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This interview was conducted in Simferopol, Crimea, May 2024. Mr. Shirin Ibraim Reshatovich, Chairman of the Commission on Interethnic and Interfaith Relations and Public Diplomacy in the Public Chamber of the Republic of Crimea—is himself Tatar. The West has for years tried to claim Tatars are oppressed in Crimea & didn't support the 2014 referendum to (rejoin) join Russia. Listen to this delightful man to hear the truth on how life improved dramatically for Tatars in Crimea, and for Crimeans as a whole! —My related 2019 article after visiting Crimea then: Return to Russia: Crimeans Tell the Real Story of the 2014 Referendum and Their Lives Since ( https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/10/10/return-to-russia-crimeans-tell-the-real-story-of-the-2014-referendum-and-their-lives-since/ )

Wednesday, August 7, 2024 [ https://rumble.com/v5a1xeb-venezuela-and-the-resistance-fight-against-yankee-imperialism.html] Eva Bartlett, independent journalist who goes to the places she talks about. Based in Russia with extensive, ground-based knowledge in West Asia including Gaza, Syria and Donbass. But Eva has also been to Venezuela which is why she's here today to talk about the similarities the country faces today as well as connections that operation could have in the Middle East. "Fi" Fiorella Isabel: =============== Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/FiorellaIsabelM Fiorella Isabel on Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-5021915 Fiorella In Moscow YT: https://www.youtube.com/@FiorellaInMoscow My Related Links: My Venezuela (2019) playlist: https://rumble.com/playlists/YCmDnKNOVWc https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/31/us-is-manufacturing-a-crisis-in-venezuela-so-that-there-is-chaos-and-needed-intervention/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/observations-from-occupied-palestine-in-gaza/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/syria/syria-my-published-articles-from-and-on-syria-2014-2022/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/the-donbass-my-articles-videos-interviews-from-on-the-donetsk-lugansk-peoples-republics-2019-present/

I spoke with Latin America correspondent for Press TV, Camila Escalante, about what she saw and heard on the ground in Caracas, Venezuela, before, during and after the recent Presidential Election. A well-travelled, longtime correspondent all over Latin America, Camila brings a deep understanding of the history of the country and region, and of the people. With ample experience in Venezuela in years prior, she speaks with first hand knowledge on the positive changes in the country, in spite of the brutal Western sanctions against the Venezuelan people. Follow Camilla at: X: camilapress Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/CamilaPress My Related Links: -My Venezuela (2019) playlist: https://rumble.com/playlists/YCmDnKNOVWc -The US is manufacturing a crisis in Venezuela so that there is chaos and ‘needed’ intervention https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/31/us-is-manufacturing-a-crisis-in-venezuela-so-that-there-is-chaos-and-needed-intervention/

January 2009: Kiffah Lum Towwak, 35, killed by Israeli drone missile strike on her backyard in Jabaliya, just after 11 am. The strike which killed Kiffah came about 5 minutes after the initial strike which killed a family member living in the same house. As the ambulance loaded her body and started to drive away, a young man from the family leaned in to throw a mangled body part, wrapped in cloth, onto the pile of pieces that was Kiffah. Her husband grieves shrilly, anguished. Post here: https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/01/14/immense-grief-updates-from-runs-with-medics/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/observations-from-occupied-palestine-in-gaza/

The building I was in was just bombed. I’d just given an interview on the 10th floor of the building housing numerous TV stations when a series of Israeli strikes hit the building. The journalists I was with say it was 7 shells, from Israeli tanks east of Gaza. No where is safe from Israeli strikes. S. one of the journalists I was with asks me the question every Palestinian is asking: “Why are they bombing us?” And then, “I’m like anyone, I like vodka.” He tells me he’ll show me sometime, in the future. “If I have a future,” he adds with a sad grin… Related post: https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/01/06/bombing-the-news/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/observations-from-occupied-palestine-in-gaza/

