chavez during his era he was able to repatriate around one hundred sixty tons of gold back to caucus from the u.s. and from europe from england especially particularly but now we're looking at different times for venezuela where they're struggling and the u.s. is lobbying for the bank of england to withhold that gold unless it's returned to the interim president the tells declared president long white no many analysts say that this could be a message a red flag for other country. to have their gold reserves in the bank of england because this isn't the first time that it's happened former u.k. member of parliament george galloway actually spoke from experience this is what he said it is not the first time of course that this has happened myself negotiated with the british government of england for the release of our lives gold star overthrew communism but the british were still holding on to their gold which they had seized in nineteen forty four and tell you it took a lot of negotiating to get the gold released. the british very unreliable place to burn your money managing director

chavez became serving as president of venezuela during the venice and during the venezuela general strike of two thousand and two president chavez fired over nineteen thousand employees of p d.v.s. a and replaced them with employees a loyalist to his government and now all the venezuela has the world's largest oil reserves most of venezuela's oil consist of extra heavy crude in the orinoco belts this oil is particularly challenging to produce part which is by venezuela invited international oil companies in developing these reserves and companies like exxon mobil b.p. chevron total and conoco phillips invested billions of dollars in technology and infrastructure to turn the extra heavy oil into crude oil exports now the challenge in producing these oil requires significant capital investment and u.s. is venezuela's biggest customer exporting and venezuela exports about forty eight percent of the oil exports to the u.s. and as their biggest foreign asset is citgo the u.s. based refinery and now currently venezuela accounts for about six percent of u.s. crude oil imports so any destruction

in the interim president has drug gang but accuses the country's previously to hugo chavez who died 6 years ago saying and. children in nigeria were being held in conditions without trial over their alleged association with terrorists we spoke to one of the authors of the report the describe severely overcrowded. 200.

well look painter one mistakes made by hugo chavez and nicolas maduro of coop's mistakes were made by parts that you tell me into a president or prime minister doesn't make mistakes however is that venezuela was given back to the venezuelan people didn't see it was restored to venezuela venezuela's state industries and not sure what resources were given back to the venezuelan people and if he says it is that first and foremost that makes people in washington and london foam at the mouth including those wretched journalists journalists in inverted commas who work for corporates major and other also have this piece of very very quickly it's not just the likes of trump the clintons of barbara bush all right and both and who should be in an international court trial for crimes against humanity it is the owners and edges of kookery major outlets who should also be joining them in the in the dark ok i want to stay with marcus here because you're turning into my sherpa for explaining the quagmire i mean is that a word a lot in this program these days call briggs it what's going on with brigg

chavez and now by nicolas maduro in the united socialist party but at the moment there are rumors that that opposition to the elected venezuelan government could ask elate. who is a political analyst and also the. whale another says dot com he believes that the united states has been trying to some but sabotage democratic candidates in venezuela. the issue with men as well is that not only has the united states continually financed one of the in opposition and freedom of information act request. filed by eva golinger show that at least fifty million dollars us financing has gone usa can you imagine if the russian government was financing a political party in the united states the react the public reaction but not only that it goes even farther to the united states when it's far to threaten to sanction the opposition presidential candidate last year had recalled gone for daring to defy the u.s. backed opposition boycott of that election on the argument that his candidacy would confer legitimacy to the government i mean this is you know this is this is. washington claims to speak of demo

visiting professor at science pope lady and former vice minister of foreign affairs under president hugo chavez our gentleman crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it all right let me go to alan in edinburgh you're by far probably the best expert on this you've written a book about it and i have no question that you probably could write at least a few more chapters to your book on western media coverage of venezuela i think that that's not an understatement go ahead in edinburgh. here for sure this is just the latest chapter and the media hysteria over fairness will of this latest bridge a chapter across the western media we saw reports that make true it was a dictator it was starving its own citizens destroying eight and yet this narrative was very clearly immediately on social media and by the international press and yet it took weeks for the new york times to to change their story. it shouldn't have taken a toll any time a toll frankly because the official narrative was always so ridiculous i mean the official narrative was that

chavez who died 6 years ago the same thing. and a new report reveals the thousands of children in nigeria well being held in dark conditions without trial over their alleged association with terrorists spoke to one of the authors of the report. he described severely overpowered.

