Last Days of Chavez's Legacy: The Fall of Chavismo in Venezuela
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- Venezuela’s December election was an historic moment. After exactly 17 years of dominating the country’s institutions and politics, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) - founded by the late President Hugo Chavez - was defeated at the polls.
The party, and its Chavista allies, was beaten in the congressional election of December 6 by the opposition coalition, which now has enough seats in the National Assembly to challenge President Nicolas Maduro, Chavez’s successor.
Indeed, Ramos Allup, the assembly’s newly elected speaker, declared on January 5 that there would be a change of government within six months. Under Venezuela’s constitution, the president can be removed with a recall referendum.
Other lawmakers have said that they would push for the release of political prisoners jailed under Maduro’s government.
Yet the president remains defiant, responding: "Let them call a recall referendum and then the people will decide.” Maduro has also said that he would veto any prisoner amnesty law.
VICE News traveled to Venezuela to see how the Chavistas prepared for the election, and followed PSUV candidate Zulay Aguirre during her campaign.
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I think this proves that, in any country, and in any language, before you say the words "Mission Accomplished", be ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that the mission truly is accomplished.
Venezuela is a bit cringeworthy
+Paakphum Countries without real political debate and diversity are really the cringeworthy ones
+Paakphum Try living here
+Andres Escobar Change is never a pleasant experience, specially in latin american politics. I fled Peru after the resignation of Fujimori, leaving my home and family behind, I know how living in chaos feels like, but pure emotional response just blinds you from the truth, and there's something suspicious with all of this media response blaming just one side and praising the other; the ones who tried a coup d'etat back in 2002 and got the support of all that privately owned media (that claims there's no freedom of expression) portraying it as a success while it was failing miserably.
Franco Linares Muñoz Ah, dear friend from Peru. I haven't fled my country, and have lived here for almost the whole time of this "revolution", my response is not emotional. The 2002 coup de etat was the biggest mistake the opposition made, no questions asked. But it has been 14 years since, and my country is in chaos. The media privately owned is now owned by the state (Tves, Vtv, Vive tv, An TV, and almost all regional tv stations) while the still private TV are indirectly owned by the government: Globovision, Televen.
You cannot blame everything on the 2002 coup de etat. We have the highest inflation of the continent, we have one of the highest murder rates in the world. I myself have been a victim of theaft twice at 7pm in plain sight on the street. On November 27, a good friend of mine was killed by a shot in the back when he was going to buy bread.
That same media that was silent in 2002, was silent in 2014, when students and opposition youth took the streets, the only way of access to information was the internet.
+Andres Escobar Unfortunately Venezuela has a huge political problem that's fueling and also covering other issues such as the ones you mention; it would be easier if one could discern between its internal and external affairs, but its not the case. From an outside perspective it really seems like the only plausible opposition forces right now are tightly tied to the US, and it's a very saddening perspective; there should be national political opposition force that could control the powers of the government and thus its corruption but at the same time they could worry about the inequality and general social issues, but right now they just seem to be a bunch of technocrats who want to restore old elites.
I'm really sorry to hear about what happened to your friend.
I'm a politics student and I reviewed the issue of violence in your neighbouring country, Colombia; which I consider a failed state. Its bipartisan system was flawed from the beginning with the two major political parties bearing the same ideologies and giving birth to an ideological insurgency which rejected the rigged institutions; something similar to what happened with Sendero in my homecountry.
Luckily in yours the population is very politicized but it doesn't resort on systematical violence, and your electoral system works solidly as all international observer have stated.
I can only praise -in a geopolitical and historical sense- the emancipation process that the current revolution is leading, an emancipation of the general subcontinent of south america against the former shadow of the Condor Operation. In a day to day basis is obviously hard to understand and defend, but just as the french revolution committed numerous atrocities in the name of freedom, ironically killing and jailing hundreds, -and many of them were surely innocent-, this will not be a black and white scenario, as it has never been with politics.
VICE News traveled to Venezuela to see how the Chavistas prepared for the election, and followed PSUV candidate Zulay Aguirre during her campaign.
