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good evening. it was once an oil-rich tropical paradise, but now venezuela is descending into ever deeper chaos. the white house today condemned that country's quote, unquote dictatorship after it began rounding up and jailing political opponents. abc's matt gutman has this extraordinary look at the crisis. >> reporter: for 124 consecutive days, protests have rocked the streets of caracas, venezuela, growing increasingly violent, rubber bullets, batons and guns clamping down. the death toll now 120. thousands injured, thousands more arrested. they've been protesting president nicolas maduro's power grab. the white house called president

maduro a dictator. >> he's not just a bad leader. he's now a dictator. >> reporter: that after maduro rounded up his opponents. he has a prison cell waiting. all the criminals will go to prison for the crimes they committed. this video proof he was true to his word. here you see the venezuelan secret police, the sabine, drag peen the former mayor from caracas from his home. i traveled to venezuela late last year. from the moment we arrived on this, my third trip, we saw the people rising up. >> freedom, freedom, freedom. >> reporter: we're probably a couple thousand of people who have overtaken this highway. is life harder for you now than it was? >> yes. there's no food. there's no quality of life here. we cannot go in the streets at

night. >> reporter: we met an opposition leader here. >> it's not a political fight. >> reporter: she's paid dearly for speaking out. this video shows her husband, leopoldo lopez being hauled off by the secret police just this weekend. and we were there during one of his many previous arrests. do you think maduro is ready to give in? >> maduro is a dictatorshidicta. he needs to go. >> reporter: are you prepared for confrontation if it needs to happen? >> i don't want confrontation. >> reporter: she's taken those messages right to the white house meeting with president trump earlier this year. the descent into chaos is now accelerating. caracas is the murder capital of the world. that's not all. its inflation is well above a thousand percent. and what was once the richest country in south america, one that still sits atop the world's largest oil reserves, is now the world's worst performing

we met up with second grade teacher vanessa, and she invited us into her class. she tells us that some of her students have fainted from hunger. [ speaking spanish ] >> reporter: but it's not just the students. more than a third of the country's teachers miss school every day so they can stand in lines like these. hoping to buy the staples they need for their own children at a much cheaper government s subsidized price. sometimes they wait for hours and get nothing at all. vanessa and her husband

are a few of the teachers that, despite the journey, work every day. it's a two-hour hitchhike and a bus ride to and from school. they had to sell their car to survive. vanessa and adolpho have to alternate eating dinner on different nights to make sure their son gets to eat every day. the meals missed have taken a toll on their bodies. >> reporter: teachers here need to earn at least 16 base salaries to adequately feed a family of five.

>> reporter: at this supermarket, prices shockingly high. so a dollar apiece for each of these apples. each one of these apples is about 5% of the average worker's monthly wage, just one of these apples. that's pretty crazy and now those prices are several times higher. the supermarket looked fully stocked, but turns out it's missing what people need to survive. workers here tell us they don't have the staples of venezuelan life. flour, bread, butter, sugar and milk. what everyone here knows is that we are all under the watchful eye of government-backed militias. but this one woman was so desperate to tell her story, she was willing to risk it all and followed us out. she says that s

pounds this year just because there's not enough food. she wants the world to know, she says, turning directly to the camera. our taxi driver starts to tell us, guys, we're being watched. we have to get out of here. we abruptly break off and hop on those taxis. repression is the new normal. the everyday threat of violence mixed with the complete failure of the government is forcing hundreds of thousands to flee. and asylum requests have tripled. venezuela leading requests worldwide because the death toll here is on the rise due to

supplies. there are no antibiotics. the government has tightened its grip on the most vulnerable. hospitals are now under military control. we saw armed guards at the doors. doctors tell us they're not there to protect the patients but to take control of any donations that might come in and to prevent journalists like us from reporting on what is really going on inside. in caracas people told us if you want to see how bad it is, go to the peripheries, go to cities like valencia. we drove through the mountains to valencia, to meet a doctor determined to show us the horrors that lay inside a hospital. so if you take us in, it will be easier for us to get in than

he and his fellow doctors earnestly and deeply want to get the word out about how bad this situation is. he doesn't want his face or name shown, but he wants us to see what is going on inside the main hospital for the city of 2 million people. inside the pediatric ward, hospitals provide two things. they provide the bed and the doctor. everything else has to be provided by the patient. and then we saw these children. it was already 11:00 at night, and all of them were moaning, writhing in their beds. nurses were just standing there. there's nothing they can do. all of these children waiting for medication and additional testing. this little child has been suffering from convulsions for

months. her family had to provide everything. and obviously she's been here six weeks and that is very expensive. now, with the country descending even deeper into chaos, there's little hope left. a country that so many people like vanessa are desperate to escape. for "nightline" i'm matt gutman. was it a drunken hook-up or a rape? shedding light on a controversial case about what constitutes consent? ease. you're a life of unpredictable symptoms. crohn's, you've tried to own us. but now it's our turn to take control with stelara® stelara® works differently for adults with moderately to severely active crohn's disease. studies showed relief and remission,

