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that's. nothing. that's. put us. up to supporting the case we see. steve it is going up on up impulse and the end of the movie scene and it was going on in those women as well again not good no not the. one a european country went through a crisis its politicians worried about toilet paper in latin america. i flew to caracas to find out.
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during the 11 hour flight i read all sorts of articles warning me that caracas is one of the most dangerous cities in the. if i wasn't murdered as soon as i got off the plane i'd be kidnapped. or die of hunger or disease. venezuela's capital is indeed amongst the most dangerous cities but so are dozens of cities in mexico brazil low colombia. 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 summer.
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surprisingly nobody tried to kill kidnap or imprison me when i arrived. during those 1st few hours i thought venezuela had fallen victim to the biggest propaganda plot of the 21st century. if not the only thing keeping out. i wanted to see life in the barrios the slums of caracas gatecrash rich weddings i am i wanted to be to young people assistant workers see what they do for fun what they eat how they vote what newspapers they read their favorite hobbies.
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until we got hit by a taxi and we were left in the middle of the street. the police who we haven't arrived within minutes. the ambulance that we did 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 medicines those nope. and in going. spare parts for the x.
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ray machines were missing to. find those i had to go to a private hospital. ready and i stumbled on the 1st proof that socialism had failed in venezuela. as one of venezuela's most eminent economists she's never hidden her support for the bolivarian revolution of. a. person. that many people are mad that. i had said to. me.
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that. there is no humanitarian crisis in venezuela looming humanitarian crisis mean yet as if it is the. crisis came out here in crisis humanitarian crisis humanity current 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 meet former u.n. independent expert. alfred desires. he just returned from caracas. people also seem to have a problem with the term humanitarian crisis. that is a term of art. that tedham me most technique was. you used the term
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humanitarian crisis as a pretext to advance 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 the american military. with food for everybody is that is correct but the humanitarian aid would have to be secured by guys with guns. there are certain items that are missing. because production. trade distribution is entirely in private hands it is not government directed so if you have a considerable portion of the. wealth the. business.
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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. do. see. the money. up the side of the. moon. according to the central bank of venezuela products were missing before the constitutional referendum and regional elections of 2007. before the presidential
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election of 2012 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. in washington followed. all economic development he believes that america's sanctions are killing people in venezuela. when obama 1st imposed these 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
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a big step further and really did make it nearly impossible for the venezuelan economy recover temperamental that it will kill for that ca to know he needs them from being a woman to have some math if you see a. b. and he says yeah look i'm with me coming behind me but i limped out of the book at all lived all the things that see on the city's had their way they claimed. it under less from long stick in my feet i said in that message that in superman to call his album. 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 refuse
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to deal with venezuela or do not deliver. we had in the month of november 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. has been flying in from god knows how many countries india and china etc there is a problem of scars to deal insulin but that is because of the boycott i think put the blame where the blame belongs and. how can we condemn the government of venezuela. when we ourselves are
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causing this car city. it was only days ago we were told the u.s. was preparing to strike iran for nonspecific reasons to deter nonspecific threats then the narrative simply disappeared into thin air just exactly what is the trumpet ministrations all see regarding the red clearest trump. lake says and she forms part of a high altitude nature reserve. it's one of the famous to total indonesia's principal waterway starts its journey. to the gulf can be summed up at the top of my got
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a septic tank. it runs 300 kilometers from source to mouth and there are over $200.00 industrial facilities ranged along its bankers. i'm not on your muscle. but. you do 3 things. i don't like to sell them and to be. room irrigated scoop of 4000 rice fields and supplies drinking water to 25000000 people. that's a mood for yes. only a possible that a. new type of digital currency essential digital scarcity chancellor bring a 2nd bailout for a bank that's called that got us a lot for
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a reason to calling it civil disobedience a source of optimism because i can control my own financial destiny it's just a new way of coming to consensus it's a game changer in the human history of this columbus discovering the new world this paradigm shifting technology that transforms economics and finance in a heartbeat the apollo 11 landing on to the max and stacey. drive you don't is holding products in times of political unrest american sanctions the queues for foods and medicines. this i've seen before.
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in november 970 socialist salvador became chile's president. the historic day for the. in america. for the white house it was a mistake by the american ambassador in santiago edward gorey. he was going to. let me just say oh you. know you know. but i only 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
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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 him that it would not be tolerated that in latin america an alternative. 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.
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it will be hinted at. in order to become a lasting. this or that but i mean will this in indiana has to see him to know it says the end will be on her neck and seeing him batted well planned on upset about. this with the center so no and don't want to. sit. up in the middle of. the.
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back of the. 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. a dictator is even when they held elections. in the 2 decades of the revolution. at least 25 elections were held and accredited by independent experts
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like the. over 92 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 2015 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
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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 opponent's. constitutional move absolutely. the opposition had twice considered using the same procedure to remove chavez from office in 2007. in 2016. before that. was the decision ethical. i may not be qualified to say. in my country as well as an entirely the banker was appointed prime minister. the referendum was ignored.
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in europe we cancelled a total of 5 referendums because the citizens hadn't voted as the e.u. wanted them to. was those decisions constitutional maybe they were but also ethical and democratic . in venezuela after the 2015 crisis the part of the right wing opposition started boycotting elections. they asked the un not to send experts who could determine whether fraud had been attempted.
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democracy in venezuela goes into turmoil this is the government solely responsible or is it also the ghost of the 2002 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. 2002. some of those politicians will continue to receive funding from american organizations like the ne d.
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. 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 point you had a bad mistake mechanism responded cruelly and indiscriminately dozens were killed on both sides and many ended up in prison. when independent un experts alfred desireless visited caracas. he persuaded the
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government to release 80 prisoners are. just not the 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 4 persons. politicians who are. in jail. now these 4. politicians are clearly political prisoners. whereas in venezuela many of the detainees were detained because acts of
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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 pouts. 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
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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 i heard a breaking story. but i'm not going to. come out of a lot. in she stayed buddy.
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as georgie sanchez was not allowed to speak to journalists i left the studio and went to meet his wife. i made a list though i knew i needed. to focus and i know i'm in the theatre grey and you're going from place of stability force bedo as he. has that impression importantly they are.
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list stylists. plucked. and a very warm welcome to you watching us in such. there is a cyclical nature to things there's to globalization there's globalization there's lowering interest rates there's rising interest rates so when the interest rates rise hit the impact it is said will be instantaneous death. lake says and she forms part of a high altitude nature reserve. it's one of the
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famous chat room indonesia's principal waterway starts its journey. but if you can be summed up to the top to bottom i've got to start the binocs up. it runs 300 kilometers from source to mouth and there are over $200.00 industrial facilities ranged along its bangs. i'm out on your muscle. diana to do 3 things. i have so much to both of them and to be in. the room here again scuba 4000 rice fields and supplies drinking water to 25000000 people. that can move on yes a pool or so made by so many of us about us and we have to offer our people.
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