the more i tried to understand venezuela the more i could see the signs of all solitary and as 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 are violated every day in mexico and they are violated every day in brazil. what i call human rights. what i call selective integration. you shoulder enormous in the nation with regard to one country. to 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 power bill a tree groups tolerated or even supported by the authorities. even in the usa the police killed almost a 1000 people in 2018. politicians in some of those countries have called for military intervention in venezuela to protect so they say its citizens. 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 as a way down on the amount of us he's going to and i 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. 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. 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 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 me to operate only. for breakdowns one flat tire and 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. the import.

to many of the. 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 hours at 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 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. a consultant on energy issues for the central bank of venezuela. the obvious he's done. been the last one he never seen it.

be not gay and not a moment there ain't don't think. it breaks your way though but i thank you all. according to international media of venezuela failed even though it's been proved to have the world's biggest oil reserves. is that really true. in facias. king. showing these. only for i know you know. these. kids have had

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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 smart we need to stop slamming the door on the path 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. through our media to play just one game so sudden this by the cubs and the crazy mother gig and they don't know what to do with it you know they're the best hope is to temporize and i'm to continue until the next american election if trump is all wood to this side over at least because the democrats saw it it disposed towards the islamic republic so you know maybe you can go back to the old james over it

quietly given your consistent as i quietly you believe being pressured i'm not. 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. they think you see the.

because it's called the dutch disease and i thought i should go to whole and. sadly we see that many of these countries and 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 must be called a dutch disease. the dutch disease is something which is taught in that snedden schools one of the main gas exports he had all this gas he holding up the north part of holland around as a result of the gas being exported it was a lot of extra mom for the guild or for the currency that pushed up the value of the guild and the made a very strong currency but as a result of that there rest of the industry that it was became less competitive

found a more difficult to export to bowl so although we were well through in terms of gas our industry will suffer am i 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. sea economy so. but. these orphans who. could. we see it i think we'll get but if the moon.

is it. wouldn't kill the dutch disease. but for the 1st time well revenue wasn't going to the elite well lots of foreign multi-nationals. let's look 1st at the old times and shove estoril still alive then chavez spoke a lot of the money over the oil 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 can poverty. whatever bad things he can see a bunch of his death most true ones have a mouth for. 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 the poor people who are suffering the most by the poor people you go dryads rest and then they go to hit by the bush administration to any old rich country that the old price collapse. along with the oil price collapse came a financial in from the usa. protium over to stephen for this purpose we're going to announce sanctions against petroleum to venezuela associate the name paid if they says it's known by its spanish acronym the state owned oil monopoly 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. american oil companies invest in and produce the oil capabilities in venezuela.

and 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 find the prevailing black market exchange rate from a facebook page. now things have changed they can find it on instagram. the administrator is. going to look. maybe an opponent of the regime in the usa some say well maybe.

one thing was certain by controlling that exchange rate anyone could citizens against their government. can make. a fake. saw. 2 opposing sides have been trying to explain the crisis in venezuela. the government supporters the suffering is caused by a mess. internal economics. used

as an excuse. to. prosperous nation. this is not a failed state. this is the socialist. because

actually during the period you know the. 55. years. even when. companies mainly of. the private sector group. and. economic growth. it was doubled out of the usa and poverty was down by 50 percent. international media attributed the gross to capitalism.

but when the crisis struck socialism was blamed. 66. of 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 dull. 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 one.

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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. 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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