Maracaibo, the story of Venezuela's collapse • FRANCE 24 English
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Maracaibo is the second-largest city in Venezuela. Its residents face soaring inflation, widespread poverty and shortages. Under Hugo Chavez, Venezuela based its economy on oil exports. But the fall in oil prices led to a crippling economic crisis. Most people can no longer afford to buy food and the fishermen of Lake Maracaibo resort to smuggling to sell their meagre catch in neighbouring Colombia. Our reporters Matthieu Delmas and Chris Huby went to meet Maracaibo’s struggling residents.
Venezuela has some of the largest oil reserves in the world. But over the past three years, the country has suffered the worst economic crisis in South American history. After 19 years of rule by first Hugo Chavez and then his successor, Nicolas Maduro, the country is on its knees.
Chavez financed his generous social programmes thanks to the windfall from millions of petrodollars. With oil prices constantly rising, the economic cycle remained positive until his death in 2013.
Economy in freefall
The passing of the left-wing leader, followed by the slump in oil prices, marked the end of the Chavez-led economic boom. Today, importers can no longer afford to pay for their orders in dollars, imported food has become an unaffordable luxury, while the IMF forecasts an inflation rate of 13,800% for this year. Only petrol remains affordable. For the price of a pack of flour, drivers can fill up their tank nearly 15,000 times.
Today, Venezuela is on the brink of economic collapse. Only a few upscale residential towers, with barbed wire over the walls, hint at its past glory. Faced with runaway inflation, shortages, hunger and insecurity, two million Venezuelans have already left the country, hoping to build a better future elsewhere.
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My grandfather used to say that if you start communism on Sahara desert, they will run out of sand...
That’s a funny grandpa 👴 😆
Clever and wise grandpa
Michał Rumcajs
Are you a special kind of stupid or what? More than 90 percent of businesses are PRIVATELY owned in Venezuela which makes Venezuela a capitalist country with SOCIALIST PROGRAMS for the poorer Venezuelan people. Simple.
I suggest that you research the topic some more or visit Venezuela.
Brisa La Africana - privately owned by family and friends of your "President". We know that kind of business model, works well in Africa.
Michał Rumcajs But if you start capitalism in the Sarah you'll get Las Vegas.
My heart melts 😢
I pray for Venezuela. 🇻🇪
Love from the Philippines. 🇵🇭
sanctions for the USA!
Yeah. This is somebody's fault and not socialism, right?
Thank you man. We are indeed suffering the worst crisis in our history and I hope someday we'll come out of this.
as a Filipino we should know that prayer don't work....
Danex Pinoy thanks💔♡♡
Prayers for Venezuela🙏🙏🙏 One day your country will rise again...
love from Philippines😢
Venezuela could rise again if they could escape the attention of the US govt. Get the sanctions dropped so they can sell their oil again.
The Philippines could rise again if they could get that American, white elephant, power station debt off their backs.
True - just after the Philippines ! Care for another fairytale tomorrow?
No it won't. Prayer isn't going to remedy the Maduro ecnomic catastrophe-!!!😳. After ousting him/if that does happen. It'll take a decade returning to economic stability.
Main stream media in the US would never show this.
yeah, because it turned one of the richest country in the world, who elected a socialist official, destroyed the economy. How does economics work? Like a business. You have to sell something of value for other people to want it. The world is not a charity case, though sometimes we do offer charity. But not to a nation. You have to earn your place, or steal someone else's
@@samgao it wasn’t a socialist official that destroyed the economy. It was US sanctions, first under Obama and carried on by Trump. They want to steal their oil. Have already stolen Billions from govt. bank accounts in the US. Hard for a country to survive when they can’t sell their major export and when some thieves steal the balances in your bank accounts.
They do show things like this. All the negative aspects of the country. A shallow story that ignored the reasons for the economic collapse of the country and similarly ignored the advances made under Chavez and Maduro and the support the govt. enjoys.
Especially now since they are pro-socialism.
@@KeithHinch Haha! A socialist government runs out of money, and you, being in total denial, found yourself a capitalist scapegoat. How embarrassing!
They might be poor but Venezuelans are beautiful people
Exactly, poor is no crime....and no fault on their part
Sweetie...u cant eat beauty.
