Africa. Every 2 seconds a person is forced to flee that home nearly 71000000 people around the world have been forcibly displaced more than ever before one is Marion Saudia who now lives in berlin every month she sends money to venezuela so that her family doesnt go hungry. I am. Going to follow. All. That m. S. E. Now. I know but i know you have to say that i want to stick up like i said get out there but at least i mean. I dont i think that i could be one of the by the book that the moneys going back but. Lets have all. Known to know the most i know you can you dont have to go but its an ok im going to call me. Ok but im going im overseas thats. Ok. 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 a commie has collapsed sparking one of the worst migrant crises of recent years. After. d say so but he says a venezuelan journalist whos been documenting the crisis. Over the last figure go to jail and there are take them out of orbit on one of a global although no one has already said that the military they want to handle. And. Yet here i am i think they are your own you know going to come in and run out for every little thing and here they are an advantage of. A kilo of meat 430000 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 what about if the people in charge of those lists inform the security authorities that they taking 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 moderate government at the end of the order that they will get. But this 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. At all across 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 the 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. Mentions poverty has always been a fact of life here but when oil prices were high then president chavez launched ambitious social programs a washing petrodollars the country also continue to take on debt corruption further drain public coffers while crash of 2014 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. Hear also 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. Plan we were on one of them we would have starved to death let us not even a lot of them. I just wanted to. See a little last summer when he has no work for a week he cant send me any money. But as in we have only one meal a day i try to feed the children at 2 in the afternoon but at the end they spend the rest of the day sleeping. Pill me and i get nothing they asked me for food. But they understand when i tell them we dont have any money lay there sometimes they cry. Its not easy when your children beg you for food but you have nothing to give them. That its hard really hard. Place. The United Nations food and Agriculture Organization has warned that venezuela may be on the brink of famine and. Like many in the country may leckie hard as children havent been to school in months they cant afford the bus fare. Hard i goes to the supermarket once a week but only when her husband has sent money from peru. She can only get the band of saturdays. 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 Gave a son in the United States have been frozen due to sanctions. Without the remittances sent by migrants the state would be unable to import even basic foodstuffs and medicines. That. Venezuelans will be leaving in drugs trade hungover collapse of the Health Care System and soaring Child Mortality those were. Travel documents across the border to colombia illegally the brain drain is an especially better blow for many of those fleeing are doctors lawyers and teachers highly educated people that are badly needed at home. By june 2019 some 4000000 venezuelans have left the country out of a total population of just 30000000. 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 have spiraled out of control. One of the lynchpins of the 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 of it as both his friends and foes called him has gone into hiding in exile. Me you must soon as you said the simple i just met the Petroleum Exports brought in about 700. 1000000000. 00 over the 10 years i was in office ok let went kookie by my calculation 480000000000. 00 of that even from taxes we got the rest from the pier daviss Petroleum Sales bill that is on 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 leading up to the 3rd its a question say self 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. The the end of. The. The the. The. The. The. The. Oh. 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 but says up the ts will report on it. I do have the issue 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 porn and that will be publicly insulters threatened with jail in up before have our passports confiscated at the airport took on the one has any of the law to report. Their rage spills over the young people launch an attack against madieu those Security Forces. They throw rocks and a metal and tear gas and rubber bullets. But it looks like a link at that. Particular time i didnt think it would. 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 with a swell. Number system would be the systematic persecution again the very same day i submitted evidence of the child his familys corruption to parliament some we had last night to look familiar to see a job we had evidence that more than 30 forming in states were involved in that corruption your labor but i believe that the parliamentary audit committee. We are human as i was jailed in 2010. Out of my family was persecuted. My brother died since 2000 and 9 am on a meal for years it came away with 5 years ago how did he die you he was shot one of these murdered yes murdered how. You. See. This is. From. Being. Self self. In my. Opinion its. Been 2017 when the us was a was sent to prison for more than a year the opposition lawmaker was only one of countless political prisoners. Like about 30 other parliamentarians aswat they had no choice but to flee. This video was taken by Prison Guards who sent it to us while his family in order to help care for us so its not all state employees are loyal to my do it all. For you. This would only help this mayor is a criminal state and it has a society of accomplices b. C. And this aside includes many civilian and military accomplices. And they are all corrupt and theyre all in it together immediately. Venezuelas political decline began under president to go charge as. His economic policies pave the way to a mole rats of corruption. The countrys strict Currency Exchange system in particular opened the door to massive fraud. Business elites politicians and state officials obtain state subsidized dollars through the central bank. These dollars were then sold at a huge profit on the black market water positive directly in foreign Bank Accounts. The state of ministration remains riddled with corruption. Billions in public revenues have gone missing. In the Industrial Hub of molokai most factories lie abandoned less than 20 percent of factories in venezuela are still in operation industry has been driven into ruin. Under chavez Numerous Companies were expropriated or nationalized and then were driven into the ground by mismanagement rather than support private industry chavez used petro dollars to import goods from abroad this help redistribute wealth and power away from the old Business Elite and increase ordinary peoples dependency. In the government venezuela is not entirely reliant on the export of