Episode 52 - Inside Venezuela's Markets: Propaganda vs. Reality

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🗓️ 19 December 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Abby Martin talks to Venezuelans on the streets of Caracas and investigates the main claim that there's no free press, and that there is no food in the supermarkets. Using hidden cameras, she takes you through local grocery stores and the underground black market currency exchange, the main source of inflation in the country. Abby sits down with economist Pasqualina Curzio to learn more about the nature of the black market and chronic shortages of goods. Knowing that world leaders are calling for foreign intervention, Abby finds out if locals agree. FOLLOW // twitter.com/empirefiles LIKE // facebook.com/theempirefiles

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Empire Files podcast. This is Abby Martin. This is the audio version of each episode of
0:06.2	the Empire Files hosted on Telesaur English. You can watch every episode at the Empirefiles.tv.
0:15.1	While in Venezuela, I had an intense experience at an opposition protest, which received wide coverage in the Western press.
0:22.6	So I wanted to see the demonstrations
0:24.2	that get virtually no coverage,
0:26.4	those by government supporters.
0:28.5	The atmosphere was quite different.
0:45.8	Oligarchs, listen to this always always hugo ralphail chavez frees will be in our hearts he will be in our lives our presence our air i found that a depiction of a widely hated government
0:51.0	was a distortion if western media and human rights groups consider the voices
0:55.3	of anti-government Venezuelans as golden, why are these millions of voices considered to have no value?
1:01.9	The opposition's grievances are well reported. Who is to blame for what's going on?
1:08.4	Wow. The government, only the government.
1:14.7	We want to live.
1:15.6	We want to shop freely, but they have us tied.
1:18.2	Insecurity.
1:19.4	Look, before you walked freely, look at this, it is awful.
1:22.6	Most of all, economics, work, there is no work.
1:26.2	I am a person who works in tourism and look, I do not
1:29.5	know what to do. Tell me, what do I do? I will not live on minimum wage.
1:35.8	I'm a woman, 54 years old, and I've never seen a situation like this. In addition, I've always
1:41.9	felt like there was injustice. When there was an inflation rate of
1:45.2	100% per year in terms of real estate, which was the highest in the market, we felt that the
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