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This documentary is also incredibly biased and does not mention all the harm Chavismo has done.
+Samith Mordraus Huh? This video is propaganda in favour of the sellout extreme right, who are subservient to US corporatists.
Chavizta jalabolas tierruo marginal detectado, sal del rancho yonaikel
+playgrrrr "sellout extreme right" lmfao
Fabian Bandera What do you think the political right in a broken country like Venezuela represents? Not the interests of the population, that's for sure.
This isn't the same left right divide you find in other countries. It's a unique situation.
***** You have no idea what I know and what my experiences are.
Colombia and Chile seem to be doing pretty well, what happened to Venezuela?
Socialism.
Andrew Bacon Sanctions
colombia is ravaged by drug wars and communist guerillas
Stfu Colombia is a mess, Venezuela also isn't socialist
@Charlie Ennis if you honestly think venezuela is socialist or communist your a fool
Venezuela is proof of what government can achieve when they dismantle the private sector. I work for Gulfstream Aerospace and 3 guys in my department are from Venezuela, one of them has only been here 2 years. They've all said what an absolute mess Venezuela is and every single one of them have said it all started with Chavez's SOCIALIST party. They all worked in the oil fields for exxon before all the Americans were told to leave the country.
All those new houses remind me of a council estate in Britain, it's a good idea at the time but in about 30 years it will be run down with poverty and drugs being big problems because the government will just build the houses then forget about the people
Of course
+cammy arch The reason they became ran down was because Thatcherite policies lead to large buildings becoming dwellings not a working class group, but a new group of Welfare Class whom had no employment prospects and little money to survive on. The turn to crime that came from that happened everywhere - the project buildings are just exceptionally hard to police.
These buildings could be fine if the people in them aren't relegated to a sub class like they are under neo-liberal governments.
+Chris Quigley I couldn't agree more, from an early age people in the estates in Britain aren't taught that there's more in life than to just get by and that you can be successful and that there is a way to get out of the poverty cycle
That's because there's not. They're supposed to stay there and terrorize their neighbours if they like, but not move above their station.
How much has minimum wage moved since then, how much damage has it done to Trade Unions and worker's rights? If you don't think the deliberate destruction of working class laborers draws a straight line to workfare you're an embarrassment.
Spanish soap opera : Political Version!
+hotcrossedbun Fuck off!! How do you work that out you clown? We ain't taking no more aliens thats for sure.
+C CMAC you're taking them & you will like it,bitch.
+jackpot9090 do you know that Spain is a country in the continent of Europe? perhaps you mean Venezuelan soap opera?
+urbanbehive8 Spanish is an ethnicity
***** is a wrong term, not even in Spain about just one ethnicity, you mean south american perhaps
In my country I can get 4x as much food for $77....
+nevermind824 we can't get $77. I earn $25 dollars a month and i'm so above average.
+Alejandro Castellanos
25 dollars is what they PAY you everyday to lie
so sad to see people sell out their own people with DOLLARS
MrDICKHEAD28 I wish that was true. And i wish you could get rid of that extra chromosome you got so you can stop being a communist. Tú estás pelando bola, te va mal en la vida y el gobierno tiene la completa responsabilidad de eso, ellos son los que tienen 18 años al mando, no la oposición, ni obama, ni uribe, ni capriles, ni el FMI.
Alejandro Castellanos yes you have that extra chromosome
US Dollar and the IMF is your god
Vende patria
18 años de la oposición tratando de desmantelar el socialismo
con trucos y propaganda
MrDICKHEAD28 Good luck getting out of your parents home with that mentality. I feel bad for your kids already.
Venezuelans feel the bern
I love how the different races mingle harmoniously. Black, Whites and native Americans. Chavez himself looked like a mix of these races. They've done well in that sense.
I was in Leon, Nicaragua when Hugo Chavez died. Literally, and I'm not kidding you, NOBODY cared.
That's probably because Hugo ran Venezuela and not Nicaragua.
@Ramen Lover clearly !
i was in kenya a country in Africa and the locals were saddened beyond my wildest imagination
So Vice is now running ads for socialism. Got it.