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now, to the surveillance video that helped get a college student out of rape charges. tonight you'll see that video and hear from the young man at the center of a case raising fresh questions about campus drinking culture and what exactly constitutes consent. here's a brkabc's jim avila. >> reporter: it happens all too often. two college students drinking too much and heading off to have sex. >> we were just drinking, having a good time. >> reporter: was the woman in this case, a 19-year-old university of southern california student, too drunk to give consent? this surveillance video appears to show her making the first move at the college bar bandito's and eventually pulling 20-year-old fellow student into an uber. >> she put h

started kissing me on the neck. >> reporter: but the night would end for him with allegations of rape. she ends up in the hospital with alcohol poisoning, but tonight he's a free man in part because of these videos. and at any time did she say no? >> no. that was consensual. she's the one who wanted to have sex. >> reporter: according to the police report, soon after they left the bar, he took her to his kappa sigma frat house having to carry her up the stair. his frat brothers thought it too risky to have her there. so they head to her dorm. >> maybe we should wait it out and wait for another day. she said, why are you being such a good boy? be a bad boy. >> reporter: the roommates walked into the dorm room shortly after 1:00 in the morning and witnessed the couple having sex in the common living room. but roughly an hour later the roommates walked out of the rooms to see the

>> after we were done having sex, i went to use the rest room. and when i came back out the roommates seemed very upset by the fact that she and i just had sex in the living room. >> reporter: her roommates told police premjee said he were wasted and she was all over me. after he left the roommates tried to wake her up but couldn't. when the young woman finally woke up at the hospital, she remembered nothing, asking investigating officers in tears, how someone could have done this to her. her blood alcohol level was four times the legal limit. when did you find out there was trouble? >> i didn't think too much of it at the time. it was only the following morning when the lapd came. >> what happened at the bar may be very different than what happened inside that dorm room. >> reporter: premjee was arrested and charged by rape with use of drugs and sexual penetration by a foreign object. he was released on $200,000 bail. all along he s

was consensual. >> i thought it was absurd that they would even make a charge against me. >> reporter: then last week at a preliminary hearing the charges were dropped. in the end the judge ruled in premjee's favor citing the evidence. this ruling strikes at the heart of discussions happening on college campuses all across the country about what constitutes consent and when a sexual encounter becomes a sexual assault. >> she a hundred percent could have revoked consent. >> reporter: vanessa spent three years talking to college students across the country exploring consent and the rule was o engagement. >> it's not enough for a woman to verbally say no. the man must ask her for a yes. yes, do you want to do this? yes, does this seem like a good idea to you? >> reporter: according to a sweeping survey of 27 universities, more than one in five female undergrads say they were victims of sexual assault or misconduct. as much as

reportedly involve alcohol or drugs. >> he had purchase d strawberritas for me. she was a student at the university of tennessee chattanooga hanging out at a party with a classmate corey hawk, when she suddenly felt sick. >> i was throwing up and feeling really dizzy, could not feel my arms or legs. >> reporter: next thing she knew she blacked out. >> the next morning i woke up, i was completely naked in the sheets at the base of the bed. he was at the top of the bed. >> reporter: she says she immediately defined it as rape and filed a report with the school saying corey, a wrestler on the school team, forced himself on her when she was in no condition to consent. >> i now have depression streaks, anxiety streaks, night terrors. >> it's on his record. his life is ruined. >> reporter: but there is

c.d. mauk is corey's father. >> he was just blown away. he didn't know how to react. >> reporter: corey who declined to be interviewed, told his father he remembered the night very differently and he and morris had consensual sex. >> would i ever think that my son would be involved in sexual assault? absolutely not. >> reporter: the university initially dismissed the charges against corey in a noncriminal hearing but weeks later reversed that ruling finding him responsible. but after that, a local court said the school improperly shifted the burden of proof. no charges were brought. but by then c.d. says the damage had been done. >> you're labeled a rapist. you can't go to parties. you can't be with any one of the opposite sex. >> all the court documents are in here. >> reporter: molly feels damage, too. still maintaining she could not have consented and that it was rape. >> life after

even close to being what it could have been. >> reporter: armand premjee and the usc student are another reminder that fun night out can get out of control. >> i'm very sad for both of us. because of this entire incident. >> reporter: for "nightline" i'm jim avila in los angeles. >> we'll be right back. abc news "nightline" brought to you by megared. .. it supports your heart, joints, brain, and eyes. and is absorbed by your body three times better. so one megared has more omega-3 power than three standard fish oil pills. new megared advanced triple absorption.

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