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 didnt just come from the usa. Supporters of the right wing opposition asked for a foreign country to invade them as. 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 hadnt 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 norcos. Call. That. Easy home 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. The place where the local mafia random to members of colombias civil war paramilitary groups meet up regularly. 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 venezuelas immigrants and refugees. From reuters to the daily mirror dozens of stories repeating that the case here resembles syria and the row him to people of my own. They compared an economic crisis to a 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. Started. Many of the. One. 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 vehicles queued for hours at gas stations. This was another artificial shortage caused by private. Smugglers collaborating with local offices buying gas and other government subsidized commodities in 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. Almost. As i couldnt reconcile production in my mind i decided to walk somebody whos been. Following Venezuelas Energy policy professor Carlos Mendoza patella. A consultant on Energy Issues for the central bank of them as well and. We begin. With all. The things hes done thats. Been there as well you never see me or nah. You know again not a moment there they dont that i. Would. Go but i thank you. According to International Media of venezuela. Even though its been proved to have the Worlds Biggest Oil reserves. Is that really true. Facias. Being. Shown these. Relief and i know you know. Hes. Had a. Few on there but. You have that. Peculiar thing. I suppose when you. Get a sale. Doing this he. Said even willing to put on that island. But up. To a great deal. Was. Ive heard you feel like youre going to. Be a little bit jealous let. Me. Look at. What politicians do something to. Put themselves on the line. To get accepted or rejected. So when you want to be president or injury. Or somehow want to be rich. But youd like to be close its like that before 3 in the morning cant be good im interested always in the waters and look out. There should. Seem wrong when old quotes just dont hold. Any old belief yet to shape our disdain comes to educate and in gains from it because betrayal all. When so many find themselves worlds apart. Just to look for Common Ground the. But if she warned you and i did the dishes at the bottom or those jeans nudist beach and you see me you blue truth. About that come up and when you guys you. Can use i mean guys are that in fact involved. A lot of. Fuzzy fights about who can teach other both sides. As if. These. People god that they were days doing this is. An english lady a people who simply loosely new to my neighborhood in total. Even with the older nuclear reserves 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. Phil mickelson. They can see you can see. It. Because its cold the dutch disease and i thought i should go to whole and. Sadly we seem to have many of these countries and much worse Economic Performance much worse in a call to you much more poverty than before they had to oil well for the gas well or the mineral oil so all thats been cold. The dutch myself has been called the dutch disease. The dutch disease is something which is taught in the netherlands sneddons 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 guild and the made in very strong currency but as a result of that the rest of the industry in the netherlands 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 on uploads you. Know. These are friends who will. Be always one of them i thought. Well good luck if we see a bank well get a bite of the moon. Did i would your mom or not the good bit of good luck getting. On with bog. Is wouldnt kill the dutch disease. But for the 1st time an oil revenue wasnt going to the elite or to foreign multinationals. To the life. Of the money or the huge oil money even israel to helping the people of venezuela 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. And more money went to the needs of the suffering of people you go dry and. Rest and then they go to hit by the Bush Administration a country. Along with the Oil Price Collapse came a financially from the usa. Even for this purpose were going to announce sanctions against. Venezuela. Paid if they says its known by its spanish acronym the state. Were looking at the oil assets. Important to the government of venezuela it will make a big difference to the United States economically if we could have American Oil Companies invest in and produce the oil capabilities in. That i reached the source of the absurdity in venezuelas economy. Then when i tried to exchange the dollars i had with me. As well as the official Exchange Rate for the. Parallel black market right. Merchants could find the prevailing black market Exchange Rate from a facebook page. Things have changed they can find it on instagram. The administrator is. Going to look. Maybe an opponent of the regime in the usa some say well maybe. One thing was certain by controlling the Exchange Rate anyone could citizens against their government. Can make. A fake. Song. Take. 2 opposing sides have been 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 cant explain everything and is often used as an excuse. For more. Socialism is to blame for all evils. Venezuela has affected a prosperous nation. Venezuela hell. Free for all socialist economic model social this is not a failed socialist state. Venezuela this is the socialist dilemma. I dont think so because actually during the period you know the vast majority were in the private sector. They didnt come anywhere near say france which has 55 percent of its g. D. P. Is. Much 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 growth to capitalism. Of the people. But when the crisis struck socialism was blamed. The 2 may know it was 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. 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 Venezuelas Oil and needed the pretext of humanitarian intervention. There was something more. Despite its mistakes and failures venezuela christian liberalism and the austerity imposed on the population by the elite. Didnt achieve. But thats 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. Live. Live live. Live. Live live. Live. Live live. Live live. Live. Live. Live. Oh. Please. Live. Live claims. Live. And a very warm welcome to you youre watching us inside. Heres a news for. You boy. Oh. Just dismissed from the scene. The world is. Shaped by those. Who dares thinks. We dare to ask. 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