however politicians in some of those countries have called the military intervention in venezuela to protect so they say its 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 i saw it on the market as he's going to win it i wouldn't terms of taking decisions that even though this is a dictatorship the venezuelan 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 theirs. 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.

that. easy home 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 meet up regularly. 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. 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.

this was another official 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 feel 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 walk somebody who's been. following venezuela's energy policy professor carlos mendoza.

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. you. know. according to international media of venezuela. even though it's been proved to have the world's biggest oil reserves. is that really true.

being. in these. relief and i know you know. where that. is it will go. this. will include you know.

historically try. to claim. there are 3 issues. too poor to bake. them the fact is we're too poor is no longer correct because our. purchase parity is hajo mostly couldn't do you member country. 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 be one dog food over another one comparative shopping service over another and one candidate over another they can suppress certain types of results 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 rope we give them the sooner we're all. what is it calling. magic and the new type of digital currency. digital scarcity chancellor. of 2nd for bank that's called it get us a lot for

a reason a 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 of this. discovering the new world this paradigm shifting technology that transforms economics and finance in a heartbeat the apollo 11 landing. to the max and stacey. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy foundation let it be an arms race is on all fronts very 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.

even without the all right ok 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 familial and there's a scene. they can see you can see. because it's called the dutch disease and i thought i should go to whole and good judgment. sadly we see that 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 or the mineral wealth so that's been cold i'm dutch my soap has been called the dutch disease. the dutch disease is something which started in the middle of sneddon's was one of the main gas export you had all this gas he holding up the north part. paula. 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 in the netherlands became less competitive found a more difficult to export dubourg so although we were well through in terms of gas industry the suffering it might be 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.

say economy so. you had to but do you and that's you know i'm 60 more on uploads you're not going to know. these are friends who know. people like this when i must go. home but i could we see a bank we'll get a bite of the moon. good luck getting. the ball in with bog. chavez wouldn't kill the dutch disease. but for the 1st time an oil revenue wasn't going

to the elite or to foreign multinationals. let's look 1st at the old times and shove estoril still alive then chavez put 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. his successes. is a different story now we do have. more. rest and then they go. contrary. 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 economically if we could have american oil companies. 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. from a facebook page. things have changed they could find it on instagram. maybe . by controlling. anyone citizens against the government.

2 opposing sides have been trying to explain the crisis in venezuela. economic.

social is a. prosperous nation. hell of course isn't it socialist free for all socialist economic model social this is not a failed socialist state. socialist venezuela this is the socialist dilemma. i don't think so because actually during the period you know the vast majority were in the private sector. 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 both. 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 though. despite its mistakes and failures venezuela christian neo liberalism and the

austerity imposed on the 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. and anyone who deviates 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. salaam aleikum. what we can do and will do to support the aspirations of the libyan people came 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. so. there you will you going to see that happen to you it was more to feel.

to be a former president and c.e.o. of course which to free you the country people want that much more didn't want just . travel freely with europe they walked us through to become part of. this is very far away to go still in ukraine. you will not obey the voice of the lord your god will be careful to do all these commandments and the statutes. in all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you. and then the white people the stolen property and therefore it must be returned to black people. they get rid of whites only problems will go away. with and the. president of the fleet. wide for.

people being tortured to death expression the elderly people in the. mania somebody. in the face white horse will find themselves. in. point that will give them a means and greens it's all sweat and a lot of. what are you going to have for dinner to day we don't have anything i'm asking for a nice meat bad feelings or civil war in south africa easy never to. profit . was there any chong not be in the tone of your hand to get.

you know world big partisan movies a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back 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 watching closely watching the hawks. who are going on as. there is that is. the.

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