within a decade my country was ruined. it lost a quarter of its manufacturing. a 1000000 people emigrated and public debt kept rising. in 2015 a government claiming to be a left wing promise to force it into. however its agreed measures that tie the country up until 2060 and started messing privatisation. voters on the lift became depressed because it had succeeded with what the right hadn't. the right was depressed because they knew they'd lost there is on difference. in this country of mass depression however there was one word that awakens the political fervor of the. venezuela.

that's. put us. off the supporting cast we see there but up able to see steve it is going up and up and would send them out of the movie see. nothing in the again not good not the. one a european country went through a crisis why were its politicians worried about toilet paper in latin america. i flew to caracas to find out.

during the 11 hour flight i read all sorts of articles warning me that caracas is one of the most dangerous cities in the world. if i wasn't murdered as soon as i got off the plane i'd be kidnapped or mugged or die of hunger or disease. will rot in prison. venezuela's capital is indeed amongst the most dangerous cities but so are dozens of cities in mexico brazil low colombia. however the people there do have fun like we do they exercise much like us.

children eat ice cream and some women carry refrigerators for some reason. surprisingly nobody tried to kill kidnap or imprison me when i arrived. during those 1st few hours i sold venezuela had fallen victim to the biggest propaganda plot of the 21st century. media not to be coming out because i wanted to see life in the barrios the slums of caracas gatecrash which winnings i could be and when i wanted to be to young people assists and workers see what they do for fun what they eat how they vote what newspapers they read their. favorite hobbies.

until we got hit by a taxi and we were left in the middle of the street. the police who we hadn't called arrived within minutes. the ambulance that we did call never appeared. so i went off to explore all venezuela's public health care system . and found a doctor right away and most of the public hospitals i visited were more than decent. and some clinics medical care was offered for free by cuban doctors who were considered some of the best in latin america. however most hospitals lacked one essential element. patients.

as the medicine was there's no point in going. spare parts for the x. ray machines were missing to. find those i had to go to a private hospital. and i stumbled on the 1st proof that socialism had failed in venezuela. as one of venezuela's most eminent economists she's never hidden her support for the bolivarian revolution of. a. person. maybe.

there is no humanitarian crisis in venezuela looming humanitarian crisis. humanitarian crisis. and crisis. crises the country's economic crisis has turned into a humanitarian one. everyone said venezuela was going through a humanitarian crisis. they went to geneva to meet former u.n. independent expert. he just returned from caracas. people also seems to have a problem with the humanitarian crisis. that is

a term of art. said. you used the term humanitarian crisis. a pretext to. humanitarian intervention. this was the argument made in libya when you wanted to have humanitarian intervention in libya. at the same time regime change and overthrow the american military. with food for everybody is that is correct but the humanitarian aid would have to be secured by guys with guns. there are certain items that are missing why because production. trade distribution is entirely in private hands it is not direct so if you have

a considerable portion of the. wealth. in this position. that does not want to cooperate with the government you are going to have a scar city and you're going to have delays and distribution that cetera et cetera so i'm. on. this side of it. according to the central bank of venezuela products were

missing before the constitutional referendum and regional elections of 2007. before the presidential election of 2012 and off to chavez's death that again led to elections. american sanctions will soon be added to this artificial scarcity making the situation even worse. brought director of the c.p.r. in washington followed. economic development he believes that america's sanctions are killing people in venezuela. when obama 1st imposed these sanctions on individuals because they violate so many international conventions he had to declare that venezuela poses an extraordinary and unusual threat to the security of the united states which is of course

ridiculous and so this is a very aggressive thing to trumpet taking a big step further and really did make it nearly impossible for the venezuelan economy recover temperamental that it will kill for that ca to know he needs them from being a woman to have some math if he's still a b. and he says sally might make a mean behind me but i limp at that still lived all the facets illness it really is sad that they claim that. it's under less from the 2nd wife and i said in that message that but in superman to call his album. they're not interested in knowing why there is a problem so just to be sure why there are certain medicines are not available they don't tell you for instance that. although venezuela has the money to buy

medicines and tries to buy these medicines often enough the countries either refuse to deal with venezuela or do not deliver. we had in the month of november the crisis. in the province. and. they couldn't get the malaria medicine from colombia they had to fly it in from india. so matter of fact. has been flying in from god knows how many countries to india and china etc in sort of a problem all scars that deal all of insulin but that is because of the boycott i think put the blame where the blame belongs and. how can we condemn the government of venezuela.