Just to let you know those who got houses are mostly highly related to the parties, they are obligated to go to their meetings and reunions, not really people that just need them, everything that government gives, it's nefarious manipulated by their leaders and their friends, their whole party consist in begging for stuff( the ones that take advantage of the situation), just to let you know how corrupted their system is.
Just to let you know. I don't take my political, social, economical or historical information from random strangers on a shitty comment section on YT. Keep your (at worst) US imperialism mouthpiece talking points or (at best) your anecdotal "just to let you know" ramblings to yourself bub. Byyyye.
@@robertstan298 fire ^^
If Venezuela had a competent government they would be one of the richest countries in the world because of their vast oil reserves. Their socialist experiment is basically funded by oil exports, mostly to USA but also India and China, but their nationalized oil industry has become increasingly corrupt and inefficient, and productivity has reduced over time due to failure to invest in basic maintainence of their oil infrastructure resulting in deadly accidents and interruptions of production, let alone the kind of serious investment required to expand production to the country's potential.
People are looking at this as the model of socialism and saying "see, this is socialism". While it is a form, it's not the only form. Look to Scandinavia for for how socialism can be done right. Don't give people apartments and food for their vote. Socialize education and medicine/health. Give people the tools to succeed. In their success they will make the country a better place. They will allow it to continue to stay competitive in an increasingly competitive global economy. The whole teach a man to fish sort of thing. Don't give people free apartments that will be crime ridden and run down in a relatively short amount of time simply because they voted for you. Give people free higher education so they can afford whichever apartment they choose. Will there still be poor people and people who choose not to go to school? OF COURSE. We need them too. Anyone who wants to work hard to improve themselves through higher education should not be prevented from doing so because they lost the birth lottery. People shouldn't be hampered with lifelong debt because they had a medical issue either. Let's take care of our people. Our people who want to work hard and improve themselves will take care of us in return.
*****
That wins stupidest post of the day. Did you read what I wrote? Try doing that next time. I didn't say they had current socialistic governments. They have a system of social welfare that empowers it's citizens, not just gives it free shit. That doesn't matter who is currently in power. Let me break it down for your simple brain. Let's say Bernie Sanders is elected. Let's say he enacts free higher education and health care. Those implementations could last and be effective for many years to come. Let's say 2020 Trump is elected. Those socialist programs could continue for many years to come, hell Trump might not even try to dismantle them. So because Trump is in power does that mean those programs are no longer socialist programs? Of course not. think before you type next time.
+José Villegas Taxing people high amounts to take care of society as a whole is a form of socialism. It's the most basic definition of the word. I bet you call Obama a socialist, yet in this context, all the sudden it's not socialism when it's many times more true. Funny.
+José Villegas So if the government takes 99 percent of your paycheck and puts it into social programs, then that is just "social spending?" Come on, you're smarter than that. If that's not socialism, then what is? Please explain.
*****
You didn't answer the question. What is socialism to you?
*****
So by your understanding, Venezuela under Chavez wasn't socialist either.
So take a huge chunk of worker wages to redistribute to social programs isn't socialism to you? Taking the workers earnings ( from means of production) and redistributing it to society as a whole, isn't a form socialism?
"Social democracy is a political ideology that supports economic and social interventions to promote social justice within the framework of a capitalist economy, and a policy regime involving welfare state provisions, collective bargaining arrangements, regulation of the economy in the general interest, *redistribution of income and wealth*, and a commitment to representative democracy.[1][2][3] Social democracy thus aims to create the conditions for capitalism to lead to greater egalitarian, democratic and solidaristic outcomes; and is often associated with the set of socioeconomic policies that became prominent in Western and Northern Europe - particularly the *Nordic model in the Nordic countries* - during the latter half of the 20th century."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy
AKA socialism done RIGHT.
