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 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 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 wouldn't 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. easy one 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 import. those humanity even the scene a study based. on. 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. almost.

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 patella. 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. and i. want to thank you.

according to international media of venezuela. even though it's been proved to have the world's biggest oil reserves. is that really true. these. relief and i know you know. that. getting saying. oh. this.

will include you know. so you know. the world is driven by. the person out there.

no dares thinks. we dare to ask. good food descriptions sound up or tell using even for the owners so how to choose just pet 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 patent turns out pet food may not be associate people believe we have animals that have you know diabetes in arthritis they have auto immune disorders allergies we are actually creating these problems is a huge of a democrat 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 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. is your media a reflection of reality. i am in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. high salacious community. are you going the right way or are you being led. directly. what is true what is faith. in a world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or a made in the shallowness. join

me every thursday on the alex salmond schill and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see that. even without the all right ok was a 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 scene involved. phil mickelson curious what. they think you see people say. 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 goswell or the mineral wealth so that's been cold i'm dutch my so called the dutch disease. the dutch disease is something which is taught in that sneddon's was one of the main gas export you had all these gassy holding on 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 guild and the maiden 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

our industry was suffering in my to be called. 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. you add that but you are not you are not safety more on uploads you're not going to know. these are friends who will. be always one of them i thought. well good luck if we see a bank we'll get a bite of the moon. out there good luck getting.

people of course. all of the blogosphere indians. 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 so 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 say about trevor's death was true what happened afterwards his successes. is a different story now we do have a story about the old price was still high but more and more money went to that leads the poor people who are suffering the most and other poor people you go

dryads you go. from the usa. for this purpose we're going to announce sanctions against. the state. we're looking at the oil. big. oil companies.

as well as the official exchange rate for the. facebook page. changed. by controlling. anyone.

so. this is. 2 opposing sides of 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.

instead of. socialism is to blame. how so sial ism in venezuela has affected a once prosperous nation. venezuela hell. for all. this is not a failed socialist state. socialist 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.

55. years. 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. 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 foreign oil companies. distributed to the people. mainly and. all those problems old and new came to the surface. and the rich who was still rich decided to take revenge. when. someone. needed. 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 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.

there was an imaginary goes an enemy out there called russia during the russia gate hoax meanwhile huawei and other 5 g. technologies coming out of china and other technology of china time is actually leapfrogging ahead of the us economically and now b. is basically the currency war so now that whole period of focusing on russia it would be is just a waste of time we should be focusing on the actual rival to the americas very dominant in the us now is the time to. make itself move to see if. we've got to do all. the things in the how to describe this. and i know just how much and i think. this is

the only thing we do is music because everybody fights his way. through i can be. given a look at. what i think is this is the fund that the whole company. i'm going to fulfill the repeated promises apologise to the people i promise to be you know we've all but the going to. be. pretty.

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