@@wokemind5320 not saying they can
What are you saying lol..? Did you mean to express that "Poor" people are usually unattractive you? Poverty is an ugly thing..
they voted for this.
My dad was born in Venezuela he’s says it used to be the happiest and the funniest place u could be that was 30 years ago now it’s a fallen kingdom
will towin EXACTLY, but all the American haters say this will happen to us but no because we have capitalism!
Before Socialism/Communism ruled!!!!!
I'm confident it will be like that again one day my wife is Venezuelan they are some of the best people on earth I love them and their country, the thing that calls itself the government there run by maduro and Cuba will not last
Actually thanks to thieving western countries. America seized Citgo and Britain stole Venezuela’s gold. Imbeciles still argue that it is the system of government that is responsible for the tough times in Venezuela.
@@alexobeahon4759 maduro and Chavez robbed the people there long before any Western country, look up how much Chavez, daughter is worth and Maduro in his celebrity restraunts while his people starve
This is so sad. Venezuela used to be one of the most prosperous Latin American countries and now seeing these images is so shocking and depressing.
MostlySky Thats what Socialism leads to, the next step would be full blown Communism
This is what the US does. Are they trying to save the Venezuelans? Imposing illegal sanctions is not the way to advance the well being of the citizens. Trying repeatedly to effect a coup to overthrow the democracy is also typical US action. As in Chile, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria.
They wouldn’t be imposing sanctions if the major export of these countries was broccoli.
@@KeithHinch Exactly, Iran sold Venezuela a full tanker of fuel, guess what happened, the US seized it. If the US cared why seize fuel that would be used to farm crops.
@@KeithHinch This is because of the totalitarian and corrupted regime in Venezuela. Socialism and communism never bring happiness and prosperity to any people. These corrupted governments always blame other countries, especially America for their incompetence!
@@KeithHinch
But Chile prospered from it going on to be one of the wealthiest countries in South America.
No. This is what socialism does. And as usual blame others usually the US for the results of its own incompetence.
That woman at the end is a survivor, a boss and an absolute genius, managing to get by in such lawlessness. She has to work harder than any of us watching ever have, or will ever need to. What an amazing person. She is a real hero, not like these catsuit wearing nancys we see on the big and silver screen today. All the best to her, and to all affected. This too shall pass...
finnyliverpool89 speak for yourself. People can work that hard or harder without being in those conditions
@@s13n7ki11l3r I think you missed the point... But another noteworthy point is that this woman is a capitalist. She is being rewarded for her initiative, risk and hard work. She is proof that there is hope for Venezuela if government will just take its boot off the throat of the economy!!
Anyone who would call someone selling their own fish that they caught a "trafficker" should be flogged. Imagine, a crime to benefit from your own hard work, that's socialism. Socialism only works inside the minds of socialists, not in the real world where people look after their own interests, not the hive.
I think there are plenty of laws in Venezuela. It’s the laws prohibiting buying, selling, and owning that are making the people starve. So it’s not lawlessness that is the problem. It’s that there are too many laws of the wrong kind.
@@markvoelker6620 I think the lawlessness being referred to is the corruption in police and government and how they do not abide by the laws.
reminds me of Zimbabwe in 2008 ! but we survived ! i know you will Venezuelans . dont despair
Zimbabweans could work in South Africa, where will Venezuelans run?
@@nuckingfuts3204 , true hey - even Botswana too we had work to do . but the crime rate is just too much in Venezuela , it will take long to heal such wounds too !
I thank Gos that Zimbabwe crime rates didn't engulf the nation. Prayers for Venezuela.
Rhodesia was the breadbasket of Africa, EXPORTING wheat in huge amounts, with a modern western infrastructure. Until socialist dictator morons took over and all the productive people fled. Productive people don't want to be part of such a system, so they will leave, and with them, their productivitiy. The sad thing about live, is experience is non-transferrable, so each generation has to learn the hard lessons over and over, and that's why history repeats itself.
we are knowing so who lives in Zimbabwe then?? The crimes right now in Zimbabwe is a brutal government cracking down on its own people. We didn't say Zimbabwe doesn't have crime. We just said it didn't become the main source of livelihood for a majority.