"You can find food very affordable... but it's going to take you 8 hours to get it." Shmm
The cult of personality around Chavez is far worse than I realized.
the parasites who manipulate democracies through media in their favour have only one weakness. a strong man/woman who's people support him so much that they ignore the talking heads "media" owned by the parasites. Most dictators are owned by them doing their bidding and making non democratic leadership look bad. The only dictator is a bad dictator that is fake and owned by the real dictators. Screw you guys, you're full of it. just covering for the fractional reserve lending farm... screw you guys... I'm going home...
james adams, In this case, the one who manipulated the media was this POS
@@anika2001 naw, it's the capitalist media owned by what, 2, 3 corporations
@@syleiswiley266 Sure, I've suffered this PoS, I'm a Venezuelan but you know better than me. GFY
@@syleiswiley266 most venezuelans hate Maduro and that is why Juan Guiado came to the rescue?😁
Now 1 year 6 months later - has the situation gotten any better? For Hugo/Maduro people & dictatorship, yes. For every one else - NO !!
I love how people claim socialism is evil and yet still expect to be paid social security when they become senior citizens. And they'll bitch and moan about the government being "intrusive" and "overreaching" but as soon as Wallstreet fails, or a natural disaster, you demand the government bail you out.
+brainflash1
1. Social Security is a Ponzi scheme. Most of us don't want to pay into it in the first place, but if we're forced to (at gunpoint I might add) then we'd sure as hell better get our money's worth.
2. One of the FEW functions of government is to respond to national level emergencies. You being a lazy slob is not an emergency. A hurricane wiping out a city, is.
+brainflash1 apples and oranges
pwrserge83 1. You don't know what a Ponzi scheme is. Social Security isn't about making a profit, it's about keeping the elderly from going destitute. What, you think a pension is a Ponzi scheme to?
2. Never mind that regulations are usually put in place to PREVENT emergencies from happening in the first place or to lessen their impact. But no, keep pumping untreated sewage into drinking water, don't install sprinkler systems, cut corners in construction and ignore labor laws. See how well that works out for you.
Agtsmirnoff It's still fruit. Don't tell me you believe in capitalism if you still expect the government to take care of you.
+brainflash1 Indeed. You need a healthy balance between socialism and capitalism. Too far to the left and the economy stagnates. Too far to the right and the economy gets horribly unstable. The hard part is figuring out where the sweet spot is.
Capitalism isn't perfect but it is the only way!
Capitalism by definition doesn't even exist. any hick who knows how FRL banking works knows that its all fake money made from OTHER PEOPLE's debt. so call it what you will but by definition it is along way away from what the word Capitalism means.
james adams lol so ur a hick lol. The left are retards so I would agree
@@paulieheydrich9772 what an articulated factual response
illuminati Capitalism feeds off imperialism. That’s why the USA is so involved in Venezuela. They want to steal their oil.
There's thing called distributism and it will really works better than capitalism.
State-subsidised food programmes are always problematic, they were problematic under the Romans (e.g. 'Bread and games') and problematic in modern states, problematic because it encourages ordinary people to become so dependent on government to feed them that in their end not only do they lose the skills to be self-sufficient but the will to be independent also, in effect the citizens of countries that have such programmes end up becoming no so distinguishable from a beggar but the only difference being that citizen is no where near in as bad economic condition as the beggar.
*Poor* people don't understand this: Rather live in a barrio and be able to work and afford food than accept a house from the government and starve to death.
No not really
the exchange rate they used should be ignored, 500 bolivares does not even approach 77$. as someone who just recently returned to the U.S from Venezuela I can say that 10,000 bolivares is around 12$.
Thank you VICE Team for your ongoing reports on Venezuela. I find it quite hard to get current information in the non spanish media.
Here is a more accurate video of what is actually going on in Venezuela. czcams.com/video/wF_5xZIstPw/video.html
Chavismo hasn't fall. It is strong, alive and well.
This whole process looks really shady, you can really see both parties doing everything to get power.
I was in Nicaragua when Chavista passed. NO ONE gave a damn. I learned a HUGE lesson that day.
Kiss a tree woodpecker.
Nice to see you guys are covering both sides of the conversation... /sarc
please.. they aint showing much.. half of it is staged,, these vice people are sick, man ,, pretend to be so cool but its the total opposite,,, masonic shills 100%
the fuck with "490 bolivars = 77 dollars", are you kidding me? im from venezuela, and basically 1 dollar worths 841 bolivars in it`s actual price (2016)
+OSDarko 490 bolivars is like 50 cents!!! a 50c coin!
