Aiding chaos
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🗓️ 25 February 2019
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Just over a month ago, a guy named Juan GuaidĂł, the 35-year-old head of Venezuela's National |
| 0:06.8 | Assembly, declared himself the country's acting president. |
| 0:09.6 | As you see, formally, the competition has been held. |
| 0:15.0 | The National Executive Committee has been held. |
| 0:24.3 | Since then, the country's had two presidents. |
| 0:26.3 | GuaidĂł, plus still sitting Nicolas Maduro. |
| 0:29.3 | And it looks like two presidents is even worse than one. |
| 0:32.6 | This economic crisis is a humanitarian crisis. |
| 0:35.9 | Hyperinflation has surpassed 1 million percent and expected to go up even further this year. |
| 0:41.9 | Infant mortality is soaring at a faster rate than in Syria. |
| 0:46.2 | Listen, there's nothing left in this country. |
| 0:50.9 | Everyone here knows it. |
| 0:52.4 | There's no money, no food. |
| 0:54.0 | Here we're all starving to death. |
| 0:55.6 | Over the weekend, the tension between GuaidĂł and Maduro threatened to reach a boiling point |
| 1:00.1 | at the Venezuelan border with Cucuta Colombia. |
| 1:03.4 | On the Colombian side, tons of humanitarian aid waiting to be delivered to Venezuelans. |
| 1:08.8 | On the Venezuelan side, security forces loyal to Maduro blocking all of it. |
| 1:15.4 | Emiliana Duarte is a freelance journalist based in Caracas. |
| 1:19.0 | She arrived at the border on Friday, along with a whole lot of protesters. |
| 1:23.3 | There were groups of volunteers. |
| 1:24.8 | More than 600,000 volunteers signed up on a website that was calling for people to help |
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