I'm from Venezuela and everything they say is true, it's critical here, the life has changed for everybody and there are a lot of problems that they didn't mention, they would have to make a video of 10 hours to talk about all the problems
Leslie Gonzalez how are you getting internet access? How do you pay for it?
Pinochet did NOTHING wrong in saving his Country from Leftist scum.
Fikitupper we have the public service of phone and internet called CANTV, it used to be a private Enterprise but the government took it and now the service is getting wrong everyday because we pay almost nothin for it (0.0001$ monthly) . The principal problem with this service is that the internet is too slow and the thieves (helped by the corrupted police) have stolen almost all the cables of the telephone and internet to sell the copper of the cables in Colombia (they pay very well for it) as the woman of the video did with the fish
Fikitupper we also have another enterprises of service of cellphone (like at&t) that are "private" and a little more "expensive" (0.1$ monthly), the government controlls the price of it and that's why the signal is getting everyday worse and worse because they can't do maintenance to the equipments because of the little money we pay
Fikitupper so I guess there will be a moment were we won't be able to get access to the internet because it's not possible to maintain those enterprises with so little income.
I am Venezuelan my self and this is a great piece of work that shows in a very accurate way what is going on at the moment with things like the economy lack of employment and appalling quality of life of Venezuelan citizens. I hope more journalist can keep an eye on the situation to inform the world about this humanitarian crisis.
AND DON'T FORGET TO INFORM THA WORLD ABOUT YOUR WOMEN BREEDING POVERTY
GALACTIC RlG lack of birth control
There is a book called The Maduro Diet: How three-quarters of adults in Venezuela lost an average of 43 pounds in two years
If Americans had the same diet they would then be of average weight
Pay attention to the fact that neither the citizens or the reporters ever blame Socialism. They only always blame Mudoro.
based black man
CAMBAR1962 because maduro is the face of the system right now and hes just a mere castro puppet
media like all noise making jobs are leftist.
Maduro
@CAMBAR1962 No offence but how much does an internet connection cost there?
It's a miracle that the country has managed to avoid civil war at this point.
That is what the Us sanctions are designed to achieve. US modus operandi . Then they step in and take control of the oil as in Iraq, Libya and Syria.
@@KeithHinch That might explain why 20% of Venezuelans still support Maduro. I actually think that the sanctions are counterproductive if the goal is to incite a civil war because they give Maduro a plausible excuse for why Venezuela's broken economy isn't his fault.
Venezuela has the worlds largest oil reserve. Fear not, the US will liberate you when you rise up. Every person is only 3 meals away from anarchy.
Tears on my eyes
Love Venezuelan people
Love from India
Those fools allowed Maduro to take over-!!!😉
So sad 😞 many Venezuelans are leaving the country recently there were almost 400,000 people all ready in Peru applying for asylum
Not just in Peru. The entire American continent, Europe, Australia, even Asia or Africa. It's terrible. But I always say that they are welcome in my country (Poland) anytime.
they would go to Poland with pleasure if they could pay a plane ticket, one of the reasons that their destination is countries of South America and not Europe and the United States is because it is easier to reach their neighbors.
Isabela caceres I know that, but there are still some Venezolanos here which you may find surprising ☺️ Anyway, what I meant is that they are always welcome.
It's happening everywhere. Over 120,000 people have recently moved to Florida from Puerto Rico.
Plx don’t come here in Mexico or USA or Canada we don’t need them lol
Today its Venezuela tomorrow its the world!!!
Amerikkka right behind them
Ummm not
not this part of the world we are too well armed & intend to stay that way
Wendim. it's the world if it keeps believing that socialism is the way. free markets and free people is better then a government run market.
@YugotSwaqedd the deep state is falling. Comey, Brennan, and Lynch are blaming each other. Pelosi and Nadler are making wild accusations. Marshal law may come but it won't be in support of globalists that want to overthrow our Constitution. And impeachment is their fantasy, just like collusion was.
When you eat your pets, your well past a “difficult situation”
Time stamp?