brought back hugo chavez safely to his desk which they did i mean this is quite amazing to me and by the way here's a connection once again it's the corporate connection last year the british government and british petroleum asked the venezuelan government you know the guys they call dictators to give british petroleum the oil fields of that were run by french took top the french company they wanted the french fields so at that point if if venezuela had given british petroleum the your oil fields you know then they wouldn't and then obviously the government wouldn't be a dictatorship for people understand what's really going on in venezuela because your press even in britain and europe has been terrible on this and i saw this back when chavez was president you have to understand the current government like chavez is made up of misty's those people the child as he told me are naked and you know anything i'm black and i'm indian featured in the white people hate this it's a seventy percent. miskito nation that is it's made up of people who are black or mixed race or indigenous people s

hugo chavez says revolution is screeching to a halt inflation and unemployment cause millions to leave venezuela world powers a lot of job or where the president maduro should stay but the real question is how should the country move on from its current crisis. and i need another one of the highest in my town sway you don't force us to see. benefits for mukti of our. plans in this way got to dog so hard not to think in the dismayed to see the look like they power and i don't miss. all right then if. this is the only thing that we do is music because everybody fights his way. to. the floor you can talk the fifty out of this will persuade you that the call will be a ballot box with the death penalty on the. books but i think it is this is the found that is a constant thank. welcome back we're now going to move away from washington beltway and westminster bubble politics to go to an undisclosed location in the middle of the ocean cyber security pioneer john mcafee is currently running his u.s. twenty twenty presidential campaign in exile due to what he says on charges of using crypto curr

chavez and now by nicolas maduro in the united socialist party. at the moment there are rumors that that opposition to the elected venezuelan government could ask a late. because current political analyst and editor at venezuelan analysis to come believes the u.s. is in trying to some but talks democratic candidates in venezuela the issue with men as well is that not only has the united states continually financed venezuelan opposition and freedom information act request. filed by ever going to show that at least fifty million dollars u.s. financing has caused united states usaid can you imagine if the russian government was financing a political party in the united states the riyadh the public reaction but not only that it goes even farther to the united states when it started to threaten to sanction the opposition presidential candidate last year had recalled gone for daring to defy the u.s. backed opposition going kind of that election on the argument that his kind of thing would confer legitimacy to the government i mean this is you know this

to get their sticky fingers on the the what they could not tolerate is a socialist government under hugo chavez actually using the oil reserves for the benefits of ordinary people i'm a huge advances i remember huge reductions in poverty improve us in housing and health care and of course they are out of kate's illiteracy i think it was long ago as two thousand and five there is a massive crisis in the country right now and indeed i think the madeira governments have made a number of wrong turns i mean i'm not going to defend them where they where they've made mistakes and they clearly have. exceeded the sorts of powers in some respects in terms of the violence which has been meted out against actually just on that why do you think your opposition to major nation intervention in nations like venezuela automatically means that. the media that the politicians say well that means you must be a majority porter well it's absurd i mean look i recognize a huge advances that have been made you know by the government there and they're wondering credible pressure ever since barack obama signed the

hello and welcome to well to part two decades after hugo chavez won his first election his boley very and revolution is screeching to a halt with runaway inflation and unemployment higher than ever and millions of believed to have left in his and wild world powers are now logged over whether the president would do or should go to the bigger question is where should the country move from here to discuss that i'm now joined by rafael ramirez los ally of president chavez and the harsh critic of both president nicolas maduro and the opposition leader. mr ramirez it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time thank you thank you might push in many western media you're referred to as are their former oil czar or.

