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The Documentary Podcast

Venezuela - A Week In The Life Of A Country In Chaos

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Venezuela has some of the largest oil reserves in the world but incredibly, around four in five Venezuelans live in poverty. The BBC's South America correspondent, Katy Watson, went to cover the unfolding political and economic crisis in Venezuela and found a country divided.

(Photo: Anti-government graffiit. Credit: Katy Watson/BBC)

Transcript

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0:00.0

The protests are much bigger than we've seen in the last few days. The streets up until now during the day being quite quiet there had

0:15.1

been pockets of violence but here in an area which is very opposition heavy

0:20.9

there are far more people out on the street from this far more police just watching and waiting to see what will happen.

0:28.0

We have to defend with something. We use rocks, we use bottles, everything that we can find here, we use to protect us. It's a critical situation. They are shooting us. They are killing people.

0:38.0

We are without food, without medicines.

0:45.0

I'm standing in front of about four or five burnt-out motorcycles.

0:50.0

The protesters are using it to blockade the streets and the police I believe are just

0:55.0

circling around this neighborhood waiting for the next kind of hot point to kick off. They want to show they are powerful, but the only thing they have is fear, is repression,

1:10.1

and it's violence.

1:11.4

And when Woberman has only repression, fear and violence is very weak.

1:18.0

The sounds of Venezuela in 2017.

1:21.0

It's a country that has the largest proven oil reserves in the world, but incredibly

1:26.3

around four and five Venezuelans live in poverty. People queue for bread on a daily basis and struggle

1:32.4

to find medicines when they fall ill.

1:35.0

I went to cover the unfolding political and economic crisis in Venezuela and found a country

1:40.4

divided.

1:41.4

This was my week.

1:44.0

Unfortunately we have an opposition here in Venezuela which has become irrational, violence, aggressive.

1:50.0

The world needs to know what happened in Venezuela.

1:55.0

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Director City.

2:00.0

Landing in Venezuela, I was full of anticipation and some trepidation too.

2:05.4

Venezuela has been facing almost daily protests since April,

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