however politicians in some of those countries have colds the military intervention in venezuela to protect so they say it's 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 and saw it on the market as he's going to would in terms of taking decisions that even though this is a dictatorship where 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.

each 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. and 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. started. 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 40 kilometers east of san cristobal.

hundreds of. hours of gas stations. this was another artificial shortage caused by private. smugglers collaborating with local offices buying gas and other government subsidized commodities in colombia. taking advantage of that 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 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 for free. to understand what was going on i had to return to caracas where the gasoline flows generously. as i couldn't reconcile the oil production in my mind i decided to was 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 begin. the series. it gave us what we never see. or nah. you know again not a moment there ain't don't think. it breaks your way though but i thank you oh my god. 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.

in facias. being. fueling these sort of the follow up with relief and i know you know. also. is ahead of the game. last year on their petroleum sorting out you know. you have that. coming petroleum thing. i suppose when you. get a sale. dealing with this. local do anything he said even willing to put on the ballot. but up and if you.

will and put that on. me so you know. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next. different clubs. on one hand it is logical to sit in the home fields where everything is familiar on the other i want of a new challenge and the fresh perspective i'm used to surprising. or not so you think. i'm going to talk about football not the or else you can think i was going to go. by the way what is it that flying here.

in the lakes isn't she forms part of a high altitude nature reserve. it's one of the famous chat room indonesia's principal waterway starts its journey. but if you come down the sun down to the top to bottom i've got a septic tanks up. it runs 300 kilometers from source to mouth and there are over $200.00 industrial facilities ranged along as bangs. i'm out on your muscle. to do 3 things. i might get out of them and get a good. room here again scuba 4000 rice fields and supplies drinking water to 25000000 people. that's

a multiple yes i've made by so many of us about us to have a perfect. you know world a big part of the lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to get the stories that made stream media refuses to pay. well more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the path and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for washington post for watching the hawks. even without the all right ok was a 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 lot of. kill who. they think can see. through it a bit. because it's called the dutch disease and i thought i should go to whole and good judgement. sadly reseated many obese countries and up with 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 myself has been called the dutch disease. the dutch

disease is something which is taught in that sneddon's was one of the main gas export you had all this gas he 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 in very strong currency but as a result of that the rest of the industry that it was became less competitive found a more do. trickled to export aboard so although we were well through in terms of gas industry evil suffering and might have been causing on the point that. 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 up if you add that but you are not safety moron uploads

you're not going to know. enough of these weapons who will. be always one of them i thought. well good luck at b.c. i think we'll get a bite of the moon. did i move your mom or not the good bit of good luck getting. the ball in the blogosphere unions. is wouldn't kill the dutch disease. but for the 1st time an oil revenue wasn't going to the elite or to foreign multinationals. that. were. so let's look 1st at the old times and shove assholes to life then chavez

support a lot of the money over the oil the huge oil money eventually gets into helping the people of venezuela so he put it into the education system and put it into the health care system alleviating poverty. whatever bad things he can see about travis' death was true what happened afterwards his successes. is a different story now we do have a story about the old price was too high. and then they go. along with the oil. from the usa. for this purpose we're going to announce sanctions against.

the state. we're looking at the oil. big difference to the united states. as well as the official exchange rate for the. black market right. from a facebook page. changed they can find it on instagram. opponents

of the regime in the usa. one thing was certain by controlling exchange rate anyone could citizens against the government. saw.

2 opposing sides have been trying to explain the crisis in venezuela. suffering is caused by american sanctions and internal economic sabotage. explained everything. used as an excuse.

socialism is to blame for. has affected a prosperous nation. free for all. this is not a failed socialist state. this is the socialist dilemma. i don't think so because actually during the. you know the vast majority were in the private sector. and they didn't come anywhere near say france which has 55 percent of its g.d.p. is. more socialist. even when chavez nationalized companies mainly in 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 50 percent. international media attributed the growth to capitalism. but when the crisis struck socialism was blamed. the 2 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 20th century. the dutch disease the destroyed production high inflation and huge inequalities. but for the 1st time. did not flow into the hands of the few and foreign oil companies. that were distributed to the people. mainly and. all those problems old and new came to the surface. and the rich. decided to take revenge.

when. someone. needed the pretext of humanitarian intervention. there was something more. christian. population. in the sixty's and seventy's. but that's not acceptable today.

and anyone who 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. the soft side. i might perhaps the vice president of the united states. 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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and very well continue watching us and. this is a story about what happens auster a stray bullet kills a young girl in the streets. what happens to her family and daughters in florida you know the mother daughter is buried in a cemetery meaning this is your head what happens to the community the public was screaming for a scapegoat the police needed a scapegoat so why not choose a 19 year old black kid with a criminal record who better to pen this than him and what happens in court. i am shocked shocked as far society we feel that we don't know chills just for the. end of this trial unfortunately you.

will still not know what childress. facebook and google started with a great idea and great ideals unfortunately it was also a very dark side. 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 growth we give them the sooner we are all.

in a marked change of attitude american mainstream media now warn of the dangerous precedent being set for journalists washington's intensified pursuit of julian assange. also this hour u.s. president donald trump announces he's sending more troops to the middle east and extraditing arms sales to the region in order to keep iran in check. the netflix show 13 reasons why about a teen who kills herself sparks fresh outrage with critics saying it should be pulled from the platform for romanticising suicide our guests. the problem is that the kind of you know glamorized they were kind of romanticized this idea behind if you will we have to give to you.