+Alejandro Castellanos I know it's fun right? So many bitches!
+OSDarko A quick google search says $77 =488.92 Bolivars. Can you trade 1 USD for 841 bolivars? Is there something I am missing?
T Myte Yes, you are missing something. That exchange rate you looked for (6,30 Bs. per dollar) is not avaliable for any Venezuelan anymore. Only people that works at government can get them under the table. We can only get dollars at the Black Market right now: 841 Bolivars = 1 USD. Actually, there are 4 types of exchange rates, but thats a whole different and really long story. All you need to know is that each dollar is valued in 841 bolivars right now and the minimum wage is 9600 per month, making it 11$ a month :)
+Alejandro Castellanos Jesus H christ! I bet all transportation and cars must be old as shit, like in Cuba.
if Chavez won over 17 yrs ago, why do they say the fight continues? are they now fighting themselves?
oh and any type of party that praises a dead man and say shit like "we do it for Chavez's love" is gonna end badly, most likely in bloodshed
***** mmm ok?
i didn't say no other country dose not have them. i just said they end badly. which for the most part they do. Lenin and Stalin are a great example
+100vasiliy It's exactly like that.His supporters have an obsession with the dead man and when I comes time to vote they said to "do it for chavez". But everyday they are more and more a minority in the country.
oh...the comparisons to north korea are so many
please,, you haven't been there.. probably to either places.. these comments are full of bots or schills …. get a life,, or a soul...
I was born in this country. What an embarrassment.
The translation at 18:30 which is translated as 'even at our own risk' is not accurate, the man says 'the pueblo (the people) will defend our gains with our lives if necessary.'
Like lemmings towards the cliff...
What a cheap title! 😂 11 years later... Hahaha 🤣 Chávismo is bigger than ever in Venezuela!
This video covers only one side of the story: Chavez. @ViceNews, you reported almost no information about the opposition, their values, views, and struggles. Where is the other half of this video?
Since the communal state doesn't operate on Keynesian economic principles, perhaps the communes should establish a sort of labor voucher, to offset the contradictions caused by the bourgeois currency markets. The problem is coming from, partly as a result of a lack of domestic production particularly agriculture, and also from the conflict between socialism and the international currency exchange markets. This might be a way to deal with the contradictions, having a form of exchange and value representation that is unique to the communal state?
6:06 "Theyll destroy everything weve achieved so far"
Well i can only hope so, millions of people dependent on government handouts might look like progress to this woman but it certainly doesn't look like it to me
USA 2016 = start to feel the bern. Venezuela 2016 = already burned.
The problem with Venezuela is a lack of socialism. What Chavez and Maduro did was using oil money to create social programs to help the poor. Very popular and good, but they did not end the corruption nor the capitalist system. Despite some nationalizations, the economic power was never given to the working class. The state bureaucracy grew as it tried to compete with the old ruling class. Workers were left in the middle, forced to obey either their capitalist bosses or state bosses. When the oil prices dropped, Venezuela lost a lot of income. Today the social programs are almost stopped, because there is no more money. Corruption and crime remains high and president Maduro is paralyzed. It seems he is already making plans for austerity and cuts to the social programs. The opposition is winning more power each day and soon the Democratic Unity coalition will control all of Venezuela. When that happens the nation will return to politics that was common before 1999. Venezuelan workers need a party for themselves, not the bureaucratic PSUV.
Bit cultish, isn't it? I didn't like the way Western governments, and their obedient corporate mouthpieces, went berserk over Venezuelans' choice of government, and Chavez did some good stuff while in office, but the personalisation of the whole effort was creepy, and is creepier now he is dead. Well, good luck, Venezuela. Your problems are yours to sort out, not mine, thankfully.
absolute hell hole.
