know ford the mid one and only boom but. even without the all right no car was a 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 scene. here and. they think it's c.d.c. people. because it's cold the dutch disease i thought i should go to holland. 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 dutch myself that's been called the dutch disease. the dutch disease is something which is taught in that sneddon's will swarm of the main. gas

exports get all this gas he holding up the north part of holland. as a result of the gas being exported it was a lot of extra demond for the guilder for the dutch currency that pushed up the value of the giver and the made in very strong currency but as a result of that the rest of the industry in the netherlands became less competitive found a more difficult to export dubourg 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. sea economy so. you had that but you are not you are not safety more on uploads you . know.

now these are friends who will. be always when i must go. home but i get we see a bank will get but of the moon. good luck getting. on with bog us indians. as wouldn't kill the dutch disease. but for the first time an oil revenue wasn't going to the elite or to foreign multinationals. let's look first at the old times and chavez has to live then chavez put a lot of the money over the oil the huge oil money eventually gets into helping the

. people. so he put it into the education system into the health system. things he can see. his successes. is a different story now we do have a story. with more. people you go. rest and then they go to. tree. along with the oil price collapse came a financial in from the usa. for this purpose we're going to announce sanctions against. venezuela.

spanish acronym the state. we're looking at the oil assets. to the government of venezuela it will make a big difference to the united states economically if we could have american oil companies invest in. capabilities. and 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. black market right. find the prevailing black market exchange rate from a facebook page. now things have changed they can find it on instagram.

maybe. by controlling. anyone citizens against the government. saw.

two opposing sides have been trying to explain the crisis in venezuela. suffering is caused by. economic sabotage.

affected a prosperous nation. because venezuela is hell. isn't it socialist free for all socialist economic model socialist this is not a failed socialist state. socialist venezuela this is the socialist dilemma. because actually during the period you know the vast majority were in the private sector. they didn't come anywhere near say france which has fifty five percent of its g.d.p. is. more socialist than. even when chavez nationalized companies mainly in the oil sector the private sector grew more rapidly than the public sector and. venezuela

was therefore never a socialist country. and even its greatest opponents knew it. when its economic growth rate was doubled out of the usa and poverty was down by fifty percent. international media attributed the gross to capitalism. but when the crisis struck socialism was blamed. 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.

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 some was concerned about toilet paper in venezuela. some just wanted venezuela's oil and needed the pretext of humanitarian intervention. there was something more though. despite its mistakes and failures venezuela christian neo liberalism and the austerity imposed on the population by the elite. didn't achieve more than conservative governments would have in the sixty's and seventy's. but that's not acceptable today. and anyone who deviates must be crushed.

some say. 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. 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.

as an officer of the told to get up off the ground the officer began to head them down. and then place on the sounds of kind of fighting him i mean grown man like wrestling essentially the officer who. drew his. wish to

go away from the officer. of his crew. the obvious or did they kind of lunge for the weapon once missed and then what happened on three swung at the officers hands didn't hit him i never saw any contact with. any kind of 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. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy thing for him to let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.

now if there was a crack seems to do crack when i was a little kid my dad he was like. us at the so you know i got like what i needed when i was a baby but i had a bad childhood. there's always been single mothers and african american community service and slavery. i think it's more of these teenagers having kids in you can expect a fourteen or fifteen year old first daughter now order for him maybe a far there and he said check out. we actually lost our place and. my car and breaking down and i was unable to get to work on time sunday let me go in with my paycheck that i bring home i have barely enough to pay my car insurance. gas in my car.

you know world of big partners. law and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made history media refuses to tell more than ever 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. we're watching closely for watching the hawks. you know that.

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