Venezuela's Activist Journalists
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- čas přidán 7. 08. 2017
- In most democratic countries, a free press plays a critical role in restraining government power and blowing the whistle on abuses of authority.
In Venezuela, however, members of the media have long been subject to censorship and threats. The Venezuelan government has recently cracked down on independent newspapers and radio networks in an effort to silence any voices critical of the ruling left-wing party.
In the lead-up to last year's elections, VICE News was on the ground in Venezuela with the activist journalists who are fighting against the censorship of the country's dwindling free press.
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VICE News was on the ground in Venezuela with the activist journalists who are fighting against the censorship of the country's dwindling free press.
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The guy in the thumbnail looks like Che Guevara
kool killer 2008
Ikr
Crack addicted Che Guevara maybe
absolute chad
I hope he is just as racist
Watching this in 2020 and seeing how the people had so much hope for change 5 years ago makes me sad. It’s only gone downhill from there and yet the patriotism lives on. #venezuelalibre 🇻🇪
This is OLD ASS footage, this is 2015 footage...
Sources?
Not sure if it was 2014, but I watched it at least a year ago myself.
Bloody Grundel i live here, that was the parliamentary elections not the constitutional elections, you can even see that by looking at Vice's old 2014 videos on Venezuela, they just made a "compilation" about them...
December 2015 election.
Brian S R oh, ure right, so many things have happened i even messed up the years
11:30 When you are a devout Chavista but you didnt get enough sleep last night.
Ok bot.
News flash to 2018, Maduro still in power, Venezuelans leaving their country in droves, further instability in the region. Countries such as Cololmbia have closed their borders to Venezuelan refugees because there simply isn't enough space and economic stability to take in the massive amount of Venezuelans fleeing their country. In countries such as Ecuador, Venezuelans have resorted to living in makeshift tents and unsanitary conditions as the Ecuadorian government too is running out of options to help and support refugees.
Sad to see beatiful Venezuela plunge into dictatorship!! We are sorry but ready to help saludos desde Mexico hermanos!! Don't give up!! Stay strong!!
at 3:17 where you translated "the mother of my friend" the actual translation is "the mother of my son"
For those that r confused about what fascism is or means: a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.
This episode is from LAST SUMMER and apparently Maduro is still president. How does this fit into the current narrative?
jgfwd yea I swear this is really old, and I've seen it before
It's even older, from winter 2015.
jgfwd avail yourself to the facts; after this election, the newly elected national assembly was effectively stripped of its power and so now the government has replaced that body with a new constituent assembly filled with chavistas and empowered to replace the inconveniently democratic Constitution with one more in line with their desires.
No one's mentioning that this is a reupload from years ago?
someone else just said this aswell but I can't find anything
stating that
Reupload for sure. And while at it, It may be an interesting question why would they want us to think this happens now when it happened long ago ?
I don't think there is much of a conspiracy to it other than that they want to capitalize on Venezuela being in everyone's minds atm. They're still calling it the same title as before, but the only scummy thing is that they aren't stating it's a re-upload. People are getting misinformed.
This IS a reupload, because I remember watching these same exact videos in this series, about a year and a half ago! This is the second video in this series that Vice has reuploaded. First the Transgenders in Pakistan and now this!
Yeah now I see more people stating it in the comments. Maybe I didn't look hard enough :)
Isn't this episode a little bit old? I'm sure I have seen it before. Would like to see a fresh look on the situation from Vice since the Assembly took over.
Yesterday, August 25, the Government of Venezuela closes the broadcast of two radio 92.9 and Magic 99.1. Previusly, Colombian channels RCN Televisión and Caracol Televisión were excluded from the Venezuelan grid too
Lmfao. 11:30. When did DreamWorks let Shrek out of his cage and down across the border to old Venezuela. It sounds like he's calling for "Fionaaaa....Fionaonaaaa"
Why are you re-uploading old videos?
interesting how many of the people were pro-Chavismo, but the documentary treated them dismissively
re-upload. this is like 3 years old.
This is from 2015. Now, everything is worse.
Jonathan Correa
Sanctions
thumbnails looks straight out of call of duty lol
13:59 Love that Gimbal"
Vice's previous showcases of Venezuela have always been pro Western views versus Chavez revolution.
um reupload?
Currently in vacation in Peru and there is so many Venezuelans coming over in masses!
Sebastian Ayllon Venezuelans are fleeing to all their neighbouring countries because of this regime
Ofcourse, because the foreign enemies have raised the prices of products from companies.
The country's oil deposit is more than enough to feed everyone and at the same time pay its debtors now that the price of oil has gone up once again. All it takes is for maduro and the opposition find time to sit together and find a common ground and agreed on things that matters to its citizens and their very existence as a nation.
This was posted on August 8th 2017, but it is about the elections of December 2015. It is extremely outdated.
Vice always does this..nothing new..theyve run out of ideas lol
Censorship happens daily on CZcams... even Vice!
Old news, this is from 2015. WTF!?
