some of those countries have colds the military intervention in venezuela to protect so they say it's 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 i saw it on the market as he's going to meet i wouldn't terms of taking decisions don't even though this is a dictatorship 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 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. that. easy whole 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 i mean they see. those humanity even the scene a study based. on. i mean i swear. 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 and 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 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.

a consultant on energy issues for the central bank of venezuela. we begin. the series. as. it gave us what we never see. or nah. you know again not a moment there ain't don't think. it breaks your way though but i thank you all. 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.

in facias. king heating fuel in these. relief and i know you know. is ahead of. you on that but they're all you know. you have that. thing. as well you know. getting stale. this. local the way. but up and if you. will and critical. so you know.

he still got to tie it into the to conclude. on. the recorder if you screwed up. and couldn't want to think about anything out of your mates in each room tell me how good it was all. the lead to my target to be i get told you could fall under your gun law for me to get the i think i feel when i'm in the good job until i'm with all that you can fire one next time you don't come fall.

so if you leave i do object now then and i will continue objecting to people and republicans serbska to everyone agrees to those in power and their position to you we must not become a nato member under any circumstances our reason is clear nater people because serbska not only it bombed us for years in depleted uranium munitions of whom that still is killing our children today routine and if we decided to become a nato member of the we would give it a moral right to believe that it did the right thing for the enjoyment and to sway

over who would betray the memory of those who died as a result of the bombing operation bush told that angel of mercy can you imagine that. this is a story about what happens auster a stray bullet kills a young girl in the streets. what happens to her family and daughters in florida know the mother daughter is buried in a cemetery it is healing this is with your head what happens to the community the public was screaming for a scapegoat the police needed a scapegoat so why not choose a 19 year old black kid with a criminal record who better to pen this on than him and what happens in court be. i am shocked shocked as far as we feel.

we don't know still just for. the end of this trial unfortunately you too will sill not know childress. even without the reserves of 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 familiar with. it. because it's called the dutch disease and i thought i should go to whole and.

sadly we see that many obese countries and much worse economic performance much worse in a call to you much more poverty than before the hand or well for the gas well or the mineral oil so. oh that's being called i'm dutch myself that's me call the dutch disease. the dutch disease is something which is taught in the netherlands sneddon's was one of the main gas exports he had all this gas he holding up the north part of holland. and as a result of the gas being exported there was a lot of extra mom for the guild or for the dutch currency that pushed up the value of the gilbert and the maiden very strong currency but as a result of that the rest of the industry that had this became less competitive found a more difficult to export aboard so although we were well through in terms of gas our industry was suffering and might 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. say economy so. you add that but you are not you are not safety more. these are friends who will. be always when i must go. down. we see a bank will get bought of the moon. good luck getting. on

with bog. 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 move. to the life. of the money or the oil the oil money even sure that gets to helping the people of the so he put it into the education system and put it into the health care system and if you. think you can see. his successes. is a different story now we do have a story the price was too high but more money went to the needs of. people you go dryads rest and then they go ahead by the bush administration to any

country. along with the oil price collapse came a financially from the usa. for this purpose we're going to announce sanctions against. venezuela. paid if they says it's known by its spanish acronym the state. we're looking at the oil assets that's the single most important income stream to the government of venezuela it will make a big difference to the united states economically if we could have american oil companies really invest in and produce the oil capabilities in. that i reached the source of the absurdity in venezuela's economy.

then when i tried to exchange the dollars i had with me. as well as the official exchange rate for the. power black market. merchants could find the prevailing black market exchange rate from a facebook page. things have changed they could find it on instagram. the administrator is. maybe an opponent of the regime in the usa some say. one thing was certain by controlling the exchange rate anyone could citizens against their government.

make. them enough they. saw. 2 opposing sides of being trying to explain the crisis in venezuela. the government supporters the 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. to.

instill. more. socialism is to blame for all evils. venezuela has affected a prosperous nation. venezuela. free for all socialist economic model social this is not a failed socialist state. this is the socialist dilemma. because actually during the period 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. more socialist. even when chavez nationalized companies mainly in the oil sector the private sector grew more rapidly than the public sector. and even its greatest opponents knew it. when its economic growth rate was doubled out of the usa and poverty was down by 50 percent. international media attributed the gross to capitalism.

of the people. but when the crisis struck socialism was blamed. of the 2 main 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.

then under constant economic war huge mistakes were made mainly in monetary policy . when oil prices collapsed all those problems old and new came to the surface. the ball was still poor and the rich who was still rich decided to take revenge. i travelled far trying to understand why when my country. crisis some was concerned about toilet paper in venezuela. some just wanted venezuela's oil and needed the pretext of humanitarian intervention.

there was something more. despite its mistakes and failures venezuela christian neo liberalism and the austerity imposed on the population by the elite. in the sixty's and seventy's. but that's not acceptable.

george w. bush the president of the united states government of iraq and the future of your country. along 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.

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oh. please. live. live claim. and very well welcome to you you're watching us inside. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to confront a shouldn't let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful

very critical time to sit down and talk. tough and planning another one of. the way to go through the food. bank itself mukti if i. was in this way got to dog try hard not to think i know how they describe this move the work they cower and open this door open if. this is the only thing that we do is music because everybody fights his way. to. the floor you can feel the feet on this bill frist wouldn't have called the ability to pick it up. but i think it

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