amy: mark weisbrot, your response to that?well, i think daniel is right a fear, not just in the military, but anyone who vista what would happen if a right-wing government word to come to power during a military coup like they did in 2002. and within a 36 hours said they were in power, dozens of people were killed and there was a round up of government officials that had begun. the opposition does not have a the lastc history in 15 years in venezuela, not only the military coup, but they repeatedly rejected result of democratic elections and went to the streets and tried to overturn them. so there is -- there is a lot of people who are afraid of what would happen to them, not just military, but ordinary people, people associated with the government. amy: i want to turn to president trump speaking and may about venezuela. pres. trump: as well as a very, very serious problem. we haven't really seen a problem like that, i was a, mr. president, in decades, in terms of the kinds of violence we are witnessing. the president was tell

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for more on the situation in venezuela and how it could be resolved peacefully i'm joined now by mark weisbrot co-founder and co-director of the center for economic and policy research president of just foreign policy and author of several books including the most recent failed what the experts got wrong about the global economy marc welcome back thanks how it's great to be here great always great having you with us so first of all can you provide some context for us the u.s. media tends to portray more duro as some evil communist toady. nation of chavez bloody bloody law and and the poor people are just trying to rise up against this crazed commie what's the real story well or is that the real story no i think that's is the exaggeration you know that you see that the whole country is against them in it's actually still a very polarized country so when there is approval rating is twenty percent of the economy is iraq. actually twenty that that's an indicator right there because you know you go next door to brazil the president's approval rating of five ok where is venezuela's economy he's got

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