This is a re upload
as I have said before, Venezuela will not recover since a big group of them are not smart enough to notice that Chavez is the one to blame and his policies
Zarcastico No he's not. Chavez built a strong nation Maduro was just weak and got panicked when people noticed it.
no, Chavez did not struggle since he died before the collapse due to his policies and oil value decreasing.
Sorry but Chavez did build a strong nation, he rode a wave of massive income and wasted all in short term solutions and corruption, Maduro is just as inept as Chavez was, but with no charisma and appeal, and more important; no money.
Rene Alex You mean Chavez "didn't build" is strong nation right? And add to that, any tangible benefits that Venezuela had under Hugo Chavez were based on the very strong barrel of oil of prices that happen just when he was in office and manipulated statistics that his government made without any real input from an independent group. Like many had mentioned before, Chavez wasted that money in short term "solutions" because many of his policies were giving money and goods directly to people rather than have a system that can managed properly and were consumed by corruption within his own government and allies.
yeah... that right he did not build s*it, he made his best to segregate and make the Venezuelan society more polarized and antagonist than ever before; for his advantage, exploiting that divide for political gain and keep his party in power. add to all that the mythical populist dream of giving directly to the people is a mirage; all the housing, and vehicles where "social property" (against the law or the land) not private property, to be taken away if the beneficiary changes his political colors, ergo a mere mean of control. So the food and the services, just for loyal supporters, not for all Venezuelans.
0:38 where did that Footage come from? I wanna know
Leaks from Eritrea, Africa's North Korea
@@GoodVibes0rDie thanks!
Captain Underpants Always happy to help! :)
This is really old...
7:03 what song was that?
12:57 that guy kinda looks like Che Guevara.
Gipsy Danger he looks hippie as hell. Cool.
Its called a costume
Maduro It will fall is He knows it! May God keep all the people of Venezuela there.
An activist can't be a journalist
This guy gets it, objectivity and impartiality goes out the window once you avail yourself to activism.
Humans cant be not biased.
@TheCausation well, if you watch the vice videos of them going into north Korea and Liberia the first thing you'll notice is how likeable Shane smith is. The second thing you'll notice is that there's no real bias because they're just taping and any opinions you find either aren't important or are perceived by yourself from what happens
Thanks for showing all sides of an issue and not just trying to make us feel the way one side does!
Gauges seem so ornamental and risky of getting caught in a lot of situations.
The video is old, but is ok.
Venezuelaaaaaa!
Wait..hes from belarus and spanish speaking..wow lol incredible
QWhat! Who is from Belarus? Spanish speaking? Who? I was watching a video about Belarus prior to this.
12:56 dude looks likes Che Guevara
If you believe in your cause, regardless of what your cause is you will never be against keeping the polls open longer.
to all venezuelan dont give up, if you give up you are doom to american
This is SUPER old! NotiTweets is offline since 4 years ago!
I think context is important. 44% of Venezuela has access to the internet. Which means the opposition parties are really only able to speak to the richest people in Venezuela and this is important because Chavez did not hold power because he was merely a very charismatic character in front of cameras as they erroneously claim in this documentary. He kept power because he spoke directly to everyone in desperate poverty and made real steps to improve their lives. Venezuela is a failure of global politics, just like Zimbabwe and just like Saudi Arabia. The lack of freedom in those countries has to do with their dependence on resources necessary to the advancement of western society and the relative amount of access to the global economy they are permitted based on their attitude towards western economic interests.
There’s a reason Saudi Arabia (as well as nearly every other major oil producing nation) recovered from low oil prices in 2015 and Venezuela didn’t.
9 Enero 2022, Maduro is still in power, Guaidó has been president since 2019. 23 de Enero is in two weeks. Corruption will be discussed over beers by all Venezuelan citizens outside the country. The richest country in Latin America, third biggest oil reserves, Simon Bolivar are the usual topics.
Repost??
yeah this is old shit
So are these the same cool types Vice was hanging around with in Libya a few years back? How did that turn out?
nice re upload vice
this is old news come on vice this is like a year or so old
Are the tourist regions of Venezuela safe?
Today there are not safe zones in venezuela, it's a thugs paradise.
12:40 the thumbnail badass
13:08 LOL at Maduro's social media campaigners trying to appear like easy-going hipsters. They're about as relaxed as a bunch of web design students working on el Chapo's website.
According to Greek leftists (SIRIZA) Venezuela is a paradise on earth and everything is perfect. While they were briefly in power they even had parliamentary venezuelan/greek friendship committee (among other things).
not one person suggested that maybe socialism is the problem.
Hard to say what's worse; Maduro's idiocracy or the right wing groups who are just waiting for their turn at milking the country. Bottom line, the poorest people, the working masses will not see their conditions improved regardless.
reading americans in the comments gave me cancer
15:05 Historic Day
12:56, young woman in the red shirt is purty. Too bad she on THAT side.
So you guys are just running old stuff as news? Wow wtg Vice, you're failing hard
Freedom of the press, is a very real& now contemporary political issue-internationally. Whilst many programs, sometimes point out the compounding problems related to restrictions in communication, there has not been a blanket statement, yet. Illegal censorship, by governments, all over the world, are a detriment, to more than, only FACEBOOK. Bayo
Wow who knew socalism is never good.🤔🤔🤔
Sri Bhamidipati Finland, Sweden, Norway and Demark are democratic socialist countries. And have some of the highest standards of living, healthcare, education and happiness.