when we ourselves are causing this car city. good food description sound up a tasing even for the owners so how to choose just had food industry is telling us what to feed our pets really more based on what they want to sell us than was necessarily good for the pet turns out that food may not be associate this people believe we have animals that have you know diabetes in arthritis they have auto immune disorders the cat allergies we are actually creating these problems it's a huge epidemic of problems all of them i believe can be linked to very simple problem of diet and some dog owners so heartbreaking stories about their pets

streets to larger corporations are not very interested in proving or disproving the value of their food because they're already making it a $1000000000.00 on it and there's no reason to do that research. seems wrong why don't we all just don't all. get to shape out. just to come out to it and in the game because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. dr you don't as hoarding products in times of political unrest american sanctions

the queues for foods and medicines. this i've seen before. in november 970 socialist salvador and then they became chile's president. the historic day for latin america. for the white house it was a mistake by the american ambassador in santiago edward gorey. he was going to. maybe just say oh you mean. i'm

going to. die and he was elected i said that it was a grave and very serious defeat for the united states we knew that although i would act in what appeared to be a legal and constitutional manner it would be designed as a class warfare to eliminate the middle class opposition the bourgeois it would be a class war approach. top secret sensitive eyes only. nixon already in september called in henry kissinger could tell. that it would not be tolerated that in latin america an alternative economic and social system could take hold and therefore the

policy would be to make the chilean economy scream. nixon gives orders that they make the chilean economy scream and cia director richard helms writes it down. i will behave. in order to the dam will last through no more but a small but i'm able to maintain and have sense to put him to not see the end of the end in your neck in seeing him bad well planned on upset about. this with the center so no mass and incomplete. simple. looking at most of.

the. back of the. goings. goal. but i guess. in venezuela's case the media attacks will be based on a well used recipe. everyone has to be convinced to.

dictators even when they held elections. in the 2 decades of the revolution. at least 25 elections were held and accredited by independent experts like the carter center. over 92 elections men are monitored i would say that the election process in voters' where is the best in the world. where all the electoral process is legal and democratic. and 2015 party loses the parliamentary election and the right wing opposition wins in the national assembly. believe the country is paralyzed as

m.p.'s hinder legislative work and rejects supremes court rulings. responds with a football dribble will lose. its. instead of waiting for the hand of god as his friend would advise changes field in the middle of the game. of the holds a referendum on the formation of a constitutional assembly that would remove the powers of the national assembly controlled by his opponents find. a constitutional move absolutely. the opposition had twice considered using the same procedure to remove chavez from office in 2007. in 2016.

before the gun bill. was a decision ethical. i may not be qualified to say. in my country as well as an entirely the banker was appointed prime minister. and a referendum was ignored. in europe we cancelled a total of 5 referendums because the citizens hadn't voted as the e.u. wanted them to. was those decisions constitutional maybe they were but they also ethical and democratic. in venezuela after the 2015 crisis the part of the right wing opposition started boycotting elections. lost the un not to send experts who could determine whether fraud had been

attempted. democracy in venezuela goes into turmoil this is the government solely responsible or is it also the ghost of the 2002 coup. several coup instigators will never go to prison and will form the hard core of the right wing office. it's interesting that. many of the opposition politicians today in venezuela were involved in some way or another in the coup d'etat of april. 2002.

some of those politicians will continue to receive funding from american organizations like the any. of congress dole is to venezuela. when the political crisis hit the streets many politicians exploited public frustration and transformed caracas into a battlefield. thoughts of the opposition resorted to extreme violence. he had to get off point you had a back to state mechanism responded cruelly and indiscriminately

dozens were killed on both sides and many ended up in prison. when independent un expert alfred desireless visited caracas. he persuaded the government to release 80 prisoners are. just he insists though that some should be in prison and should be considered political prisoners. on the subject of political prisoners he said we should look at europe as well. they are 4 persons. politicians who are. now these 4. politicians are clearly

political prisoners. whereas in venezuela many of the detainees were detained because acts of violence. they were. detained because they were just expressing their. desire to be independent. to be sure that they're all political prisoners in spain i went to barcelona to visit a fellow journalist. public t.v. carlos pouts. he explained that

even if the political prisoners he couldn't say so. at least not on. the. and he called. who said what kinds of words we can use when we speak about people that are in prison. just said we cannot use. the terms political prisoners for example. because i honestly couldn't believe that in a european country a judge could decide what words a journalist could use. i stayed to watch the broadcast and i heard

a breaking story. but i'm not going to. come out of the lot out. there. yeah but he. has joined the sanchez was not allowed to speak to journalists but i left the studio and went to meet his wife. on a list that i knew on his way. to some casino in the theater. from christmas because . he. knows that impressed me to ask what he thinks.

i'm going to fulfill the repeated purposes probably to the people come on you know we've all pots to. be really really really. pretty good. now you want to 1st. know. for the. coming

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