and now opposition needs that iran haun white has declared himself the country's new president have you also the president of the united states for any military support in your struggle you got by as a way down on the amount of us he's going to have is a game and that i wouldn't terms of taking decisions not even though this is a dictatorship the little people want to advance with whatever pressure is needed but 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. either who day. key. was when i received an interesting message.

i had just been given my next mission my dear twitter friends explains 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 ringback ringback ringback ringback that night i boarded a bus with dozens of venezuelans leaving the country. just a nation the border crossing out in colombia. the place where the local mafia random to members of colombia's civil war paramilitary groups meet operate only. for breakdowns one flat tire found 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. started. they see. those humanity. 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 in 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 production in my mind i decided to walk 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. with. the he's. been there as well he never seen it 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. keeping. your knees. and i know you know.

that. because it will. give. me. the link this. to his having willing to put on the. up and if you. will and quick you know. so you know.

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. to be an arms race. spearing dramatic development only closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. lake says and see if forms part of a high altitude nature reserve. it's one of the famous chat room indonesia's principal waterway starts its journey. to the gulf can be summed up to the top to bottom i got a septic tank us 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. but. you 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 come on clean yes or so made by so many of us about us remember all the other people. they were going to see that happen to us on fortune it was most feel with a moment stallworth for all the previous governments the. former president and c.e.o. of ford rich to 40 years the country people wanted much more they didn't want just

love the ideal is to travel freely with your of they want to through to become part of. this is very far way to go still. i mean you're right. 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 diced 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 for the more growth we give them the sooner we are all. even without the all right no 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. and familiar with the scene and. they can see it. because it's called the dutch disease and i saw it i should go to whole and good judgment. sadly

we see that many obese countries and much worse economic performance much worse in the cold. to you much more poverty than before the end or well for the gas wealth or the mineral wealth so that's been cold i'm dutch myself that's been called the dutch disease. the dutch disease is something which is taught in the middle of the sneddon schools one of the main gas exports he had all this gas he holding up 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 maiden very strong currency but as a result of that the rest of the industry the madness became less competitive found a more difficult to export aboard so although we were well through in terms of gas

our industry was suffering and my to be causing on appointment. venezuela has suffered from the dutch disease since the 19th thirty's when oil income was converted into holidays clothes and mentions for the elite. say economy so. you add that but you are not you're not safety more on uploads you must know. these are friends who will. be always when i'm at. home but if we see a bank we'll get but if the moon. did a good bit of good luck getting.

on with bog. is wouldn't kill the dutch disease. but for the 1st time a. oil revenue wasn't going to the elite well what's a foreign multinationals. to the life. of the money or the huge oil money even israel to helping the people of this with so he put it into the education system and put it into the health care system and the v.a. to. things he can see about. his successes. is a different story now we do have a story about the old price was too high but more money went to the needs of poor people the suffering of people who go dry and. rest and then they go to hit by the

bush administration at any old rich country. along with the oil price collapse came a financial in from the usa. podium over to stephen for this purpose we're going to announce sanctions against. venezuela. paid if they says it's known by its spanish acronym the state. 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 really invest in and produce the oil capabilities in. that i reached the source of the absurdity in 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. merchants find the prevailing black market exchange rate from a facebook page. things have changed they can find it on instagram. maybe an opponent of the regime in the usa or maybe. one thing was certain by controlling that exchange rate anyone could citizens

against their government. can make. a fake. song. let me take. 2 opposing sides have been trying to explain the crisis in venezuela. the government supporters the suffering is caused by american sanctions and internal economic sabotage. that theory is based on reality but can't explain everything and is often used as an excuse.

for more than. prosperous nation. free for all. this is not a. this is the socialist dilemma. because actually during the. you know the.

50. years. even when. companies. public. when its economic growth rate was. 50 percent. media attributed the growth to capitalism.

or the. crisis struck socialism was blamed. 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. i travelled far trying to understand why when my country and europe was sinking in a crisis some was concerned about toilet paper in venezuela. some just wanted venezuela's oil and needed the pretext of humanitarian

intervention. there was something more the. despite its mistakes and failures venezuela chris.

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. you saw i. 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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must pretend to let people. get rid of whites only problems will go. with and. the. people being tortured to death expression the elderly people in the. face why of course will find themselves affected by. means and greens it's all sweats and a lot of. what are you going to have for dinner today we don't have a need to be asking for a. civil war in south africa never to. profit from. any chong not be in the code of europe and to the.

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