I want to express my gratitude for this mini documentary being made and exposed, there is so much going on here in Venezuela, those are maybe 15% of the problems exposed but it is something being exposed beyond the massive exodus going on. Venezuela is undergoing a major crisis and the government (dictatorship) is to blame without a question. My generation, young adults who were children when this all started, are suffering a great deal to be able to survive, I am a professional, an Architect graduated with honors and I had to quit my job cause what I got paid wasn't even enough to move from my home to my workplace, that's why we are seeking opportunities beyond our boarders, we have so much to give, and we would love nothing more that to give it to our country but here we are being executed, shot dead when we protest and being killed from hunger. This madness must stop and the dictator must be removed, but the army fully supports the government and is not afraid to kill people who dare to protest and rise against it. We have lost so many young valuable life's here it's sad and frustrating to say the least. So thank you so much for showing what's going on here.
Right, i didnt knew it was this bad. Like i been watching more videos like this about Venezuela and how everything is. And didnt knew it was that bad. Its amazing how i dont really see stuff like this on the news. Like aint much about it. They only show them coming and making them look like crimals when there not. They just want help or get away from there. Like i would run away from that place too. Its sooo much corruption.
Sofia, I pray for Venezuela every day. My best friend died there. She was turned away from the hospitals because the hospitals said she would die faster in the hospital. She told me so much of what is going on there. She was a co-founder of Copei. I don't know what to do to help.
Maybe there should be a Venezuelan group that is for both supporters and Venezuelan people...maybe some productive ideas...one of which would be to have Russia move out of Venezuela.
@@nxcarnage It is far too worse than anyone may imagine. It's a real nightmare.
Who put these people in power in the first place? Oh yeah, the people did. So it's not the dictators, it's the people.
Sofía Pérez Cárdenas I’m so sorry you have to endure this. I have a question. I hear the people on this documentary saying “ dictator“ I read your post you too say “dictator”. Why not say socialism? Not once did I hear people on the documentary say SOCIALISM. Por que no dicen esa palabra. I live in the United States we have many of our citizens pushing for this socialist idea. I am opposed to socialism and when I see Venezuela I say socialism killed this beautiful country. Gracias por su tiempo.
I hope the world is watching ,,, as this could happen to ANY COUNTRY if the system collapses.
It happened in Zimbabwe and people have normalized it those who're making money out of the situation are praying day and night for the situation to remain tough
Muchie
It happend in Zimbabwe because they chased away the white farmers who actually brought income to the state... They caused their own demise thanks to their racism.
Flemish Templar its not racism but greedy fucken politicians without any farming experience grab the farms and start chopping down trees for firewood and hunting animals.
Muchie in Zimbabwes case it most definitely was about hateful anti white racism!!
México says, hold my beer. Here we go! It seems kind of fun. In Our last election the left won, people with close relations to Maduro and Cuba.
This video aka "America: The Prequel"...
Was there in 2000..margarita..so beautiful..wtf going on...this dictator needs to be removed
doesn't take long does it?
+Dominico....Gee Dom , how genius of you. Our zionist masters need to be removed and are all mocking us. I got news for you. USA is on a parallel path to hell. I am sure you believe MSM. CNN ?? "this dictator needs to be removed". If trump was worth a shekel , hillary would be in prison....Who will get rid of our dictators ???
Kozmic Karma Koala got to be an inside job....theres no other way
Dominico pimp also in 2000 many parts of that island where horrible
Dominico pimp sounds like the citizens needs to rise up and start blowing up the pumps and companies
Remember What Bernie Sanders Said “These days, the American dream is more apt to be realized in South America, in places such as Ecuador, VENEZUELA and Argentina, where incomes are actually more equal today than they are in the land of Horatio Alger. Who's the banana republic now?” Yep everyone in Venezuela income is equal...equally poor
mattzx77 yeah but people have to earn at least 5 minimum wages that to could leave in a town outside of the Los Angeles area
@@yescali9046
But not everyone in Los Angeles works minimum wage.
I'm from the US, I lived in Venezuela in the 80's Caracas, Maracaibo and Valencia (ciudad mechanica) It was 4 bolivars to the dollar. I loved the Country and the people. Some of my fondest memories to date. Wishing a quick recovery for all of Venezuela.