#HandsoffVenezuela!
bien objetivo mostrando la realida de las elecciones venezlanas.felicidades
I worked for Mision Vivienda, and most of
The people who received a house were construction workers who were giving part of their salaries to the "guy who controlled them"
This guy was really close to the army and whoever that didn't pay or didn't show up for
Work was in real trouble! I know how it works, I worked for them cuz I tough it was the most beautiful project! But you have no idea how much benefit people from the Army receive from this disgusting protect! I just left the country cuz I heard too much! I knew too much! Mision Vivienda is the most disgusting project ever!
love it when VICE does videos on Latinos ... interesting videos
The sad truth i that Venezuela has experienced zero economic growth since the 1960s. This despite it being a resource rich country with alot of oil. This can be compared to other countries in Latin america such as Argentina and Mexico which doubled their GDP per capita during the same period or Brazil which has tripled.
www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-09-02/latin-america-s-100-years-of-slow-growth
Nice documental. Those things do happen.
The pizza box hat is genius.
I hate Socialism...
There I said it
Navy Zerimar what Kind of socialism?
So happy for Matos's family for getting a new home. No one deserves to live in a shack. Greedy corporate people and politicians yes they do deserve those kind of horrible living conditions. I just hope those people that receive their keys will be able to keep them once they get a new president.
What is the process of their voting system? Automated or open-voting/election?
I watched the entire rest of the video with the image of those guys with the cardboard hats stuck in my head.
iT was beautiful seeing people moving from that horrible place and into a real home and been uplifted to the level of human being and not been treated like a bug.
+Leo 74 Yeah especially when they rubbed it in who they should be grateful to, real uplifting !
I have helped earthquakes victims by distributing basic necessities because the government was too slow at responding to the disaster and I never expect anything in return , I wasn't running for office. There is no fucking string attached to help I gave to them.
+TheinnerCircl3 Well good for you if the whole of humanity would treat one another the same way the world would not be the way it is.
How did that turn out u idiot
Yes, but I wonder about the quality of the construction. I hope they have a lot of candles. Power outages are common in Venezuela.
oh btw .... they lost by a land slyde
i can't tell you all how good it feels to see the new assembly's sessions. finally we can really fight for a better country.
Venezuela used to be the wealthiest country in south America. Sad to see it like this
Chavez died of cancer, hope his death was long and very painful for what he did to the people he swindled
have a little respect if not for a fellow human being, then for yourself. Chavez did believe in an impossible dream, an utopia; but he meant genuinely good. He met poverty while young and wanted to change the lives of the poor people. But this things are impossible in such an ugly, greedy and unkind world of ours.
My fulliest respect to Hugo Chavez!
The movement is isolated as a result of American sanctions, I don't know how to best stand in solidarity with the Bolivarian movement? Vice wrote his as if the PSUV wants the country in poverty. This is a moment when the people are struggling, American foreign policy should not be making it any more difficult than necessary.
the first day in the projects!! so clean
failed to mention that socialism doesn't work at all.... these people could all be so wealthy...
lol theirs going to be so much crime in those free government homes.
it's not about communism or capitalism it's about people starving and they don't have enough food or placr to live and Chavez was a great man to try to help his people
No government is perfect but Venezuela isn't a bad country and Hugo Chavez had a dream for his country a leader , Thats the issue today there are more heads of states instead of leaders
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings, the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." - Winston Churchill
heh little bit of a cult for Chavez yea you love his government gives you free food and a apartment just avoid the bigger problems
like the American cult of avoiding reality.
Regarding that assertion that poverty reduced in the beggining of Chávez's government, it should be noted that during that time oil prices skyrocketed. Oil is 92% of Venezuelan exports. Even if a 12 year old was in charge of the country poverty would fall.
Bs F 490 is really 0.50 $, Today 1$ are 810 BsF and the minimum salary are 9700 Bsf = 12 $
I am not a communist,but i love the humanity of Hugo Chavez
To save Venezuela, get a democratic socialism system like the Scandinavian countries.
Not possible, those are incredibly disproportionately oil and fishery rich nations.. A form of what appears to be socialism only works there because it is a means of huge state wealth distribution. Without it, they would be as poor as any other socialist nations. Its like watching a lottery winner start his own small holding farm and then concluding his cabbages and goats are the reason for his Porsche.
