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 thank you.

and now opposition needs 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 and saw it on the market as he's going up as it would in terms of taking decisions that 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. 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. the whole 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. place where the local mafia random to members of colombia's civil war paramilitary groups meet operate get only. 4 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. they import i mean they see. you many the vase. on. you know i mean i swear. 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 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 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 have 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 patella. a consultant on energy issues for the central bank of them as well and.

we begin. the series. as. it gave us what we never see. or nah. you know again. you know. what i 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. being. nice. and i know you know.

that. this is what you. get in saying. this. will include you know. so you know.

join me everything on the shore. of the world of politics. i'm show business. i'll see you then. this is a story about what happens auster a stray bullet kills a young girl in the street. what happens to her family and daughters in florida know the mother daughter is buried in a cemetery in healing messes with your head what happens to the community the public was screaming for a scapegoat the police needed 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 b b b b. shot after shot as far as a side deal that we don't know chills justice for the. end of this trial

unfortunately you. will still not know what childress. you know world of big part of the 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 bath 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 we're watching closely watching the hawks. and then penn your insistence crosstime started to ask 10 years i think it's time to shake things up maybe change the branding maybe the

format and here's what i've been thinking about next season related episodes filmed on an island 10 experts fight it out for a trophy what do you think ok i'm. affordable options 25 text birds. and one red rose another suggestion political jeopardy no political cookout where we will literally wrote the elites. late night show it's a rare form that these days and it's cheap all you need is an old microphone in a printed banner. to leave me with i guess i can do this campbell after politics gone wild like music. ok crosstalk is not about hype it's about meaning 10 years of talk and still going strong. peter if you want to change something why don't we get rid of the bow tie no that

is too much. even with the already 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 . because it's called the dutch disease i thought i should go to whole and good judgement. thing.

we see that many of these countries and much worse economic performance much worse in the course. 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 myself that's been called the dutch disease. the dutch disease is something which is taught in the middle of this not in the schools one of the main gas exports you get all this gas he holding on 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 than it was became less competitive found a more difficult to export abort so although we were well through in terms of gas

our industry was suffering and my to 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 add that but who you are not you're not safety more. no. these are friends who all those people are going to be always one of them i thought. well good luck if we see a bank we'll get but if the moon. did a good bit of good luck in the.

world with bog. as wouldn't kill the dutch disease. but for the 1st time a. oil revenue wasn't going to the elite multinationals. to the life. of the money or the huge oil money vince really gets to helping the people of venezuela so he put it into the education system and put it into the health care system and the v.a. . thinks he can see through. 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 people who are suffering the most incredible people you go dryads you 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. 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 could 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. take. 2 opposing sides have been trying to explain the crisis in venezuela. for 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 the. if. socialism is to blame. for all. this is not a failed state. this is the socialist dilemma. because actually during the. you know the.

55. years. even when nationalized companies mainly of. the private sector group. the public. knew it. when its economic growth rate was doubled. by 50 percent. media attributed the gross to capitalism.

or the. crisis struck socialism was blamed. of the 2 may narratives putting the blame on sanctions or on socialism the reality i saw in venezuela was much more complex. and maybe. 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. us. 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 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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know when you. in the news i mean guys are that infants involved. a lot of you will see slowing your present parts about 2 kids each other both for the most schools. but as in the adults to me as if. these. people got cabinet 5 days doing it so. maybe a 1000 people who simply knew. she would include in it will. join me every flows on the alex song and she'll. when i'll be speaking to the world

of politics. i'm sure. i'll see you then. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. scaring dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful ready. to sit down and talk. was .

was. was. the iranian president will unveil his plans for pace in the gulf how can he when the u.s. and 6 for forces to the region canvassed americans about another possible intervention in the middle. we think iraq was bad iran would be $100000.00 times worse i just think we should be less involved in other world affairs and no desire for conflict with iraq. say they may again try to impeach president donald trump for alleged collusion with another. they seem less concerned he say she's a corruption against that 2020 hopeful joe biden. been very reluctant to go down the path of impeachment but that may be the only remedy by failing to act congress is complicit in trump's latest.