however politicians in some of those countries have called the military intervention in venezuela to protect so they say its citizens. that 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 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 i saw it on the market as he's going to the wood in terms of taking decisions that even though this is a dictatorship that the venezuelan 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 theirs. 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 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 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 patella. a consultant on energy issues for the central bank of venezuela. we begin. the series. it gave us what we never see. or nah. you know again not a moment. and i. wanted to thank you. 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.

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and very well welcome to you watching on since last. and i mean on the flip side is the mcconnell way to go through a suit because the ballot itself mukti it on. closing this way got to dot so hard not to think of the mother disappeared this moment the work of a coward and i'm going to start then if. this is the only thing that we do is music because everybody fights in his room waiting. on. the floor you can feel the fee on this bill frist woody allen called the ability to put a hold on the. what i think is this is the fund that is a constant. even

without the all right now. 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 there's a 2nd bottle. kill nicholson. but i. think the c.d.c. . because it's called the dutch disease i thought i should go to whole and good judgment. sadly

we see that many obese 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 has been called the dutch disease. the dutch disease is something which is taught in the netherlands sneddon's was one of the main gas export you had all these gassy holding on the north part of holland around as a result of the gas being exported it was a lot of extra mom for the guilder 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 was became less competitive found a more difficult to export to bowl so although we were well through in terms of gas 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. sea economy so. during the past you had to but you are not you're not safety move on up close you're not going to know. these are friends who will. be always on i must go. down. well good luck if we see a bank we'll get but if the moon. didn't move your mom would out the capital good luck getting. people of course.

all of it bog us unions. as wouldn't kill the dutch disease. but for the 1st time an oil revenue wasn't going to the elite or to foreign multinationals. that. were. let's look 1st at the old times and shove estoril still alive then chavez put 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 was 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 by that are poor people you go dryads from co rest and then they got hit by the version that could have

happened when its way. from the usa. for this purpose we're going to announce sanctions against. the state. we're looking at the oil. big difference to the united states economic.

as well as the official exchange rate for the. black market right. from a facebook page. changed. by controlling. anyone citizens against government.

2 opposing sides have been trying to explain the crisis in venezuela. suffering is caused by american sanctions and internal economic sabotage. that theory is based on reality explain everything and is often used as an excuse. to. instead of.

socialism is to blame for. venezuela has affected a wants a prosperous nation. free for all. this is not a failed socialist state. venezuela this is the socialist dilemma was it socialism i don't think so because actually during the period when you know the vast majority of the creator were in the private sector. they didn't come

anywhere near. 55. years. even when chavez nationalized companies mainly in. 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. the 2 made narratives putting the blame on sanctions or on socialism the reality i saw in venezuela was much more complex. and maybe. very a 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.

all those problems old and new came to the surface. and the rich. when.

there was something more. christian. in the sixty's and seventy's. but that's not acceptable today. and anyone who must be crushed.

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. 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.

chose seemed wrong. but old old just told. the old to get to shape out just to come to the ticket and in game trade it was betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation full community. are you going the right way or are you being led somewhere. dialling. what is true what's his face.

in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. for a mate in the shallowness. i'm going to fulfill the repeated promises apologise to the people i promise to be you know it's all pots to. be. pretty. cut. pretty good. now you want to 1st crack that. no.

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in a major policy overhaul the u.s. declares that it no longer views israeli settlements in the occupied west bank as a legal. establishment of israeli civilian settlements in the west is not per se inconsistent with international law. ron accuses the us of hypocrisy for supporting mass protests by hiking fuel prices. and alleged russian interference is said to be unquantifiable and still classified u.k. intelligence reports as russian media outlets including r.t. get a mention.