and then dying we have many options for venezuela including a process of 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 its away down on the amount of us he's going to have disagreement 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. 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 home 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. goods 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 meet up regularly. 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 they see the main 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 owners. collaborating with local offices by gas and other government subsidized commodities in colombia. taking advantage of price controls. 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 this will is food is illegally transported across the border.

hiding food. 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.

decided to somebody who's been following venezuela's energy policy professor issues for the central bank of venezuela. you know. what i thank. god.

according to international media of venezuela. even though it's been proved to have the world's biggest oil reserves. is that really true. only for i know you know. that. when you. get a sale. this.

will include gold. standing person because. as he took on the most powerful agency in this county for you and me to stay if you look at it from the analogy. marc was the day that when he was fighting the goliath. do going to has been the sheriff's most contentious could take the he is the first time i noticed something wasn't right in fleece work pretty much when i first started the corruption in palm beach county is not something that you can smell it seems like a bad it's a nod and

a wink is wasn't what i wanted to do you. had collectively so good went to his website began featuring comments about gold his family the sheriff mike carona squash you like a bug you know i wish you'd stop clinician's their adolescent stuff and believe what i'm doing also it's ok you know it's your funeral boating and p.b.s. and critic dude in this house. i snuck out of the united states. into russia political slime. men they know bad wolf. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to go from fields

where everything is familiar on the other i want to the new challenge and the fresh perspective i'm used to surprising. or not if you think. i'm going to talk about football not for you or else you can think i was going to go. by the way ways of the. politicians. they put themselves on the line and they did accept the reject. so when you want to be president. or similar three of them or can't be good get. interested always in the waters in the hottest. first city. or. even

without the all right ok reserves 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 they see a bug. phil mickelson. they think you see you can see. through it a bit. because it's called the dutch disease and i thought i should go to whole and good judgment. sadly we see that many of these countries and the 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 my soap has been called the dutch disease. the dutch disease is something which is taught in the mountainous not in the schools one of the main gas export to get old is gussy 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 him for. a strong currency but as a result of that the rest of the industry that has became less competitive found a more difficult to export abroad 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 to but who you are not you're not a safety moron up close you're not going to know. enough of these orphans who will. be always one of them i thought. well good luck if we see a bank we'll get but at the moon. they did a good bit of good luck getting. the ball in the bog. 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. that it was true first of the old times

and chavez forced to live then chavez put a lot of the money over the oil the huge oil money eventually gets into helping the people of venezuela as 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 trevor's death most true what happened often was his successes. is a different story now we do have a story about the old price was still high but more and more money went to the elites the poor. from the usa. for this purpose we're going to announce sanctions against.

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two opposing sides have been trying to explain the crisis in venezuela. suffering is caused by american sanctions and internal economic sabotage. explained everything and is often used as an excuse. socialism is to blame for. venezuela has affected

a prosperous nation. free for all. this is not a. socialist venezuela this is the socialist dilemma. i don't think so because actually during the period when you know the vast majority of the creator were in the private sector. anywhere near. fifty five. years. 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.

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 destroyed. people. mainly and. all those problems old and new came to the surface. and the rich who was still rich.

when. there was something more. christian. didn't achieve. in the sixty's and seventy's. but that's not acceptable today. must be crushed.

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 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 freedom.

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