to talk more about that i'm joined by daniel lance berkman northwestern university, joining us now from chicago. thanks for being with us on tonight. next the protests have been going on nearly every day. are they getting bigger are organized?re what changes do you see? >> thank you for having me on the program. changed but have not dramatically in terms of the number of people over the last couple of weeks. what is happening is that they remain organized in so far as the organization would have a certain place they asked protesters to go to on a given day. many problems venezuela has, they are protesting. call it a rejection on principle of a, this by high levels shortage ofnd medicines. there could be any number of reasons, but where they do change and where they have changed over the last several , somewhere in levels of chaos. the people are becoming more desperate. the government is coming down with a very heavy hand. a lot of the early violence we saw was a bit opportunistic, , for example. now there is violence that is taking place as protesters gather en masse. laura: and worryi