January 2009: With Palestinian medics transporting some of the over 5000 Palestinians injured by Israeli bombing and firing during the 23 day Israeli massacre of Gaza. Gaza's Palestinians had no bomb shelters, no air raid sirens, no safe havens, no means of escaping the Strip which was being bombed in its entirety. The residents of Ezbet Abed Rabbo faced some of the worst atrocities at the hands of the occupying Israeli soldiers, including point-blank shooting to kill, denial of water, food and medication, assault, detention in vast mud walled pit, and bombing of homes in which families resided. https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/injured-denied-access-israeli-soldiers-shoot-woman-in-stomach-and-keep-elderly-hostages/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/observations-from-occupied-palestine-in-gaza/

Walking along Omar Mukthar street, a central Gaza City main street, on January 8 2009, while Israeli drones fly overhead. Surveying the damage, but aware that at any moment one of those drones or Israeli warplanes could bomb where I walk. Related post: https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/gaza-walks-shells-of-buildings-rubble-filled-streets/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/observations-from-occupied-palestine-in-gaza/

Death fills the air, the streets in Gaza: updates from Gaza’s north The numbers slaughtered and injured are so high now –521 and 2,700 as of this morning, Gaza time — that sitting next to a dead or dying person is becoming normal. The stain of blood on the ambulance stretcher pools next to my coat, the medic warning me my coat may be dirtied. What does it matter? The stain doesn’t revolt me as it would have, did, one week ago. Death fills the air, the streets in Gaza, and I cannot stress that this is no exaggeration. The Israeli army occupied areas in the north, shelled houses, demolishing them, many injuries, dead, many off-limits to the ambulances. Beit Hanoun is occupied by the Israeli army, which is now controlling the entry points to the northern region, cutting it off. One small, sub-par hospital without an ICU is staggering under the influx of injured from house demolitions, shellings, shootings… Two ambulances serve this region, I don’t have any information on their condition, the amount of petrol they have, or what areas of the Beit Hanoun region are accessible or not. Entering via an ambulance to take an emergency case to Gaza’s Shifa hospital, I see the Beit Hanoun hospital crammed, with a frenzied air, families desperate to get their injured care…those who have been able to get to the hospital. Mohammed Sultan, 19, stands dazed with a gunshot graze to the back of his head. From Salateen, northwestern Gaza, he had to walk 1 km before a car could reach him and take him here. The man we transfer to Shifa has been shot in the face. He is about 35, is a civilian, was in or near his house. His face has exploded, and we move as fast as possible over torn up roads, ambulance jarring as we move and as the medics try to administer delicate care. It’s on everyone’s mind that the army is present here, that our safety is not. Beit Lahia and beyond, in the northwest, are mostly off-limits to ambulances, leaving the wounded and dead where they are. The calls from there for help, for evacuation, have been non-stop and now go ignored.... https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/death-fills-the-air-the-streets-in-gaza-updates-from-gazas-north/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/observations-from-occupied-palestine-in-gaza/

An Israeli warplane bombed the American high school on the night of January 3, 2009. Upon arriving at the bombed school, we searched for survivors or martyrs. In the pitch dark, without adequate lighting and under threat of at any moment being bombed again by the Israeli warplanes, we were unable to find the martyr's body and had to return at first light. The youth, a teen from the area, was the night watchman at the school. His dead body was burned and mutilated by the bombing. Arafa, the heroic medic I accompanied that night was killed later that day, by an Israeli dart (flechette) bomb, fired directly at the ambulance he stood next to, one of Israel's many war crimes in Gaza. https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/israeli-army-kills-palestinian-medic-with-dart-bomb/ Related: https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/03/16/ensuring-maximum-casualties-in-gaza/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/observations-from-occupied-palestine-in-gaza/

