tv Documentary RT November 19, 2019 4:30am-5:00am EST
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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 put an end. however it agreed measures that tie the country up until 2060 and started messing privatisation. motors 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 their is own difference. in this country of mass depression however there was one word that awakens the
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political fervor of the. venezuela. that's a. good. thing i love to see 40 kids we see. steve it is lit up on a parent would send them off of the movie see. the next few minutes well 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.
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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.
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children eat ice cream and some women carry refrigerators for some reason. surprisingly nobody trying to kill kidnap or imprison me when i arrived. during those 1st few hours i sold venezuela and fallen victim to the biggest propaganda plot of the 21st century. and on the only thing keeping out because i wanted to see life in the barrios the slums of caracas gatecrash which winnings i could be and what i wanted to be to young people assists and workers see what they do for fun what they eat how they
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vote what newspapers they read what their favorite hobby. 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 of 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. in 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.
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as to what our medicines 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.
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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. to prove it 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
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a term of art. that the technique was. 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. and at the same time regime change and overthrow the american military. with food for everybody is that it 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 government directed so if you
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have a considerable portion of the. business 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. the side of. 1000000. according to the central bank of venezuela products were
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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. all economic development he believes that america's sanctions are killing people in venezuela. when obama 1st imposed these sanctions on individuals because they violate the so many international conventions he had to declare that venezuela poses an
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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 him at seattle no he needs them to mean a woman who has some might if he still. be and he says sally quinn might make a mean to hide me but i limped out of the book at all with all the fuss at sea on the sydney sadly they claimed. it to be less from long in 2nd life and i said in that message that put in super meant to call her album. they're not interested in knowing why there is problems with distribution why there are certain medicines are not available they don't tell you for instance that
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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. venezuela has been flying in from god knows how many countries to india and china etc there is a problem of course the deal insulin but that is because of the boycott i mean put the blame where the blame belongs. how can
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good food descriptions sound up a tasing even for the owners so how to choose this cat food industry is telling us what to feed our pets really more based on what they want to sell us than what's necessarily good for the path churns out and cut food may not be as healthy as people believe we have animals that have you know diabetes in arthritis they have auto immune disorders that cat allergies we are actually creating these problems and it's a huge of a demagogue 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 last treats the larger corporations are not very interested in proving or disproving the value of their food because they're already making a $1000000000.00 on it and there's no reason to do that research.
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the historic day for latin america. for the white house it was a mistake by the american ambassador in santiago edward gorey. that he was he was going to. maybe just say oh you. know you know 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.
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nixon already in september called in henry kissinger to tell him that it would not be tolerated that in latin america an alternative. 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. it will be hinted at. in. order to become
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a goal. but i guess. what i mean. in venezuela's case the media attacks will be based on a well used recipe. everyone has to be convinced that. a dictator is 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. but where all the electoral process is
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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
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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. the 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.
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was those decisions constitutional maybe they were but also ethical and democratic . in venezuela after the 2015 crisis the part of the right wing opposition started boycotting elections. they asked the un not to send experts who could determine whether fraud had been attempted. democracy in venezuela goes into turmoil 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
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right wing opposition. 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 ne d. . ends of congress dole is to venezuela. when the political crisis hit the streets many politicians exploited public
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frustration and transformed caracas into a battlefield. thoughts of the opposition resorted to extreme violence. he had to get off well sad to state mechanism responded cruelly and indiscriminately dozens were killed on both sides and many ended up in prison. when independent un experts alfred desireless visited caracas. he persuaded the government to release 80 prisoners are. just flat 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.
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to be sure that the all political prisoners in spain i went to barcelona to visit a fellow journalist. public t.v. car let's put out its image. 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 say we cannot use. the terms political prisoners for
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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. also but i'm not going to die now. or just if you come out of the lot. in she states buddy. as jody sanchez was not allowed to speak to journalists i left the studio and went to meet his wife.
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i made a list of 21 years where fares. come to c.n.n. and in the theater in your film precious political bedo see. there is an impression unfortunately they are political. tough and the clintons are used to muck around sway or both to assume. that they could solve mukti about. closing this way got to dog so hard not to think of the mother disappeared this is the work life that i want and i don't mr latona if. this is the only thing that we do is music because everybody fights in his own
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announce his new sanctions on iran and rams home his support for the ongoing mass protests in the country. by accusing america of destroying its economy and inciting writes united states will terminate the sanctions waiver related to the nuclear facility you know i expect anything else from mr pompei are a disgrace for the defense a much more pressure regime and imposition of sanctions on iran. also. the us courses by declaring that it no longer views israeli settlements in the occupied west bank as illegal. international law the law of the jungle. and activists.
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