however what venezuela's critics didn't do was compare human rights issues to those in other countries on the american continent. civil and political rights have been violated in venezuela. but they're violated every day in colombia and they're violated every day in mexico and they're violated every day in brazil. what i call human rights. what i call. of integration. you show enormous in the nation with regard to one country. to keep. with regard to many other countries where the situation is many times worse. in brazil the police killed 14 people a day on average. the colombian army killed 10000 civilians between

20022010. that doesn't include hundreds of political activists assassinated every year by groups tolerated or even supported by the authorities. even in the usa the police killed almost a 1000 people in 2018. politicians in some of those countries have called for military intervention in venezuela to protect so they say its citizens. but we have troops all 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 cuba. and now opposition needs that 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 market as 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 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. easy whole 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.

ringback ringback that night i boarded a bus with dozens of venezuelans 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 me to operate only. for breakdowns one flat tire and an attack with stones flying past my head resulted in a 19 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 import i mean they see. those many of the vase. on.

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 40 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 and 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 $10.00 times more it is estimated that almost 40 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 the oil production in my mind i decided to watch 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. as. it gave us what we never see even or nah. and i. want to thank you all.

according to international media of venezuela. even though it's been proved to have the world's biggest oil reserves. is that really true. he's. being. nice. relief and i know you know. that.

this. is just. so you know. historically to. claim that there are 3 issues. if you still muslim the fact that we are too poor is no longer correct because our . purchase parity is higher than some of the current deal member countries.

facebook and google started with a great idea and great ideals unfortunately it was also a very dark so. they are constructing a profile of you and that profile is real it's detailed and it never goes away turns out that google is manipulating your opinions from the very 1st character that you type into the search bar it will always favor one dog food over another one comparative shopping service over another and one candidate over another they can suppress certain types of results deiced on what they think you should be seen if they have this kind of power then democracy is an illusion the free and fair election doesn't exist the more we give them the sooner we all hang.

out what politicians do so. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and you. want to. have to go i would be interested to see what the full 3 of them or can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters and that. this should all. even without the already 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. in famille and there's a 2nd bottle. they can see.

because it's cold the dutch disease i thought i should go to whole and. sadly we see that many obese countries and 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 must be called a dutch disease. the dutch disease is something which is taught in that snedden schools one of the main gas export to get old is gassy 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 made in very strong currency but as a result of that the rest of the industry that was became less competitive found a more difficult to export to bowl so although we were well through in terms of gas industry evil suffering and might be causing on the point. venezuela has suffered from the dutch disease since the 930 s. when oil income was converted into holidays clothes and mentions for the elite. see economy still going but. safety more. will. these are friends who.

will get but if the moon. is that people. wouldn't kill the dutch disease. but for the 1st time well revenue wasn't going to the elite well lots of foreign multi-nationals. let's look 1st at the old times and shove assholes to life then chavez put a lot of the money over the oil the huge oil money eventually 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 was true what happened off. his successes. is a different story now we do have a story about the old price was too high but more and more money went to the needs of the poor people who are suffering the most and by the poor people you go dryads you 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. the motor to stephen for this purpose we're going to announce sanctions against petroleum to venezuela associate the name 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 invest in and produce the oil capabilities in venezuela. and i reached the source of the absurdity and 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. 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 the exchange rate anyone could citizens against the government. saw. 2 opposing sides of trying to explain. the crisis in venezuela.

suffering is caused by. internal economic sabotage. used as an excuse. to blame. prosperous nation. for all.

this is not a. this is the socialist dilemma. i don't think so because actually during the period you know the. they didn't come anywhere near. 55. years. even when. companies mainly of. the private sector group. the public. the country. and even its greatest opponents knew it.

when its economic growth rate was double that of the usa and poverty was down by 50 percent. international media attributed the growth to capitalism. but when the crisis struck socialism was blamed on. 66. of the 2 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 20th century. the dutch disease the destroyed production high inflation and huge inequalities. but for the 1st 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.

there was something more. in the sixty's and seventy's.

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 is you the people of venezuela raise your voices in a call for freedom.

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eat. this footage is unique because there's a tribal land. i'm normally off limits to the public eric's allowed in because he's the personal doctor. people here know him simply as dr eric he's rich famous some always on the move sailing yachts and flying aircraft that just since. he's considered one of the best neurosurgeons in brazil. that's happening almost all. our souls are. going to visit you and nothing's going to do the population much remote is going to keep people on.

in the long change of attitude american mainstream media now warn of the dangerous precedent being set by journalists by washington's intensified pursuit of. this president donald trump announces he's sending more troops to the middle east and expediting arms sales to the region in order to keep everyone in check. and the un's educational body unesco warns that automated voice assistance like siri and alexa are promoting gender stereotypes.