That Lake is disgusting!!!!
still cleaner then you ganga and jamna
that is because the oil was nationalized and placed in the hand of stupid loyal cronies who knew nothing about the oil industry and placed their idiot friends in the supervisor roles.
Its so sad! :-(
I thought pollution of the environment was not supposed to happen under Socialism.
@@buckthorn7084
LMAO.
So happy for my little Guyana
I'm really sorry for these people
My heart hurts
much of that country belonged to Venezuela
I am hopeful that Venezuela will see the light of day again. RESPECT
Filmmakers afraid to utter the "S" word. Socialism.
Sunset Paddy because this isn't socialism.
Mama2agn You're right, it's only socialism.when it's Nordic countries! 😂😂😂
One benefit of socialism is that it enables it's adherents to feel morally superior.
The state will never be able to effeciently allocate capitol. And Socialism will inevitably fail after the socialists have looted the economy.
Nordics are free market, high tax welfare states. When their citizens move to the US statistically they experience higher incomes and superior lifestyles. Because they keep more of what they earn.
It WAS Socialism. Now it's the remains of a collapsed Socialist system.
Nordic countries are not Socialism.
So shame that I'm from Maracaibo and see this make me cry, all this situation in my country is fault of ignorance and now we're getting our paid back... I'd seen people seeking for food on the garbage and feel a little bit lucky cause my mom is no longer in Venezuela and I can enjoy a few luxuries but is sad see my country like this, with sweat and tear I'm finishing my veterinarian carrer to left this situation. I feel glad of this report. Socialism is sh!t
What do the people do? What has to happen to change this devastating trajectory?
Sell your gas/oil to the Philippines or other Asian countries. We need it badly.
@@brendavisceglia3977 a war only they are disarmed & cannot fight the military to overthrow it
@IlIllIIl lllIlllIlI Is that Nicholas Maduro? Welcome to RUclips, Senior Presidente! You're doing a bang up job down there in Venezuela with your Socialist economics. It looks like you've gained a few pounds since taking office. Bummer that the average Venezuelan has lost 11 kilos since Socialism was instituted. Socialism seems to be treating you well.
Maduro???
This is coming to the US. Gold and Silver will be a saviour for the American people.
You should stop watching conspiracy theories
@@moimtz US debt to GDP right now is 126%... that’s no conspiracy.
They will take your gold your freedoms and anything they can get their hands
Where are all the Hollywood people who boasted about how great socialism was for Venezuela? Where are Shan Penn and Danny Glover or the great Bernie Sanders.
Morons following their shadows to death.
Sean Penn
As a Mexican, this is a nightmare, I'm so sorry our neighbors in Venezuela are living like this :S and nobody can do something, anything to really change their situation, we are witnessing their tragedy with held hands.
Yeah, that’s what happens when people decide to be communist parasites and live off the backs of others. They all end up poor. Sometimes it’s irreversible. When you vote in liars promising free stuff like magic, you deserve what you get. Only morons believe in communism. The only reason Venezuela isn’t the richest country in the world is because it’s people are too stupid/lazy to organize their government and promote open market capitalism. They want to tear down the rich, who supply all the innovation and jobs and make new technology affordable for everyone. Those stupid losers deserve what they get. Let them be an example. NEVER vote in pathetic liars promising magic, like joe Biden. You’ll regret it, and it may be irreversible.
The people voted and continue to vote for a socialist government so I don't feel sorry for them.
The USA tried to help guess what happened when trucks full of food made to the border? The communists burn the trucks fool of food.
As a Latin American I always find it funny when they translate Spanish to English. Its never translated word for word and it's hardly ever what the people truly say...
Why is it?
Most language is like that. Can't really say it word for word in English
You can really can not translate English into Spanish word by word...
Venezuela will never recover.
500000 Colombian pesos = 300000000 in Venezuela = $146.57 US 😮 and thats 20 months wages!
Quick way to become a billionaire, go to Venezuela!
It teared my heart when hearing the kid not having enough food to eat and no future...