@@kickpublishing Venezuela is (was) the country with the most oil on earth. The problem is that they didn't invest a cent on the countries industry instead they just import all the products they need.
Which legacy: Violence, narcotraffic, corruption?
Maybe someone should inform Venezuela of how little the US cares about them.
"The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." Sir Winston Churchill
go ask the poor Venezuelans about that who had nothing before and now have an education and better health care than you do,,, if youre American.. ,, even if they are hungry , do you know what a blockade can do to a country.. and Venezuelan were screwed already (cultreless) long before Chavez came to power,, he just tried to save things and turn them around.. maybe who knows the truth..
No one cares what Churchil thinks, if you don't know Churchil isn't known for his economic knowledge. What he is known for is starving 3 million Bengalis by stealing their food to feed his army.
Churchill is one of the most overrated political figures of all time.
Chavez stood up to the IMF and US imperialism for the interests of the people. True legend.
FYI he left over 4 billion dollars to his daughters when he passed away....true thief of the people
veo muchos comentarios en ingles.. pero yo voy a comentar en español.. porfin despues de 17 años el socialismo cae! alfin! ya no mas comunismo ya no mas dictadura.. gracias por hacer este documental! GRACIAS! .. nosotros los venezolanos alfin vamos a salir de este nefasto gobierno!
this has nothing to do with the video, if so partially. i love reading comments, the mean, the polite, the troll, etc... free speech is fascinating
All the loss of the PSUV proves is that Venezuela is a legitimate socialist democracy. The PSUV will overcome, re organize, and ultimately, keep the revolution and progress alive.
so many Venezuelans still speak so proudly and fondly of Chavez? i don't understand..
Viva Chavez!
Finally, we have won! I want to cry of excitement for my people. May God protect them.
The dangers of economic ignorance
Man I feel bad for our bros in Venezuela and the rest of SA. If only history and policy made it so North and South America were bestest bros and worked to make the America's #1
Sigh, maybe one day. GL out there Venezuela
¿Dé que sirve tener una vivienda si no tienes comida?
Finally a video on Venezuela
Now tell the story from the opposition's point of view!
:( Venezuela doesn't want to "Feel the Bern" anymore? But who is going to give them empty promises now?
oh boy they didn't even know what was coming
I didnt know Venezuela was so diverse in the color of their people.
I strongly support President Maduro...
One PSUV activist said that "this is important election". Historically, the Asamblea Nacional elections are not important in this country, and it never was a mainly concerne for the governamental propaganda BUT in 2014-2015, polls was pretty negative to the goverment, and PSUV made a big effort for reverse this.
They used to giveaway electrodomestics and cash for buy votes, this time the price of oil is falling and government had not enough gains to be tricky...
Btw, this is the biggest elections in our democratic history. Over 75% of votants voted, even Chávez made that happen in any elections.
Most people would rather buy food a little expensive whenever they want and in any time of the day than standing in long lines for hours. Thank god i have this freedom.
Wait what are they fighting about....
"Oh you voted, yeah here in my hands is the polling w/names.. You want that walking stick??? Okay sure nuff.. You voted for us.. Congratulations.. here's your walking stick." ARFK
Al 15:21 esa gente ya sabía que había perdido... - By 15:21 those people knew they have lost !
These poor people don't know how terrible they have it.
I only desagree with one small thing: 490 bolivares ain't 77 US dollars, it's bearly 47 cents, and let me tell you something else, the minimum wage in Venezuela is 11.400 bollivares, which means venezuelans who make that kind of money by a month of work earn about 10/11 US dollars. That's the trap of the venezuelan currency policy.
at 2:45, original to the next mothafucking LEVEL!
Things don't look that hopeless in Venezuela
This is a f#%$&# disgrace we are kipnapped by gangster. We need help!!! The dictatorship in Venezuela is violent.
question mark on your title would have presented better
1:11 - 77 dollars my ass, 1 USD is about 850-900 Bolivares on the "Black market". its near impossible to get them for anything less than that.