Matt kid No we aren't, we are social democratic en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model
Matt kid why are you writing false information in several of the comments, read up what Jesper linked. Actually look up what to be a socialistic country means and then you look up The nordics what kind of policies they have.
My country is not a socialistic country do you get your information from your arse since you are talking so much shit?
Social Democracy is pretty Socialist because it has a strong aspect of democracy in its society to enable policies that benefit society as a whole.
Thats not Capitalist, thats Socialist. Capitalism isn't compatible with democracy, thats why its leaving the U.S.
What quagmire444? I think you are confused, I am confused with your answer.. Is socialism leaving the US, social democracy, democracy WHAT do you mean with that?
What you are saying is that Social Democracy is socialist because it has a strong aspect democracy and that is not capitalistic?
Do you understand how a social democracy society works, I will have the same response to you as I had against Matt kid. Do some research,
yet History repeats itself.
I was a socialist teen many years ago, before I knew how the world worked. Socialist policies are one thing but a socialist state will always become a failed state without some kind of real representative democracy. Canada has democracy first with some socialist policies and it's working out pretty well. Health Canada isn't perfect, neither is the UK's NHS. But the thought of a US-style healthcare system is the stuff of nightmares.
I agree! America needs to implant the right socialist policies while not letting go of democracy. The way health care and education fees work now are terrible.
3:19 Wrong subtitles "la mamá de mi chamo" translates as "my son's mother"
vice news as you are so concerned tell us to lift economic embargo on venezuela
The Venezualan people may not look oppressed, but there are multiple kinds of oppression. For example in socialist countries like Venezuela they face Both Oppression of their freedoms and economic oppression. The only ways socialism or communism has worked is mixing it with capitalism. Not that long ago Vietnam was collapsing economically, but then they added capitalism and their economy is rising up. Look at China they had a decent economy, but then they added capitalism and boom their economy is great. I am not pro Communist or Socialist. Complete communism or Socialism does not work. One of the main reasons the Soviets kept power longer is cause Gorbachev made the change to Democracy, and sorry if I'm wrong about that. Complete Socialism or Communism does not work and continuing on the subject of Venezuala. Their economy was great until Hugo Chavez took over
The road to hell is paved with good intentions
Motorcycle Che should have been the next president, he wouldn't have had to say anything and people would support him.
He looks so fucking cool I thought it was a mask
Vice News running out of ideas and footage.
Maybe in the ashes of civilization ww can all realize we're the same.
So what I saw from this is that the activist "journalists" are whiny upper class hipster millennials and the chavistas are this badass right here 12:42
I hope to God that the president steps down soon. But if he Doesn't and this current situation continues to get worse. Venezuela is heading down the road of an all out civil war. And the entire Venezuelan military is on the side of the president.
just compare that hipster to the guy with the cigar and the motocycle........ do i need say more? aint it obvius? what is it exactly you dont get?
Viva Chavez, te apoyamos desde Palestina ocupada
chavez murio! y con ello el estado bolivariano
maduro esta aqui y se va a quedar, si te gusta o no te gusta, eso no importa
@@yahyabahsh669Él no se va a quedar, todos lo quieren fuera. Es solo cuestión de tiempo.. ademas e tiempo para un cambio.. aire fresco
@@Renjii1991 ok, estoy esperando
@@Renjii1991 nada esta pasando
reupload video
The political problem with venezuela is the same here in brazil
Government sucks and the opposition is even worse
0:34 I don't even wanna know why he has Grindr!
Rip Venezuela
I feel really bad for Venezuela and other South American countries they don’t really have much of a choice. We joke in the us about choosing the lesser evil but down there you have to choose between fascism and socialism. I understand why socialism took such a hold there was rampant inequality and virtual slavery. It could have gotten better but special interest groups a lot of fruit companies from the us supported tyranny, and violence to extract cheap produce. I really don’t know how they can get out of this loop and finally have a real choice
SON HEROES
Well boys it happened
The one dude name is Escobar lol is be related to pablo????
Che Guevara "
intresting
So FF. Its 2021
What has changed?
great
Georges Soros likes this
OH MY OIL MY DEAR OIL .OH TOTAL, SHELL, EXON ,ELF TEXACO AND THE LIKE...FOR OIL YOU WOULD SELL FATHERS AND MOTHERS AND EVEN WIVES AND CHILDREN.DEMOCRACY AND PEOPLE'S RIGHTS ARE JUST A JUSTIFICATION.THE BARRELS ARE THE AIM.
FREE VENEZUELA!!!
Vengo del futuro... Maduro sigue siendo presidente.
Ironic
So is this the socialism y'all want?
finally a video with good end
this reminded me about that southpark episode with all those loud obnoxious bikers! fucking backwater politics
This make America election look weak
All what you stated is BS
I don't think anything has Improved in Venezuela since this video was posted. If anything it's gotten worse. These people celebrated for nothing.
My poor socialism being slandered. If Jesus came to earth, He would implement socialism properly.