petroleum gold and call time almost all necessities have to be imported. And as rough ale i mean as admits the country made another fateful economic era. Him a little blissfully looking at my duro install of his military friends and to keep positions in industries that look even to the man who heads the Petroleum Industry as a general for his general computer buddies over 20142017 ordered the crushing of the protests that is sort of but its all its is if a little bit now hes head of the Petroleum Industry. And knows nothing about it we see it more duros installed military people in all key industry positions so well you know if they have no idea how to run an oil industry at the go most women having the debate the need. Oil production has collapsed due to mismanagement output is now the same as it was in 1945 along with the oil industry the military also controls the black market and gasoline state subsidized gasoline in venezuela is cheap a bottle of water costs more than a 1000 liters of gasoline sold on the black market in colombia its worth a fortune. To find that i mean it has witnessed this corruption from the inside and who knows whether on his way down at leeds have stashed that debt he money. To keep on the left in sleep but youll see the bottom line is today i believe that at least 30 percent of government revenue has been lost to corruption is the new federal mechanisms by which money is siphoned out of our country its a middle of it on the basis that money flowed into private Bank Accounts in Major Industrial nations its not in zimbabwe its in private accounts in europe and the United States. Hes done. System of state sponsored terror is maintaining my doodles hold on power the collective paramilitary gangs who help quell any signs of popular dissent they have a strict code of silence and the government turns a blind eye in exchange for their loyalty. Commandante chavez called us the collective was a kind of urban guerrillas troop. When chavez came to power the color t. V. Shows were street fighters who were supposed to keep the opposition in check. These socalled shock collect t. V. Shows armed and deployed in case of civil unrest or the like. To suppress people who oppose the revolution. For. My bhutto support has been dwindling but not among the collectables. They also still to fend for the socialist revolution others proclaimed in 1908. 0 what were going to do. Theres one man in this country who wants to improve things. But no ones listening to him he gives an order and everyone does what they want. How can anyone rebuild the country that way. And make comments like ben said i never imagined id have to live in israel or one day say and i had a career that allowed me to support my family leave here we could buy what we needed. Even if it wasnt easy. But then it went downhill we had no food we didnt live well now who know maybe i will grant that when marian soria still lived at home in venezuela she was a member of an elite unit of Police Called fire which is going to reputation as a government death squad. According to. A u. N. Report theyve carried out thousands of extrajudicial killings they target criminal gangs as well as ordinary people whove taken part in protests. The un was recruited after she graduated from university she spent 12 months with as before deciding to quit after witnessing an extrajudicial killing. And at the time there was a search underway for all scoppetta by the state. He was an opponent of Nicolas Maduro and was plotting to overthrow him. As i dont buy that thats why he was officially designated a terrorist they only know that already. You know sadly. This was a former lead Police Officer who commandeered a military helicopter and dropped 2 stun grenades over the Supreme Court in caracas no one was injured perez had hoped to spark a military coup and free the country from corruption but his call for an uprising went nowhere. That everyone was looking for us got headers so much so that we received information that he was somewhere near el cerrito. When we went to his hideout. Then we began our raid. Saying at 3 in the morning on january 14th 2018 the torso then nato and then the media see. Youre all. Ok. As a member of merion saudi i witnessed what happened when paris was tracked down. Were going to go into a no no getting really are going to get out if you know. Who 1st said they finally know theyre saying oh ok that was the day when i realized i didnt belong there you know why i had a nervous breakdown. And i cried all the time and said thats it for nothing he said why should i be involved in this like this he i didnt go to university to kill people work at then we dont get that or to have my boss come to me and tell me to kill someone and if i dont theyll kill me if everything in any doubt might that look the same on my thumb in my family i will. I. I. Believe in her daughter i left behind with her parents in venezuela was the price she had to pay for survival. The state tara her writers doesnt treat those who turn that back on a kindly. One for they have really stepped us when you leave a state institution where you have information about people you worked with but thats not a risk they want to take that people who quit but especially who quit 5 people usually leave venezuela fact and otherwise theyll be killed also because theyll just say you were killed during a robbery so theyre saying they dont like that all at all at their. Joe i mean never mind. I send my mother money every week or 2 it depends sometimes they need something unexpected like medicine and medicine is very expensive also put up on a lot of money but normally what i send them every 2 weeks is enough for food and for daycare. You. Need. A lesson that has been living with her grandparents since january 28th like many other venezuelan children whose parents have fled. Other 100 doesnt have a passport and obtaining one is difficult in venezuela at the moment as a result maddie on hasnt yet been able to bring her daughter to germany. Meanwhile marions father and has so he is dealing with his own problems. That i hold. For all the daughters are getting would go for the daughter they call im a coconut farmer. By liverpool all coconut producers in this region have to Pay Protection money. But on the way if we refuse they threaten us and sailors like you are allowed on our farms. Dont tell us why we dont go there anymore. Its just abandonment then its going to be into their own do not of. But that harvest was how we earned a living those who went to more like what are we supposed to do no they dont have to go but what will happen if were no longer able to work our land and to harvest our crops they moan diplomacy. Criminal gangs are now in charge of his farm they sell his coconuts by the truckload mainly in colombia where they fetch a better price. Theres. No more than i didnt know. Carlos trapani as a human rights lawyer. But the rule of law has eroded and obtaining a hearing in the venezuelan courts is next to impossible for. The. Defendant all because this is the culture 9 o 5 distribution order to italy and. Lies data from 192012 find out how many children and young people were killed by gun violence more than religious and of all the districts we looked at this was one of the most dangerous ones googles. Top bunny is on his way to give a workshop as a Catholic School hes a determined advocate