tv Documentary RT May 26, 2019 7:30am-8:01am EDT
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now opposition they that iran honda 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 i saw it on on the amount of this is going to have is a game and it 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 this is no time for dialogue this is time for. any negotiations with nicolas maduro. no.
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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 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 one day.
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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. the place where the local mafia random to members of colombia's civil war paramilitary groups meet operate only.
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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.
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in the news i mostly saw people leaving the country here i could see a few returning to venezuela even within a day. started. those many of the. 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.
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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
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a consultant on energy issues for the central bank of venezuela. we begin. with. the areas he's. been the last one he never see even. you know again not a moment. but i thank you you. know. 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.
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elim facias. being. shown these. relief and i know you know. these. is ahead of. you on there but the only sorting out you know. where that. thing. is it will go. get a sale. or make. the link this. local the way they say the willing to put on that island. but up on through. you'll push will include to know. him better tell me so you know him bialys.
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historically. to claim there are 3 issues. 30 is too big and still muslim the fact that we are too poor is no longer correct because our. purchase very. most of the current deal member countries. if you will not obey the voice of the lord your god will be careful to do all these commandments and the statutes. then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you. and then the white people. must pretend to let people.
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get rid of whites only problems will go away. within the. presence of the physical the. people being tortured to death the elderly people in the. mania somebody. in the white horse will find themselves. in. means and greens it's all sweats and a lot of. what are you going to have for dinner today we don't have anything i'm asking for a. civil war in south africa. was there any chong not be in the code of europe and to prove it.
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they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. more so more want to. have to try to be cross with the wife of a 43 in the morning can't be good girl. interested always in the waters in the hottest. city. even with the all right ok reserves venezuela has a lot of oil. so how did it get into its current situation. many people told me
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that it suffers from a strange disease. and familial and there's a lot of. phil mickelson. but i. think we can see it with. a bit. because it's cold the dutch disease but i thought i should go to whole and. sadly we see that many of these 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 goswell or the mineral wealth so that's been cold i'm dutch must be called a dutch disease. the dutch
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disease is something which is taught in the netherlands sneddon's was one of the main gas export to get all these guys he holding up the north part of holland. as a result of the gas being exported and 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 in the netherlands became less competitive found a more difficult to export dubourg so although we were well through in terms of gas our industry was suffering and might have been 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. sea economy so. you add that but do you are not you are not safety more on uploads
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you. know. now these are friends who will. be always on i must go. down. well good luck if we see a bank will give but of the moon. good luck getting. people of course. with bog. as 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. let's look 1st at the old times and shove estoril still alive then chavez put
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a lot of the money over the oil the huge oil money eventually gets into helping the people of venezuela as he put it into the education system and put it into the health care system and if you can poverty. is a different story. and then they. control. the oil. from the usa. for this purpose we're going to announce sanctions against.
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prosperous nation. socialist utopia this is not a failed socialist state. socialist venezuela this is the socialist dilemma was it socialism i don't think so because actually during that period 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 government. more socialist. even when chavez nationalized companies mainly in the oil sector the private sector grew more rapidly than the public sector. venezuela
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was therefore never a socialist country. and even its greatest opponents knew it. when its economic growth rate was doubled out 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
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saw in venezuela was much more complex. and maybe both. 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 foreign oil companies . that were distributed to the people. constantly economic war. made mainly and. all those problems old and new came to the surface.
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and the rich who was still rich decided to take revenge. when. someone. just wanted venezuela's oil and needed the pretext of humanitarian intervention. there was something. despite its mistakes and failures. christian. population by the elite. didn't achieve more than conservative governments would have in the sixty's and seventy's. but that's not acceptable today.
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country. along 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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was screaming for a scapegoat the police need is 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 be the. shock shock as far off society we feel. we don't know still just from. the end of this trial unfortunately you too will still not know childress. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the hope the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to sit in the home field where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and a fresh perspective from time used to surprising us all or nothing if you think.
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i'm going to talk about football not be or else you can think i was going to do. by the way what is it that's like here. fellow climate we were at camp grounds of america i think it's called there's like a chain of these campgrounds and trailer parks across america so yeah these types of organizations would be rolled out into a bigger rural up so you have economies of scale you now have lots and lots of trailer parks all socialize reporting to one corporate behavior. wall street and they're extracting nickels and dimes and a lot of people are suffering. and .
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this footage is unique because the zoe tribal lands are normally off limits to the public eric's allowed in because he's this is personal don't. people here know him simply as dr eric he's rich famous some always on the move saving yachts and flying aircraft that. he's considered one of the best neurosurgeons in brazil. that's happening amazon. allergies so says. going to busy doing nothing is going to do the population because it's going to people on a zone. of
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evolution you can assume that happened to force you into was most feet with a militia overthrow all the previous governments the means of the former president and c.e.o. court which to 40 years the country people wanted much more and they didn't want just. travel freely with you or of they wanted for it to become part of. this is very far way to go still in ukraine. thank you do you. ever know.
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