it's like saudi arabia so it makes it hard to understand what an oppressive regime is what did you find in your research for the book is is the real reason and what are the the main core reasons that the u.s. and other nations want to get their feet into venezuela. yes well not just from my research but i've been to venezuela a number of times i've been an election observer there about half a dozen times including for both presidential elections for nicolas maduro and 1st of all you know there is some i think a lot of misinformation about venezuela 1st of all as jimmy carter himself concluded after witnessing 92 different elections around the world he said venezuela has the best electoral system on the planet. and i've witnessed that myself so far from having a democracy deficit in fact there's a lot the u.s. could learn from venezuela meanwhile by the way jimmy carter said the u.s.

has one of the worst electoral systems and he said that the u.s. right now doesn't even have a functioning democracy so for us to be trying to you know scold venezuela about democracy is ironic and by the way i do want to mention you mentioned saudi arabia we don't even have to go that far away to look at the worst human rights violator in this hemisphere and that's colombia south america which is the u.s. is closest ally in the past year over 150 social leaders had been murdered mostly by state forces in colombia south america and yet you never hear about that in the mainstream press if that sort of thing was happening in venezuela of course you'd hear about it because you hear about venezuela every day but in any case meanwhile i also want to note the u.n. just. commended venezuela as having being one of the few countries in the world

that is guaranteeing the right to housing venezuela has built 2500000 housing units in recent years. which again is commendable specially given the sanctions that are being imposed on them as well. that's interesting and one of the things you notice when you start to really dig into this is that madeira and chavez before him they connected with and prioritize the poor over the oligarchs you know you had people like the rockefeller is down in venice way about buying up hundreds and thousands of acres trying to build branches all of this you know hoping to profit from the situation down there is the current good wydow led opposition just another shade of the rockefeller's and the the oligarchies that looks like go down and profit. well the answer of course is yes and you as you point out for about 100

years the u.s. has dominated venezuela for its own purposes and for the purpose of oil of profiting from oil of getting access to oil of controlling the oil and that's what this struggle is about in fact one of the things quiet ows promised he said if he becomes president which by the way i don't think he ever will but he has promised he would privatized of venezuela's oil which was nationalized but as he would open it up to private investment including from the u.s. and john bolton you know trans national security advisor has already been meeting with the u.s. companies to divvy up venezuela's oil interests between them so there's that they're barely even concealing their true concerns here and by the way in terms of humanitarian concerns that they talk about. according to none other than jeffrey

sachs a very well respected economist at columbia university since august of 2017 since the sanctions imposed by trumpet that over 40000 venezuelans have died due to those sanctions because they have been able to purchase things like insulin chemotherapy drugs hiv drugs food. and sacks predicts that this year over $40000.00 venezuelans more will die and so 1. it's a cruel joke that the u.s. claims it cares about the venezuelan people and the latest sanctions trump has announced is to sanctions venezuela's few food distribution program called the clap program which guarantees a certain level of food for people in venezuela per month and now every 15 days in fact so now trump wants to sanction food distribution in in venezuela so

again the pretext of being concerned about the humanitarian situation in venezuela . is a joke but it's not a funny 1. 1 of the things i noticed also this week was that michelle a. former president of chile and the u.n. high commissioner for human rights she went to venezuela and i have this to say. if the looting going to europe the fate of more than $30000000.00 venezuelans lies in the will inability of their leaders to place the human rights or liberty people about any personal political or ideological ambition i understand skepticism of some about the possibility that any of these negotiations will be possible but i believe given the situation that exists in the country and it should urge all leaders to maintain an entrenched positions on either side will only make the crisis worse in a swale and cannot ignore the situation the country deteriorating everything.

what is it 80 do you think do we have leaders that can get to the table can we have a peaceful end to these sanctions and for the people of venezuela. you know i think the answer is yes in fact the opposition in madeira of met had different rounds of negotiations in fact almost have a deal. hammered out last year and santo domingo right before the may 2018 elections which the opposition was about to sign but then was urged by the trumpet ministration not to and so i think if the venezuelans are left to their own devices they can't work these things out by the way it's important to note that the opposition leader who ran against him. last year a guy named henry fell column from the business community has himself echoed the concerns that bachelor busy. you just quoted as saying and that is that the

sanctions are not only hurting the venezuelan people but it's increasing the tensions in their country and making it more difficult for the government in opposition to. common ground in so i think the u.s. has to stop intervening in venezuela has to stop the sanctions and let the venezuelan work people work these things out on their own i've a minute left do you think that if in the event that venezuela falls to sort of western intervention alyssum as this happened in places like russia and eastern europe. do you think you could have a change what change will look like a latin america. yeah well i believe if the u. if n. is way low falls to another u.s. supported to as many countries have throughout the world but particularly in the america i think history has shown that it will not be good for the venezuelan people the u.s. wants to turn venezuela back into the republic you know you hear the term banana

republic for years venezuela was the u.s. is oil republic that's what it wants to do it wants to put the power back in the hands of the rich oligarchs by the way mostly white oligarchs and take away the power that's been given under the boat of oriental revolution to indigenous people afro venezuelans poor the poor and working class people and i am certain that a u.s. backed coup will set venezuela back many decades and really be damaging to all. thank you so much dan koval eric new book the plot to overthrow the venice whale go out and get yourself a copy thank you so much for helping us wade through this dan thank you tabitha thank you very much. the u.s. supreme court was them better of a pickle when trying to decide whether trademarks can be issued if the name of

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