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but us. after supporting the kids we see them up able to see if it is lit up on a plane would send them to the movie scene and it was good fun and those women as well again not go out of 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. during the 11 hour flight i read all the sorts of articles warning me that caracas is one of the most dangerous cities in the world.
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if i wasn't murdered as soon as i got off the plane i'd be kidnapped mugged or die of hunger or disease. in prison. 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 some reason. surprisingly nobody tried to kill kidnap or imprison me when i arrived.
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during those 1st few hours i thought venezuela had fallen victim to the biggest propaganda plot of the 21st century. and not only be coming out. i wanted to see life in the barrios the slums of caracas gatecrash rich weddings i would be annoyed i wanted to be to young people ursus and 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. after . the police who we hadn't called arrived within minutes. the
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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. in 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 the widow medicine 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. i stumbled on the 1st proof that
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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 i went to geneva to meet former u.n. independent expert. he just returned from caracas. people seem to have a problem with the humanitarian crisis. that is. art. said. you used the term humanitarian crisis. a pretext to.
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this was. in libya. and at the same time regime change and overthrow. 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 why because production. trade distribution is entirely in private hands it is not government 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 and distribution that cetera et cetera
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so i'm. looking. for. the money. up a saturday. morning. 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 off to chavez's death that again led to elections. american sanctions will soon be added to this artificial scarcity
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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 the 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 to trumpet taking 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 that
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don't mean a woman who has so much if you see a. b. and he says sally make a mean to hide me but i limp at the. lived all the facets you on the serious had their way they claimed. it ws from my feet as they don't mess with that but 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 to deal with venezuela or do not deliver. we had in the month of november the crisis. in the
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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 india and china 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 and. how can we condemn the government of venezuela. when we ourselves are causing this car city.
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as it were little you can to see that happen to fortune it was most feel with a moment stallworth for all the previous government. the former president and c.e.o. for rich to 40 years the country people wanted much more and they didn't want just to travel freely with europe they won't offer it to become part of. this is very far away to go still in europe or. in the lakes isn't she forms part of a high altitude nature reserve. it's one of the famous teetotal and indonesia's principle which away starts its journey.
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but can be summed up to the top of my got a septic tank suck. it runs 300 kilometers from source. from out there out of the 200 industrial facilities ranged along its banks. i'm out on your muscle. to do 3 things. i might get out of them and get the. room irrigated scooba 4000 rice fields and supplies drinking water to 25000000 people. that's a move for us. so many of us about us have our people 1. what is it calling the coin is magic internet the new type of digital currency decentralized digital scarcity chancellor i'm bringing
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a 2nd bailout for a bank that's called that got us a lot for 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 and this is columbus discovering a 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 as holding products in times of political unrest american sanctions the queues for.
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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 gorey. that he was he was going to. maybe 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
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a legal and constitutional manner it would be designed as 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
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richard helms writes it down. will behave. in order to become a lasting more than this or that but at the moment this in indiana has to put him to not see the end of the enemy nor neck in seeing him bad well planned on upset about. this with the center so no mass and incomplete. simple see is seen for the benefit of looking at. the.
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back of. some things by any goal. but i guess. what i mean by. a tornado. in venezuela's case the media attacks will be based on a well used recipe. everyone has to be convinced that. dictators even when they held elections. in the 2 decades of the revolution. at least 25 elections were held and accredited by
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independent experts like the carter center. over 92 elections men are monitored i would say that the election process in voters' where is the best in the world. but 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
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entirely the banker was appointed prime minister. the referendum was ignored. 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 get off the bat the state mechanism responded cruelly and indiscriminately dozens were killed on both sides and many ended up in prison. when independent u.n. expert alfred desireless visited caracas. he persuaded the government to release 80
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prisoners are just back he 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. carlist but outs from which. he explained that even if the political prisoners he couldn't say so. at least not on. the. and he
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called. who said what kinds of wars we can use when we speak about people that are in 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. also but i'm not going to. come out of
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a lot. in she states buddy. as georgie sanchez was not allowed to speak to journalists i left the studio and went to meet his wife. player. i made a list though i knew i needed. some sympathy and i know him and if he had a k. and you're going from place to split people's bad o.c. . it's that the ladies seem ok here is that impression unfortunately they are where you think i. played.
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lists lists lists. licked. playing. and very well might continue watching on since last. 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 know the mother daughter is buried in a cemetery it really messes with 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 pin this on than him and what happens in court the
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in a marked change of attitude us mainstream media now warn of the dangerous precedent being set for journalist i washington intensified pursuit of julian assange. president trump announces he's sending more troops to the middle east and feeding up arms sales to the region keep around in check. and the netflix show 13 reasons why about a teen kills herself sparks fresh outrage with critics saying it should be pulled from the platform for a man sizing suicide and our guests debate the issue. the problem is that they did kind of you know glamorized it they were kind of romanticized this idea behind it and you know we have to give the you responsibility on this put the onus on the.
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