the more i tried to understand venezuela the more i could see the signs of all solitary unism emerging on my continent as well. however what venezuela's critics didn't dare do was compare human rights issues to those in other countries on the american continent. civil and political rights have been violated in venezuela. but they are violated every day in colombia and they're violated every day in mexico and they are violated every day in brazil. what i call human rights. what i call selective integration.

you schol enormous in the nation with regard to one country. and you keep quiet with regard to many other countries where the situation is many times worse. in brazil the police kill 14 people a day on average. the colombian army killed 10000 civilians between 20022010. that doesn't include hundreds of political activists assassinated every year by taleb illiterate groups tolerated or even supported by the authorities. even in the usa the police killed almost a 1000 people in 2018. the

politicians in some of those countries have called for military intervention in venezuela to protect so they say its citizens. that we have dropped over the world the place has 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 and saw it on the market as he's going to have 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 them as. 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.

each 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 only.

for breakdowns one flat tire and an attack with stones flying past my head resulted in a 19 hour journey. and 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. humanity even. 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 vehicles queued for gas stations.

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 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. you know again not a moment they don't think. and it breaks your way. but 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.

elim facias. king heating fuel in these. relief and i know you know. in the. last year on their petroleum sorting out you know. you have that. thing. i suppose when you. get a sale. dealing with this. local the way to his even willing to put it on the ballot. but up and if you. will include the old. so you know.

the democrats want to recapture the white house in a bad way their hatred of trump with the help of the liberal mainstream media as witness presidential candidates say some of the most extraordinary things but there is nothing extraordinary about their hatred of the president the question is do they have ideas to win. but if she warn you and i do the dishes at the bottom or those jeans near the

speech and you see me. true she. does and. when you guys e.t.s. . in the news i mean that so that in fact involved. a lot of you will see sawing during fuzzy fights about 2 kids each other both. of these. cabinet photo days going to. be a thing people who simply. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be

president and she. wanted. to go to the press this is what before 3 in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters in the house. there should be. oh. there's.

even without the 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 . think it's. because it's cold the dutch disease so i thought i should go to hell 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 they had all. well for the gas well or the mineral wealth so that's been cold i'm dutch myself but it's been called the dutch disease. the dutch disease is something which is taught in the netherlands sneddon's was one of the main gas exports he had all this gas he holding up 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 giver and the maiden very strong currency but as a result of that the rest of the industry the madness became less competitive found a more difficult to export aboard 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 you are not you're not safety more. these are friends who will. be always when i might go. down. we see a bank will get a bite of the moon. did a good bit of good luck getting. on

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 fall. multi-nationals. to the life. of a month ago or the huge oil money even sure that gets to helping the people of venezuela so he put it into the education system and put it into the health care system and if you. think you can see. his successes. is a different story now we do have a story of the price was too high but more money went to the needs of poor people

the suffering of people you go dryads arrest and then they go ahead by the bush administration to any country. along with the oil price collapse came a financially from the usa. even 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. the dollar. black market right. for years merchants could find the prevailing black market exchange rate from a facebook page. things have changed they can find it on instagram. may be an opponent of the regime in the usa some say well maybe.

one thing was certain by controlling the exchange rate anyone could citizens against their government. saw. 2 opposing sides have been trying to explain the crisis in venezuela. the 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. socialism is to blame for. prosperous nation. venezuela. for all. this is not a failed socialist state. this is the socialist dilemma. because actually during the period you know the.

safe. 50. p. is. more socialist. even when nationalized companies mainly of the oil the private sector grew more rapidly than the public sector. when its economic growth rate was double of the usa. by 50 percent. media attributed the gross to capitalism.

of the. crisis struck socialism was blamed. of the 2 may narrow it it was putting the blame on sanctions or on socialism the reality i saw in venezuela was much more complex. than 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 fall 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. despite its mistakes and failures venezuela christian neo liberalism and the austerity imposed on the face.

george w. bush the president of the united states government of iraq and the future of your country. belong 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.

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