Taken from JRE #1316 w/Abby Martin:
https://youtu.be/O51yryBeNuY
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Taken from JRE #1316 w/Abby Martin:
https://youtu.be/O51yryBeNuY
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She is getting paid
I have spent six years on a documentary series about Venezuela,, it is nearly finished. Being someone who was kidnapped in Venezuela in December 2015, and surviving that, and then having spent all these years working on it, including living in Latin America and documenting the situation of Venezuela, what the Venezuelans have gone through, and the emigration of seven million Venezuelans to countries all over Latin America, (and Spain and FL) I am two minutes into this video, and Abby Martin is talking shit. The Obama sanctions were in 2013 on 8 Venezeulans politicians, not 2015, and it did not affect the country in any way. The country was already in recession in 2013 which is when the oil prices dropped, (and also when Chavez died and Maduro took over). Guido was a politician and known before he ran for president. . Trumps sanctions, in 2018, though harsh economically, did not create the situation. At that point the US had been the biggest buyer of Venezuelan oil which Trump stopped. Then Maduro (and he is on record saying on video) just started selling the oil to Russian companies which sold it to China and India. Ask 95% of Venezuelans, and they will tell you, Maduro is an oppressive dictator. For once the US did not create this situation. Before this video, I liked the small work I had seen of Abby Martin, now after watching her incompetence here, she has lost all credibility.
As a Venezuelan, who was born and raised there I can say from lived experienced that all we have is a thinly vailed dictatorship. It was shocking to hear someone be an apologist for this regime. The middle class was reduced so extremely to the point that you mainly have an ectremely large population under the poverty line and a small amount of rich people. While yes Chavez appealed to the poor people at the beginning he kickly let them down; Maduro was never truly elected by the people, the amount of shady things happening during the time of the election was insane, he was essentially 'chosen' by they say Chavez to be the next president – all the while Chavez had died from cancer wayyyy before they admited to it or brought Maduro to be a 'candidate'
I saw so much extreme hunger and poverty. I remember going to supermarkets that were essentially were empty, i remember lacking food more than I remember having food as a child. Venezuela has been and still it in need of help.
The 'houses' that were being given away by both Maduro and Chavez were tiny and hardly ever delivered upon, they also came with the expectation of continued support from the poor. These 'houses' on the rare ocations that they were given were given to people who essengially had only even know lives in shantytowns. There were some in ghe town I lived in and all of the buildings had a painging of the president's eys looking over the soace along with Chavez's signature.
The amounts of gangs running rampant was insane. The church I went to was mostly left alone, even when going into sketchy neighbourhoods to pick children up for Sunday school because they looked after the children and fed them (for most of those children that would be their only meal that day)
The violence and gangs armed to the nines was insane, I remember there were so many times waiting at a traffic light with my mum on the way home from school that 2 people in a motorcycle with a gun would pull up beside you and rob you.
I could say so much more…. it's just so sad to hear someone spreading such a lie on such a big platform.
I still love and miss Venezuela.
This woman is an absolute Angel. Thank you for sharing this.
The reason is a solid understanding upheld by all latinamerican nations's militaries that np one will attack no one.
Abd the have honored the agreement everytime they were either asked pr even forced to break it.