people in two thousand and eighteen. patients in some of those countries have called the military intervention in venezuela to protect so they say its citizens. but we have troops over the world that places 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 one 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 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 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. dozens of them offered to teach me. a. call. either whole day.

key. was when i received i had just been given my next mission my deah 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. destination 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. four breakdowns one flat tire and an attack with stones flying past my head resulted in

a ninety in our 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.

you many of the base. 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. smugglers collaborating with local offices buying gas and other government subsidized commodities and sell them 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. political and economic purpose 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 watch somebody who's been following venezuela's energy policy professor carlos mendoza. a consultant on energy issues for the central bank of them as well.

you know again not a moment there ain't don't think. it breaks your way. but i thank you. 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. he's. on there but sorting out you know. where that.

thing. is it will go. get a sale. dealing with this. local de lay has said and willing to put on that island. but up until. will include good old. embezzling so you don't. wrong. all. i mean you get to shape

out these days to come out to it and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. they're bred for a single purpose. they have a superman. they start training very young. eight months of intensive school. rats. and they save life.

left. i. think that. the law. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next about different clubs on one hand it is logical to sort of go from fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and a fresh perspective i'm used to surprising people and i saw one on t.v. . i'm going to talk about football not the or else if you think i was going to go.

by the way ways of that's like here. even without the 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 for a mill and there's a scene. here and. they can see people. 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 they had to oil wealth for the gas well

for the mineral wealth so that's been cold. called the dutch disease. the dutch disease is something which starts in the sneddon's will swarm of the main gas export to get all this gas he holding on the north part of holland around 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 will suffer am i 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. but. no. well. we see a bank will give but if the move. is that people. 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.

thompson chavez full still alive then chavez spawned a lot of the money over the oil the huge oil money that is really 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 through what have been offered. 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 incredible people you go dryads you go rest and then they go to hit by the bush administration that any oil rich country is that the old price collapse. along with the oil price collapse came a financial in balgo from the usa. petroleum venezuela associate the name were paid if they says it's known by its spanish acronym the state 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. and i reached the source of the absurdity in venice. i get them when i try 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. them enough they. saw. two opposing sides of being trying to explain the crisis in venezuela.

the government supporters the suffering is caused by american sanctions and internal economic sabotage. that theory is based on reality but can't explain everything and is often used as an excuse.

this is not. this is the socialist. because actually during the. you know the. fifty five. years. even when. companies.

when its economic growth rate was. fifty percent. but when the crisis struck socialism was blamed on. the two may narrow it was putting the blame on sanctions or on socialism the reality i saw in venezuela was much more complex. and maybe.

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.

george w. bush the president of the united states government of iraq and the future of your country. along 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 song. 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. thanks

guys it's financial survival. when customers go by you're just. good elf well reduce and lower. that's undercutting but what's good for markets is not good for the global economy. right now if there was a crisis seems to do crack when i was a locate 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. i think it's more of a issue these teenagers having kids and you can't expect a fourteen or fifteen year old first daughter now order for him to be your father 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 nearly enough to pay my car insurance. take gas in my car. what politicians do something. to put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to be rich. but you want to be close it's like that before three of them or can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of my. question. their brains for a single purpose. they have

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a wink it wasn't what i wanted to do. we've had more shootings in this county then some states have had collectively drug and went to his website if you like a book 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. p.b.s. and critic house. i snuck out of the united states. into russia political. men they know bad wolf. facebook calls for global internet rules for governments to play a more active role in regulating. elsewhere comedian plus some lenski leads the polls in the first round of ukraine's presidential elections so he's taken

thirty percent of the book. hi there good morning it's just so they tell you monday the first of april live from moscow with me kevin i would have you stay with me for the next thirty minutes or so.