That's my people. I'm Venezuelan. I'm 29, I left the country on March this year to try to find a job in Chile. I remember as a child I used to dream going to Maracaibo to know that modern city which had the greatest Christmas festivities every December. Venezuela had and still has warmed hearted, jolly, nice, noble people. But the last years I lived there, I was horrified of the amount of Brian washed supporters the government amassed, all alongside increasing crime, inflation, poverty, hunger and illiteracy. Such is history, such is life, but I wish it wasn't like that. I love what my country was before.
i think the problems of Venezuela are not new, they have been just exacerbated by Chavez and Maduro bad policies. I travelled in Venezuela in 1984 and it was already dis-functional country with corrupt officials, rampant crime, nasty police, failing public service, unreliable infrastructures. The easy money of oil starting in the 50 s has totally corrupted and destabilized this country. The economy is entirely to be rebuild , but it wont happen as long as Maduro is in power
dou40006 Nope, you're quite wrong. Venezuela wasn't a bubble isolated from the rest of the world, it had it's problems like any country. But in the 80's it was a remarkable developing country, Caracas was among the best south American cities, Calabozo-Guarico was a paradise full of Italian immigrants. Little towns all around were thriving. The disruption brought by this government is new.
I used to teach for Open English, many of the students were Venezuelan. I remember in 2014 a lot of them started saying they no longer lived in Venezuela. It's so sad to see people suffering.
dou40006 beauty is at the eyes of the beholder and I think you're complicated very hard person to please, most of everyone will agree Venezuela was at its best peak on the 80s
Rafael Ricardo Vilorio hai
Please clarify that the international sanctions will not affect the common citizens, as those sanctions are specific to named government officials
International sanctions don't affect anything a country is able to produce by itself for its own people. That's the problem of Venezuela: the pseudo-revolution destroyed every production in the country, except oil
@@silveriorebelo8495
Exactly.
This is beyond heartbreaking.
May Divine Providence help this distressed souls. With love from Portugal.
DD they need a new government is what they need!
JP Sandoval Not simply a new government but a whole new political and social system plus friendly relationships with Europe and America.
D
No, you nailed it DD. Divine providence is what is needed.
phatcowboy76 because in the state things are in there I see little hope things change without some kind of Divine assistance... whatever that may mean to everyone.
Everything is true. I'm from Maracaibo. Excellent, doc.
How is it possible that almost 1 million people have seen this, but nothing is being done?
Because people still believe in the experiment of socialism. What people don't understand is the rich stay rich in socialism.
Bernie Sanders said Hugo Chavez's policies would work!!! Bernie Sanders = NEVER RIGHT!!
Judo Lover , could you give CREDIBLE EVIDENCE of such statement????
In 2011, Sanders said that, "...the American dream is more apt to be realized in South America, in places such as Ecuador, Venezuela and Argentina, where incomes are actually more equal today than they are in the land of Horatio Alger." He has since then recognized the irresponsible and undemocratic direction Chavez took and has distanced himself from his legacy. It wasn't socialism that ruined the economy, it was greed, consolidation of power, and hubris. The crazy thing is that Donald Trump is following in Chavez's and Maduro's footsteps.
Price controls destroyed the market. Not just because there was no hard currency for imports. But because there were no price mechanisms to determine how much and when it should be produced. I think price controls and a state run economy are a bad recipe in a country like Venezuela. And not even the Scandinavian socialists follow this dreadful recipe.
You cannot run the whole economy with price controls. That is why it was doomed for failure.
Hugo Chavez is dead. An ex-bus driver runs the country. Go look into better Socialism countries like Sweden and Norway.
no hassle Sweden and Norway are not socialist countries. They're capitalist countries. Western Europe doesn't have any socialist countries.
I was in Maracaibo many, many years ago and I remember a wonderful city, friendly happy people and everybody was actually doing well on oil......shame to see how polluted the lake is now. It used to be gorgeous.
Free Venezuela.....prayers for my people in all south america
As a Filipino living in a 3rd world country, I feel you my Venezuelan brothers. The only advice I can give to you is YOU NEED A REVOLUTION TO REMOVE YOUR LEADER!!!!
Everybody knows what's happening in Venezuela however no one do nothing
Watching this for the second time in May 2022...i am a long-term expat American entrepreneur/businessman currently in Venezuela ....for me, France 24 has been no.1 for the professional journalistic reporting on the reality here....my tip of the hat to the organization.
