Hundreds of political activists assassinated every year by Power Military groups tolerated or even supported by the authorities. Even in the usa the Police Killed almost a 1000 people in 2018. Politicians in some of those countries have called for military intervention in venezuela to protect so they say its citizens. But we have troops all over the world that places a very very far away venezuela is not very far away and the people are suffering and theyre dying we have many options for venezuela including a possible military option if necessary. Im always careful when we talk about south and Central America and the cia theres a lot of stories. We are very hopeful that there could be a transition of venezuelans i was just down in mexico city and in bogota week before last talking about this very issue trying to help them understand the things they might do so that they can get a better outcome for c. N. N. Can now confirm the President Trump asked a number of his top Foreign Policy advisers last summer about the possibility of invading venezuela thank you. And now opposition needs you on honda has declared himself the countrys new president have you also the president of the United States for any military support in your struggle by and saw it on on the market as hes going to and i would in terms of taking decisions that even though this is a dictatorship the venezuelan people want to advance with whatever pressure is needed 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. Easy one 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. A place where the local mafia random to members of colombias civil war paramilitary groups me to operate only. 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 people of myanmar. They compared an economic crisis to 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. Seeing. Those humanity even. 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. Hours of 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. As i couldnt reconcile the Oil 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 venezuela. We begin. With. The everything hes done thats. Been there as well he never seen it or nah. And you. Know. According to International Media of venezuela. Even though its been proved to have the Worlds Biggest Oil reserves. Is that really true. King. And i know you know. That. This. Will include you know. The democrats want to recapture the white house in a bad way their hatred of the liberal Mainstream Media as witness president ial candidates say some of the most extraordinary things but there is nothing extraordinary about their hatred of the president the question is do they have ideas to win. This is a story about what happens auster a stray bullet kills a young girl in the street. What happens to her family and daughters in florida alone my other daughter is buried in a cemetery in meaning this is with your head what happens to the community the public was screaming for a scapegoat the Police Needed a scapegoat so why not choose a 19 year old black kid with a criminal record who better to pin this on than him and what happens in court be the. Shock shock as far as society we feel. We dont know shell share stroke on. The end of this trial unfortunately you 2 will still love no chill just. When lawmakers manufacture consent instant of public wealth. When the ruling classes protect themselves. When the final clearing go round lifts only the one percent. We can all middle of the room signals. To leave the room i mean real news is real world. Even without the or a nuke or 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 familial and theres a scene involved. Here. They can see people. Because its cold the dutch disease but i thought i should go to whole and. Sadly we see that many of these countries and much worse Economic Performance much worse in a call to you much more poverty than before the end or well for the gas wealth or the mineral wealth so thats been cold im dutch must be called a dutch disease. The dutch disease is something which is taught in that snedden schools one of the main gas exports he had all these guys he holding up the north part of holland around as a result of the gas being exported it 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 that was became less competitive found a more difficult to export to bowl so although we were well through in terms of gas our industry will suffer am i to 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. See economy still. But. These are friends who. If we see it i think well get but if the moon. Is wouldnt kill the dutch disease. But for the 1st time revenue wasnt going to the elite well lots of foreign multinationals. Lets look 1st at the old times and shove assholes to the life vest put a lot of the money over the oil the huge oil money even sure that gets 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 can poverty. Whatever bad things he can see a bunch of his death was true what happened off. His successes. Is a different story now we do have a story about the old price was too high but more money went to the needs of poor people the suffering of most of the poor people you go dryads rest and then they go to hit by the Bush Administration to any old rich country that the old price collapse. Along with the Oil Price Collapse came a financial in from the usa. Podium over to stephen for this purpose were going to announce sanctions against petroleum to venezuela associate the name paid if they says its known by its spanish acronym the state owned oil monopoly were looking at the oil assets thats the single most important income stream to the government of venezuela it will make a big difference to the United States. Its economically if we could have American Oil Companies invest in and produce the oil capabilities in venezuela. Had 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. Black market right. Merchants and find the prevailing black market Exchange Rate from a facebook page. Now 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. So. 2 opposing sides have been trying to explain the crisis in venezuela. The government. Internal economics. Used as an excuse. For all. This is not. This is the socialist dilemma. Because actually during the. You know the. 55. Years. Even when. Companies mainly of. The private sector group. Public. When its Economic Growth rate was double that of the usa and poverty was down by 50 percent. International media attributed the growth to capitalism. But when the crisis struck socialism was blamed. 66. Of the 2 made narratives putting the blame on sanctions or on socialism the reality i saw in venezuela was much more complex. And maybe dull. Chavezs bolivarian 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. The ball was still poor and the rich who was still rich decided to take revenge. There was something more. 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 came you saw i. 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. 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