Every 2 seconds a person is forced to flee that nearly 71000000 people around the world have been forcibly displaced more than ever before one is Marion Saudia who now lives in bali and every month she sends money to venezuela so that her family doesnt go hungry. Even to fellow. I know mesquite though. They are. Well i know but i know you have to say that i want to stick up like i said get out of bed at least i mean. I dont think i have that i could be one of the but i do believe that the moneys going back but. Lets have all. Know and you know then well certainly look you dont have one to go but its a market out there call me boy. Ok but im going to see. Ok im going to. Millions of venezuelans have left the country fleeing poverty and despair even though venezuela has the largest Proven Petroleum reserves in the world. Venezuela was once south americas richest nation now its economy has collapsed sparking one of the worst migrant crises of recent yes. Ill. Say so but he is a venezuelan journalist whos been documenting the crisis. Over the last figure going to jail and there are take them out of orbit on one of a global although no one had already taken them in the very thing they want to hand. And. Oh yeah yeah oh i think theyre on you know the government and. The level of thing and you know they are an advantage of. A kilo of meat for 1st 100000 believe us more than twice the countrys average monthly wage many people are angry and afraid protests have swept the country in the capital caracas and elsewhere Security Forces have responded with violence hundreds of people killed. Last. We are able to determine that some people were killed because their names were on the governments Food Assistance list but if the people in charge of those lists inform the Security Authority that theyve taken part in antigovernment protests. But if. Its very worrying. The lists are a form of social control they determine who has a right to food. And they determine whos for or against murder Us Government at the end of it that. They will. Say so but is embodied in us the state in the northwest of the country as editor of the online news site and hes taken on a powerful opponent the government of president nicolas maduro. In thrall to money and greed the countrys oil riches have proven to be a curse. The cruise refinery is 300 kilometers east of caracas the countrys abundant oil reserves are belied by the desolation here venezuela is not alone in this paradox other nations original such as nigeria and golan sudan are ruled by a corrupt elite while ordinary people live in better poverty corruption and mismanagement helped fuel leak instability that drives people to flee countries in the top 10 of transparency internationals Corruption Perceptions and next major contributors to the International Migrant crisis places like afghanistan syria south sudan and somalia. In venezuela though the crisis has reached a. Mentions poverty has always been a fact of life here but when oil prices were high then president chavez launched ambitious social programs awash in petro dollars the country also continued to take on debt corruption further drains public coffers the oil crash of 24. 00 team was the final blow. Thanks its the most vulnerable who have suffered the most. Her. Lives with her 7 children in a slum on venezuelas caribbean coast. Our. Poll you. See a closer its a. Battle my husband went to peru because of a crisis where you know he went there to send us help here at home. If he hadnt gone there we would have died of hunger. That we were on one of them we would have starved to death that is that when a lot of them. Wanted to. See a little lost some money when he has no work for a week he cant send me any money. Then we have only one meal a day i try to feed the children at 2 in the afternoon. And they spend the rest of the day sleeping. With me and again love being with us they asked me for food. But they understand when i tell them we dont have any money left there sometimes they cry. Its not easy when your children beg you for food but you have nothing to give them. Its hard really hard. Life like. The United Nations food and Agriculture Organization has warned that venezuela may be on the brink of famine and. Like many in the country theyre leckie hard as children havent been to school in months they cant afford the bus fare. Here like a heart that goes to the supermarket once a week but only when her husband has sent money from peru for. She can only get the band assess it is. Others in venezuela cant afford food at all. People with family abroad are the lucky ones its a better irony the more venezuelans flee abroad the more money flows back home. Thats been a boon for president nicolas maduro. His government needs hard cash. All accounts belonging to the state owned oil Company Davis up in the United States have been frozen due to sanctions. Then without the remittances sent by migrants the state would be unable to import even basic foodstuffs and medicines. That. Venezuelans hoping leaving in droves weve got a collapse of the Health Care System and soaring Child Mortality goes without travel documents across the border to colombia illegally the brain drain is an especially better blow many of those fleeing are doctors lawyers and teachers highly educated people that are badly needed at home. By june 2019 some 4000000. 00 venezuelans have left the country out of a total population of just 30000000. 00. Venezuela was once considered a beacon of prosperity caracas its glittering modern capital. Corruption didnt begin with president chavez who died in 20 for a teen but in the 20 years since chavez 1st took Office Corruption and mismanagement of spiraled out of control. One of the linchpins of this system was Rafael Ramirez he served as minister of energy under chavez and at the same time as president of the pdvsa oil company for years his loyalty to chavez allowed the president to dip into the countrys petro dollars at will without parliamentary oversight or accountability. Javas had nearly unchecked access to oil revenues. Some went to fund far reaching social programs but billions also vanished into private coffers. Today at the end as both his friends and foes called him has gone into hiding in exile. You must see in the seals it does seem to me id estimate that Petroleum Exports brought in about 700000000000 dollars over the 10 years i was in office ok let the people think by my calculation 480000000000 of that they came from taxes got the rest from the producers Petroleum Sales so 700000000000 is it this is. The big question is you number one of the state do with that money so thats the big question going 2nd thing you know truth its a question say so but hes has also lost himself hes in neighboring colombia to carry out the Research Nearly a quarter of venezuelan refugees more than a 1000000 people have ended up in the country that the the coming of the. God. One of. The of the. 00. 0. 0. 00 the venezuelan government sometimes blocks access to the border some young venezuelans have gathered in colombia under one of the border bridges. Venezuelan state media has a blackout on stories like this about says up the ts well report on it. I read the history of not just their freedom of expression no which im told we fight to preserve it every day theyre risking that our websites will be blocked no hes shooting in program that will be publicly insulters threatened with jail or have our passports confiscated at the airport or the woman has had a lot of blood. Vera rage spills over the young people launch an attack against mcdougall Security Forces they throw rocks and a metal tear gas and rubber bullets. But i think thats a. Good deal i didnt think it was. But hes goes to meet with one of the duros opponents. These exiles know the system from within and are important sources. One man here used to be a close friend of the child his family women a swath a. Number system would be the systematic persecution again the very same day i submitted evidence of a child his familys corruption to parliament somebody had asked not to look for me there to see a child we had evidence that more than 30 farming estates were involved in that corruption. Later on this way and if you believe that the parliamentary audit committee. Beyond that as i was jailed in 2010. That is my family was persecuted and being my brother died since 2000 i am on a meal for yes i mean waiting for the sick or how many die you he was shot one of these murders yes or no