Socialism/Communism = Venezuela.
_"But ... thats not real communism/socialism, bruh."_
by the time they hit the real socialism, they're all gonna be dead.
DICTATORSHIP
Osvaldo Zapata but venezuela wasn't always communism
Venezuelan here, yes, we're socialist, But we're technically communist.
So it's pretty much inevitable to get rid of this ideology from the face of Earth at this point.
Isn't socialism great?!
Jesus please help the people of Venezuela..I pray
Venezuela has always had a lot of problems when the oil price goes low. Too dependent on oil. My father used to do business there in the 70s when the oil price was high and it was thriving. I visited in the early 90s and you could see it had gone downhill. Terrible crime rates. Saw a gunfight in the middle of Caracas. In 1996 it was even worse. The Venezuelan governments never made enough of an effort to diversify the economy and provide employment for the urban poor.
Also so much oil was wasted. 2c a litre lol for petrol. I saw people cleaning pavements with it.
in Venezuela they know that time as the '' venezuela saudita '' in the 70s when they were richer than all the countries of Latin America and immigrants came from Europe and neighboring countries, 40 years later now many want to leave.
My father had very happy memories of the Venezuela of that time. Hopefully one day Venezuela will be able to get to grips with the resource curse.
This makes me so much more thankful for our current president (TRUMP) in his own words " The United States will never be a socialist country"
"THEY are not after me, THEY are after You, I am just in the way"... qt Donald Trump
For every dollar we give the government, 33 cents goes to waste. Say NO to socialism. Say no to Bernie. Say no to Yang. Say yes to Trump.
Just a dictatorship.
Venezuela is such a beautiful country that has been totally devastated by democratic socialism.
60 years ago, Venezuela was 4th on the world economic freedom index. Today, they are 179th and their citizens are dying of starvation. In only 10 years, Venezuela was destroyed by democratic socialism.
Love you thinking of you praying for Venezuela, from California Bay Area. Mucho Love
I'm glad these videos are posted, South Africa, this is your future.
Yes and when it happens in SA, then it is all the fault of the Americans, right?
"You think you could offer some sort of future to your son?"
"The future? He won't have a future if WE don't have one either "
This response really broke my heart.
This is so incredibly hard to see and accept... OMG, I cannot believe this is the same country I visited and loved in the 90's!!😓🙏😞
Socialism !
I think it went past that... Socialism is the first stage, this stage is communism.
Flemish Templar right
BOO!
The problem is that they practiced mere "socialism" and not SOCIAL DEMOCRACY which is practiced in: Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Ireland, Finland, etc. That's the problem. Not one person in the government should be entrusted with all property and money. WE the people should play a part. these European countries are doing VERY well!!!
Is CANCER!
How do you maintain oil fields if you charge so little for oil / gasoline ?
Well done to the photo journalists for an interesting and shocking documentary. This is what the democrats want for the US!!
Excellent report. That's a piece of venezuelan reality. The situation is awful there. Thanks for communicating what goes on in my country. Hope things change there soon.
How sad I came upon this tragic story. Here in America, I do not see this news on our Media.. why?? I found these news stories through RUclips.. Why can't the UN or salvation army n red cross help....😲
They don't care.
They care but , noone can enter the country and the only way is going and attack the country and the onu dont want that .
They do they let the CORRUPT LEADERS take it. FIGHT BACK, LIKE WE'RE DOING!!!
It's a Communist/Socialist paradise,people can't know exactly what's going on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@peternoivo we got reports a couple months ago, here in US, that the military blocked roads to prevent care and food to reach the people
They might be poor but they have a rich heart xx Alhumdulilah
Because that will help when their children die of starvation. Ffs. 🤦♂️
A.K.A Bernie Sanders' and alexandria ocasio cortez running slogan for 2020, "Make America Venezuela!"
My Spanish teacher, who's a democrat, doesn't even support socialism. She gave occasional little lectures on Fidel Castro and how bad socialism/communism is.
Gasoline is free there. Dang.
