the more i tried to understand venezuela the more i could see the signs of all solitary an ism emerging on my continent as well. however what venezuela's critics didn't dare do was compare human rights issues to those in other countries on the american continent. civil and political rights have been violated in venezuela. but they're violated every day in colombia and they're violated every day in mexico and they're violated every day in brazil. what i call human rights. what i call selective integration.

you schol enormous in the nation with regard to one country. and you keep trying with regard to many other countries where the situation is many times worse. in brazil the police kill 14 people a day on average. the colombian army killed 10000 civilians between 20022010. that doesn't include hundreds of political activists assassinated every year by taleb illiterate 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 for military intervention in venezuela to protect so they say its citizens. we have dropped 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 honda 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 as a way down on the amount of us 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. 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 ringback ringback ringback ringback ringback ringback that night i boarded a bus with dozens of venezuelans leaving the country. just a nation the border crossing out in colombia. place where the local mafia random the members of colombia's civil war paramilitary groups meet operate only.

4 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. 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 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.

a consultant on energy issues for the central bank of venezuela. we begin. with. the evidence he's. been the last one you never see even. you know again not a moment. there. but i thank you all i know. 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.

elim facias. king. in these. relief and i know you know. also. in the. last year on their petroleum. you have that. i think. it's about what you. get in saying. this he called the way his even willing to put on that island. but up and if you do. so you know.

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description sound up even for the owners so to choose this head food industry is telling us what to feed our pets really more based on what they want to sell us and was necessarily good for the pet turns out may not be as healthy as people believe we have animals that have you know diabetes in our stride they have auto immune disorders 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 last treats a 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.

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 2nd bottle. phil mickelson. they think is c.d.c. . because it's called the dutch disease so i thought i should go to whole and good judgement. 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 for the mineral wealth so all that's being called on has been called a dutch disease. the dutch disease is something which is taught in the netherlands sneddon's was one of the main gas export to get all this gassy holding on the north part of holland. as a result of the gas being exported there was a lot of backs from the 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 . our 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. you had to but do you and that's you're not safety more on uploads you're not going to know. these friends who. people are going to be always on i must go. down. well good luck if we see a bank we'll get a bite of the moon. good luck getting. people of course. all of the blogosphere 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. more. or less through 1st of the old times and chavez forced to live 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 alleviating poverty. whatever bad things he can see about trevor's death was true what happen often was his successes. is a different story now we do have a story about the old price was still hard but more and more money went to that leads the poor people who are suffering the most and by the.

from the usa. for this purpose we're going to announce sanctions against. the state. big. oil companies.

as well as the official exchange rate for the. facebook page. changed. by controlling. anyone. citizens against big government.

so. this is. take. 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 but can't explain everything and is often used as an excuse. for.

socialism is to blame for. venezuela has affected a prosperous nation. socialist free 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 that period the you know the vast majority of. or. anywhere near say france which has 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. 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 the pretext of humanitarian intervention. there was something more.

christian. didn't achieve. 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. you saw. mike pass 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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