10000 civilians between 20022010. that doesn't include hundreds of political activists assassinated every year or 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 the military intervention in venezuela to protect so they say its citizens. 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 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 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. 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. 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. they see. those 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. hours of 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 watch somebody who's been. following venezuela's energy policy professor carlos mendoza. a consultant on energy issues for the central bank of venezuela. we began. the series. it gave us what we never see even or nah. you know again not a moment they don't think. and i. go 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. he's. being. shown these. relief and i know you know. he's. in. there but. you have that.

i suppose what you. want to. give me saying. this. but up and if you do. good to know. him better tell me so you know. i'm going to fulfill the prophecies. of the people and i'm honored to be you know. it's all pots. you really you really.

feel. pretty good. now you want to 1st crack that. you know. cut. out my yaar.

even without the. 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 familial and they see a bottle. they think in c.d.c.

you can see. it. 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 up with 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 myself that's been called a dutch disease. the dutch disease is something which is taught in the sneddon's was one of the main gas export you had all these guys 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 dutch currency that pushed up the value

of the guild and the made in very strong currency but as a result of that the rest of the industry that it was became less competitive found a more difficult to export to bowl so although we were wealthy in terms of gas our industry was suffering and might have been causing on the point. venezuela has suffered from the dutch disease and the 930 s. when oil income was converted into holidays clothes and mentions for the elite. say economy so. you add to it but. know. these are friends who will. be always one of the most.

we see a bank will get but if the moon. is that people of course. all of it bogs. is wouldn't kill the dutch disease. but for the 1st time an oil revenue wasn't going to the elite or to foreign multinationals. let's look 1st at the old times and shove assholes to life then chavez sport a lot of the money over the oil the huge oil money eventually gets into helping the people of venezuela as he put it into the education system and put it into the health care system and if you can poverty. whatever bad things you can see about trevor's death most true what happened afterwards and his successes. is

a different story now we do have a story that when the old price was still high but more and more money went to the elites the poor people who are suffering the most and other poor people you go dryads from co rest and then they got hit by the version that could have happened when it's really not any oil rich country that the old price collapse. was along with the oil price collapse came a financial embargoed from the usa. all. over to stephen for this purpose we're going to announce sanctions against. venezuela. paid of a says it's known by its spanish acronym the state owned oil monopoly we're looking at the oil assets. of the government of venezuela it will make a big difference to the united states economically if we could have american oil

companies invest in oil capabilities. and i reached the source of the absurdity in venezuela as 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. from a facebook page. things have changed they can find it on instagram. opponent

of the regime in the usa well maybe. by controlling the exchange rate anyone could citizens against government. 2 opposing sides have been trying to explain the crisis in venezuela. the suffering is caused by american sanctions and internal economic sabotage. that

theory is based on reality. and is often used as an excuse. to. socialism is to blame. has affected a prosperous nation. free for all. this is not a. socialist venezuela this is the socialist dilemma.

socialism i don't think so because actually during the period when you know the vast majority were in the private sector. they didn't come anywhere near say france which has 55 percent of its g.d.p. is government. even when chavez nationalized companies mainly of the oil sector the private sector grew more rapidly than the public sector. venezuela was therefore never a socialist country. and even its greatest opponents knew it. when its economic growth rate was double that of the usa and poverty was down by 50

percent. international media attributed the growth to capitalism. but when the crisis struck socialism was blamed. see. the 2 made narrative as putting the blame on sanctions or on socialism the reality i saw in venezuela was much more complex. and maybe more dull. varian 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. the rich.

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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 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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arthritis they have auto immune disorders if allergies we are actually creating these problems is a huge of a democrat problems in all of them i believe can be linked to fairy simple problem of diet and some dog owners so heartbreaking stories about their pets less treats the 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. up and patted on the foot of the eyes away or go for the food. bank itself more to see if. it was in this way got to dog through hard luck the think of the of the decide this but the work that they call it and i don't miss thought that if. this is the only thing that we do is music because everybody fights his own

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a yacht. talk with col garble the so for much of the brit. iran accuses the us of hypocrisy for supporting mass protests sparked by a hike in fuel prices. so i said to the people of iran which the year and a half ago the united states is with i don't know why people would not feel. taken advantage of by outside economic pressure on nations. alleged russian interference is said to be unquantifiable and they still classified u.k. intelligence reports as russian media outlets including r.t. get a bunch of. and violence in hong kong enters a new phase with a vicious standoff at the university of hong kong protesters use homemade weapons including bows and arrows injuring police.