tv Documentary RT May 25, 2019 1:30am-2:01am EDT
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ever come back. a gun example when the cops get to be about 6 weeks old we take them to the separate things where there's no song. the. on your file i'll be back around 30 minutes time with updates so you stay with us. they were full you can listen to that have both of the halls of fortune it was most feet of emotional work for all the previous governments the means of the former president and c.e.o. board which to free the country people wanted much more they didn't want just the ideal is to travel freely with europe they want to for it to become part of the
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socialism has been faithfully implemented. within a decade my country was ruined. it lost a quarter of its manufacturing. a 1000000 people emigrated and public debt kept arising. in 2015 a government claiming to be a left wing promise to put an end to hostilities. however it agreed measures that tie the country up until 2060 and started mass privatisation of. voters on the lift became depressed because it had succeeded with what the right
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hadn't. the right was depressed because they knew they'd lost their is on death row . in this country of mass depression however there was one word that awakens the political fervor of the. venezuela. the supporting cast we see. steve it is lit up up in books and then the loss of the movie. on another human is well again not good no not though.
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when a european country went through a crisis why were its politicians worried about toilet paper in latin america. i flew to caracas to find out. during the 11 hour flight i read all sorts of articles warning me that caracas is one of the most dangerous cities in the world. if i wasn't murdered as soon as i got off the plane i'd be kidnapped or mugged or die of hunger or disease. will rot in prison. venezuela's capital is indeed amongst the most dangerous cities but so are dozens
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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 some reason. surprisingly nobody tried to kill kidnap or imprison me when i arrived. during those 1st few hours i sold venezuela and fallen victim to the biggest propaganda plot of the 21st century. and money can only be coming out. i wanted to see life in the barrios the slums of
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caracas gatecrash which winnings i would be and when i wanted to be to young people insisted workers see what they do for fun. what they eat how they vote what newspapers they read their favorite hobbies. until we got hit by a taxi and we were left in the middle of the street. the police who we hadn't called arrived within minutes. the ambulance that we did call 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
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were considered some of the best in latin america. however most hospitals lacked one essential element. patients. as to what our medicines there's no point in going. spare parts for the x. ray machines were missing to. find those i had to go to a private hospital. 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
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the bolivarian revolution of. tennis. maybe. there is no humanitarian crisis in venezuela looming humanitarian crisis. is the. crisis. in crisis. 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
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to be a u.n. independent expert. he just returned from caracas. people also seems to have a problem with the humanitarian crisis. that is a term of art. that that i mean most technique was. you used the term humanitarian crisis. a pretext to. 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 it correct but the humanitarian aid would have to
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be secured by guys with guns. there are certain items that are missing why because production. trade distribution is entirely in private hands it is not direct so if you have a considerable portion of the. wealth. in this position. 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 etc etc so i. do .
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see. the side of. me when. according to the central bank of venezuela products were missing before the constitutional referendum and regional elections of 2007. before the presidential election of 2012 and after his 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.
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when obama 1st imposed these sanctions on individuals because they violate this woman in 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 a big step further and really did make it nearly impossible for the venezuelan economy recover temperamental that it will kill you not ca to know he needs them from being a woman to have some math if you see a. b. and he says sally quinn with me coming to hide me but i limp. lived all the facets illness it really is sad that they claim. it to be less from my phone i said in that message that in super meant to conduct album.
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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 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. venezuela has been flying in from god knows how many countries to india and china
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etc there is a problem of course the deal insulin but that is because of the boycott i mean put the blame where the blame belongs. how can we condemn the government of venezuela. when we ourselves are causing this car city. there is a cyclical nature to things touristy globalization there's globalization there's lowering interest rates there's rising interest rates so when the interest rates rise hit the impact will be instantaneous death. historically took his opponents used to claim that there are 3 issues. to
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poor. and muslim the fact that we are too poor is no longer correct because our per capita purchase very is higher than some of the current do you member countries. drive you don't as hoarding 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 allende became chile's president. the historic day for latin america. for the white house it was a mistake by the american ambassador in santiago edward corey. he was. ready just say oh you mean. i'm going to. die and he 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 a class warfare to eliminate the middle class opposition the bourgeois it would be
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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 economic 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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they hinted at tagging. in order to be down last. month but istm. that at the moment this in indonesia has to put him to not see the end of the enemy nor neck in seeing him bad well planned on upset about. this if the sun is from nowhere and doesn't want any. sympathy. better looking in the eye to. the.
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back of. some things by any goal. but i guess i've. got to. go. in venezuela's case the media attacks will be based on a well used recipe. everyone has to be convinced the. 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 like the.
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over 92 elections that we 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. 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 of waiting for the hand of god as his friend would advise changes field in the middle of the game. he holds a referendum on the formation of
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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. 0 before the gun bill. was a decision ethical. i may not be qualified to say. in my country as well as in italy the banker was appointed prime minister. the referendum was ignored. in europe we cancelled a total of 5 referendums because the citizens haven't voted as the e.u.
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wanted them to. was those decisions constitutional maybe they were but they also ethical and democratic. in venezuela after the 2015 crisis the part of the right wing opposition started boycotting elections. last the un not to send experts who could determine whether fraud had been attempted. democracy in venezuela goes into turmoil this is the government solely responsible or is it also the ghost of the 2002 coup.
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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 any de. ends of congress dole is to venezuela.
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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 sad state 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 government to release 80 prisoners are. just flat he insists though that some should be in prison and should be considered political prisoners.
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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 violence. they were. detained because they were just expressing their. desire to be
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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 a. big. and he called. who said what kinds of words we can use when we speak about people that are in
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prison. just said 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 but.
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as joe di sun shows was not allowed to speak to journalists i left the studio and went to meet his wife. and if he had a k a a yes or no from princess. is that interesting. 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
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that you type into the search bar it will always. 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 seeing if they have this kind of power then democracy is an illusion the free and fair election doesn't exist the more growth we give them the sooner we are all.
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american mainstream media now warn of the dangerous precedent being set by washington's intensified pursuit of julian assange. u.s. president donald trump announces he's sending more troops to the middle east and. sales to the region in order to keep iran in check. and the netflix show 13 reasons why about a teen who killed herself fresh outrage with critics saying it should be pulled from the platform for romanticising suicide i guess way and. the problem is the kind of you know.
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