ME DESTRUYE EL CORAZÓN VER MI CIUDAD ASÍ PERO HABERME MUDADO LEJOS Y NO PODER HACER NADA😭😭💔💔
Vero La RUclipsr mándales dinero eso ayuda
Thank you so much for sharing this information with the world
Next in line to board the hyper-inflation train: Pakistan and Yemen.
At least he didn't find a pirate in the lake. Piracy is now common there to take away fishermans' motors and tools.
I feel very sorry for people of Venezuela. I am from India and pray for their betterness
How can you put sanctions in a country that's already starving?
This is so sad!!!! How come a beautiful country n people come down to this level 😥😥😥
this condition reminded me of my childhood, 1997-1998 the Asian financial crisis, the same as Venezuela today, but after the crisis, my country got better and better, because we learned from the crisis and kept it from happening again, keep fighting for the Venezuelan people,
don't give up, i believe there is a solution, keep strong guys ......
OMG PLEASE PLEASE LORD JESUS SEND ALL OF YOUR ANGELS & ARMORIES TO RESCUED EVERY SOULS IN VENEZUELA LORD PLEASE REMEMBER THE LITTLE CHILDREN IN JESUS NAME AMEN.🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏. WHY SPAIN & OTHER COUNTRY CANNOT HELP HELP HELP THEM.
If Jesus gave a damn he would save people without your prayers.
Very well done.
Now go to Nicaragua to show what is happening there.
Gas Axe ohh i see it on tv everyday
It reminds me of my own country Serbia in 1993, it was hard but I think in Venezuela is even harder than it ever was in Serbia. I hope you will recover soon enough! Im seriously worried and wish you all the best 💗
America actually bombed you and thats worse than venezuela for.sure.
Venezuelans were quite happy to dispossess their rich, then their upper middle class, then their middle class; and now they are all poor except for the top socialist party members
Well suffer now, I'm not happy to see it, but apparently there is no other way for them to learn
Socialism eventually eats its own.
Great journalism! Thank you 🙏
Mt. 7.46 "This government controls us with hunger". This is exactly what Allende did to us here in Chile in 1973. When I see this TV notes about Venezuela, is like looking at the chilean nightmare of the 70´s . Really sad.
For pride of one man the whole nation suffers
I am feeling sorry for these people
So sorry for the people of Venezuela, I pray that it gets better . All the best from Canada.
Who imposes the Sanction is just as guilty!! NO???
Brought to you by Socialism!
Today, the real per capita GDP of Venezuela has fallen about 50% since 2013, to roughly what it was in 1946. There has been no economic growth since WW2. This is the worst economic decline in world history, with no end in sight.
and to think that THEY VOTED FOR THIS ,
Chavez owned the voting equipment. Research it. It's true. Yeah. Some people voted after being threatened and having guns put to their heads too. Have you spent any time there?
i cannot think it s happening for real....please venezuela be strong and all togheter dont kill each other dont fight each other cause this is the plan of who s in charge,,,,pray for you all
You control the food and water you control the people.
The government is totally humiliated and left the countries in heartbreaking
First nationalize the private businesses, now there is no nation and business.
If you listen to mainstream media you would think they love Maduro. That guy needs to be "Haitian presidented".
Love from the USA 🇺🇸
The love isn’t coming from the US. Misery is. The illegal sanctions imposed are the cause of Venezuela’s problem. The collapse of the oil price should not have decimated the country. The US preventing them from selling any oil was the cause. Take away all the income of the country and starve the people. The US once more demonstrating it is run by monsters.
Once you loose Capitalism and go Socialism, you'll never get it back !!! ..🤠
SPAIN DID! I will not lose hope for the people of Venezuela!
I lived in Maracaibo and Ciudad Ojeda for 7 years. I loved it there. I used to cross the Rafael Urdaneta bridge everyday for work.
"We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality." - Ayn Rand
Stop US sanctions and other interference, which would give the democratically elected government of Venezuela the freedom to fulfill its obligations.
A non-brainwashed person from the west. How rare.
I lived in Venezuela from '90 to '94. It was a wonderful place. Now it is a disaster. I was there long enough to consider myself a Venezuelan, at least close to it. It is now hell on earth.
Revolution