tv Documentary RT May 26, 2019 3:30pm-4:01pm EDT
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within a decade my country was ruined. it lost a quarter of its manufacturing. a 1000000 people emigrated and public debt kept driving. in 2015 a government claiming to be a left wing promise to put an end to hostilities. however it's agreed measures that tie the country up until 2060 and started messing privatization. voters on the lift became depressed because it had succeeded with what the right hadn't. the right was depressed because they knew they'd lost their is on difference. in this country of mass depression however there was one word that awakens the political fervor of the. venezuela.
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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 of cities in mexico brazil low colombia. however the people there do have fun like we do they exercise much like us.
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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 had fallen victim to the biggest propaganda plot of the 21st century. and on the only thing keeping out will be that i wanted to see life in the barrios the slums of caracas gatecrash which winnings i should 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.
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until we got hit by a taxi and we were left in the middle of the street. the police who we haven'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 were considered some of the best in latin america. however most hospitals lacked one essential element. patients.
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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 the bolivarian revolution of chavez.
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maybe. there is no humanitarian crisis in venezuela looming humanitarian crisis. is the reason for humanitarian crisis. and 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 to meet former u.n. independent expert. he just returned from caracas. people also seems to have a problem with the humanitarian crisis. that is
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a term of art. said 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 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 directed so if you
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have a considerable portion of the. wealth the. business 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 that cetera et cetera so on. up the side of it. according to the central bank of venezuela products
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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 making the situation even worse. brought director of the sea washington follows. 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 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
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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 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 out of the book at all with all the things that see on the sirius had their way they claimed. it to be less and less calling in sick in my phone i said in that message that put in super meant to conduct 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
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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. has been flying in from god knows how many countries. there is a problem. insulin but that is because of the boycott i think put the blame where the blame belongs.
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we condemn the government of venezuela. when we ourselves are causing this car city. if you will not obey the voice of the lord your god will be careful to do all these months and. then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you. and then the people. must pretend to. get rid of whites only problems will go away. within the. presence of the. people being tortured to death the elderly people in the.
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white horse will find themselves. for. teens and preteens all sweats and. through the feeling they need to be asking for a. full fledged civil war in south africa. one good profit from one why are there any chung not be in the code of yoga and to google. 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
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a 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 see 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 all pain.
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private owners holding products in times of political unrest american sanctions the queues for foods and medicines. this i've seen before. 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.
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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 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.
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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. it will be hinted at. in order to damn well has to know more but it's. but at that moment dismantling the has to put him to know it's the end all be on her neck in seeing him bad well planned on upset about . this with the center so no mass and incomplete.
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media attacks will be based on a well used recipe. everyone has to be convinced that. a 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. over 92 elections that we men are monitored i would say that the election process in voters' where is the best in the world. but we're told the electoral process is legal and democratic. and 2015 party loses the parliamentary election and the right wing opposition wins
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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. of the holds a referendum on the formation of a constitutional assembly that would remove the powers of the national assembly controlled by his opponents. was it a constitutional move absolutely. the opposition had twice considered using the same procedure to remove chavez from office in 2007. in 2016.
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before that. 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 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
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asked the un not to send experts who could determine whether fraud had been attempted. democracy in venezuela goes into turmoil 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 office. it's interesting that. many of the opposition politicians today in venezuela were involved in some way or another in the coup d'etat
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of april. 2002. some of those politicians will continue to receive funding from american organizations like the ne d. . 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
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a. bad mistake 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 prisoners are. just not 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.
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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 independent. to be sure that they're all political prisoners in spain i went to barcelona to visit a fellow journalist. public
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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 heard a breaking story. also but i'm not going to. be all just if you come out of a lot. as jody sanchez was not allowed to speak to journalists i left the studio and went to meet his wife. maybe. you know in the theater paying a yes or no from princess. bedo as he.
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