chavez both failed i think chavez actually was ousted for what was a couple of days forty eight hours at one point at which time the u.s. came out and quickly announced his opposition. as leader country and then had to reverse the decision so john bolton as the national security council visor has a long track record and a long history of interventionism what some people would call australia abraham's work in the seventy's and eighty's non-words as i think hemisphere ism so the idea was to squash marxism in south and southern and central america and to make sure u.s. interests were well looked after so i think people are going to be questioning exactly who is he talking about with that in mind john bolton also said that he wants to see regime change. the u.s. wants to see regime change in venezuela the white house earlier said that all options are still on the table with venezuela so when it comes to external forces intervening here how far do you think washington is prepared to go. well this is the big question is i think at the john bolton's press he was being asked from some corners

gone to welcome to the party 2 decades after hugo chavez won his 1st election his boley very and revolution is screeching to a halt but runaway inflation and unemployment higher than ever and millions are believed to have left. and while the world powers are now locked their president maduna should go to the bigger question is where should the country move from here to discuss that i'm now joined by rafael ramirez close ally of president chavez and the harsh critic of both president nicolas maduro and the opposition leader. mr ramirez it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time thank you think is my question in many western media you're referred to as either former oil czar or hugo chavez says dr had man i wonder how do you personally see yourself now well. i'm hearing you up but i cannot disclose for because. under persecution from the government of venezuela i used to be the oil minister for president. for years. hardly the most important post in the. hour. now i know that you had a major falling out with president maduro in 2017 you accused him of incompetence and your sup

on the welcome to worlds apart decades after hugo chavez won his first election.

in many western media you're referred to as either former oil czar or hugo chavez's right hand man i wonder how do you personally see yourself now. or. the most important post. now i know that you had a major falling out with president maduro in two thousand and seventeen you accused him of incompetence and their supreme power he accused you of corruption but if we try to put those personal grievances to the side what do you make all what's happening in and around venezuela right now. our country faces. in the.

chavez took power in one thousand nine hundred. years will remember the aborted coup in two thousand and two when there was a tape supported by the u.s. to overturn the bill of alien revolution then and they have been in boat opposition in venezuela that is acted continuously as a de facto agent of washington which is never elected its desire to see venezuela return to the fold as a wholly owned subsidiary of u.s. and u.s. so corporations. and it seems almost prophetic there was a u.n. report on venezuela a year ago warned the humanitarian situation there could be used by the us to force regime change would you make of that. was very prescient indeed isn't it because he could see what was coming down the track this thing has been in just the issue for quite a long time mr gray do who's just appeared from nowhere a man who hardly anybody in venezuela i think has ever held of before he certainly was an instance of his interim president of the country about thought by washington this is clearly been a plot that's been underway for qui

chavez in venezuela. on wednesday in a session that was interrupted several times by antiwar activists abrams faced intense questioning in front of the houses foreign affairs committee about his suitability for the role of special envoy. would you support an armed faction within venezuela that engages in war crimes as you did in guatemala el salvador and nicaragua i am not going to respond to that kind of personal attack which is not a question you feel that your past actions in iran contra permanently impair your ability to fairly and transparently deal in the region my question is whether you're aware of any transfers of weapons or defense equipment by the united states government to groups of venezuela i ask this question because you have a record of such actions nine hundred ninety one you pleaded guilty to two counts of withholding information from congress regarding your involvement in the iran court affair i fail to understand why members of this committee or the american people should find any tes

chavez in venezuela then in the one nine hundred eighty s. he was also involved in selling arms to iran and funneling the proceeds to anti communist rebels in the corrupt us it's also alleged to use humanitarian aid planes to disguise weapons shipments to right wing militia groups in south america and we got the thoughts from journalist might explode in his view he says madeira was right to be concerned about these aid shipments now. we have to consider that trumps are who is in charge of his venezuelan policy right now is elliot abrams who pioneered the strategy of using humanitarian aid as a disguise for delivering weapons to u.s. proxy forces first during the. wars and central america the proxy wars during which elliott abrams was overseeing several death squads and their genocidal humanitarian violations the venezuelan see this aid delivery especially in the in the light of abrams history of using aid as a cover for delivering arms to proxy forces as a violation of venezuelan sovereignty as an actual us invasion of venezuela and so in man