After the December 27, 2008, Israeli bombardment of Gaza, nurses in Shifa hospital's ICU describe some of the patients on their deathbeds. * Dr Khaled from Shifa hospital ICU told me today around 10 that the majority of cases in the ICU are critical, with an approx 80% who will not survive. The normally 12-bed ICU was caring for twice as many as normally capable, extra beds and extra rooms made to care for ICU patients. At that time, the 24 beds in the ICU were the 4th shift of critically injured, the former 3 having died from their injuries. There is a critical need for more ICU beds, as well as mechanical ventilators the majority of injuries were “multi-explosive injuries” with a concentration of head injuries (“head trauma”) resulting from the explosions, from shrapnel in the brain. Other injuries included abdominal injuries resulting in internal bleeding, from shrapnel in the abdomen. The majority of head injuries were not expected to survive, and those who do are expected to have brain damage, some full paralysis (quadroplegea). Because of the shortage of spaces and equipment, the ICU has had to turn patients away, others waiting in the reception until a patient dies and his space can be used. among the critically wounded were a number of children and minors: a six year old down’s syndrom with brain trauma an 11 year old with brain trauma, not likely to survive a 13 year old with a head injury (“brain matter out”) a 21 year old, leg amputated, various shrapnel injuries over body and face, loss of hearing in one ear a 21 year old, braindead, “hopeless” case a man in his fifties, neither police nor resistance a man in his forties, on the beach when struck, head trauma (“brain matter out”) a man in his fifties, head trauma a 53 year old, shrapnel in the brain, no surgery possible many other men in their 20s and 30s, head injuries (shrapnel in brain), and abdominal injuries, some policemen. https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2008/12/28/shifa-icu-a-glimpse-of-hospital-critical-injuries/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/observations-from-occupied-palestine-in-gaza/

My footage immediately after first of 100 Israeli bombings throughout the Gaza Strip, just after 11 am, December 27 2008. Related: https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2008/12/28/widespread-attacks-on-gaza-leave-at-least-227-dead-hundreds-seriously-injured/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/observations-from-occupied-palestine-in-gaza/

April 26, 2019 Last night, I gave a talk in Toronto on some of what I'd seen in Venezuela, March-April, sharing photos and clips--with an emphasis of allowing people to hear voices our media generally silences or pretends don't exist. In Q & A, the issue of discrimination and racism in Venezuela was raised. This eloquent Venezuelan musician replied to the question so articulately, and disturbingly, that I asked him to re-address it on camera after the event. Do listen to his words not only on the racism that still exists (not only in Venezuela but in media portrayal of Venezuelans), that in the 80s there actually was a crisis, unlike today, and that the people won't let their revolution end. "In 1999, for the 1st time every in any country in South America, a law was passed to not discriminate against people of colour. People that never had a voice now have one and will never give it up again. You can go to the remotest area in my country and everybody can read. Everybody knows their rights and knows that their voice counts." "In Venezuela, its a racism that's very alive, but hidden under class status. When you come to Canada, you just don't see Venezuelans that look like me, at all. Or even if you go to the States, anywhere you go, you're not gonna see Venezuelans that look like me." ... "What the Canadian public, the American public and the international community are watching is a huge Hollywood show." "I have a challenge for anyone in the opposition to simply answer one question: What would they do different? What is their plan? If they're planning to go back to those great old days (sarcasm), the people are not having it. Two million militias, old people, young people, everybody knows what the United States is doing. My mother is 70, she's about to join the militia!" Related: https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/31/us-is-manufacturing-a-crisis-in-venezuela-so-that-there-is-chaos-and-needed-intervention/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/march-16-demonstration-of-solidarity-with-venezuelan-government-and-against-imperialism/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/president-maduro-the-venezuelan-people-do-not-want-violence-or-foreign-military-intervention/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/04/04/venezuelans-calmly-helped-one-another-during-manufactured-electricity-crisis/

In case that title is too elusive, as I explain in my video, the Univision anchor stated repeated he was 'near', 'close to', 'minutes from' Venezuela's presidential palace. But he was in a wealthy eastern Caracas district, roughly 7 km away when he filmed the clip in question. I went to that district, to film it and show how he lied. Why did he feel the need to repeatedly lie and claim he was 'minutes from' Miraflores? Ramos is just one of many in international media fabricating the notion there is a 'humanitarian crisis' in Venezuela. There is indeed a long and sustained US-led economic war against Venezuela, but Ramos won't address that. Instead, he fabricates his location and perhaps the clip itself. The latter I cannot prove, but the former, yes. This is now my 12th day in Caracas, and I haven't seen the signs of a 'humanitarian crisis'. The media is trying to persuade people of this in order to support yet another immoral US intervention, this time in Venezuela. Related: https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/31/us-is-manufacturing-a-crisis-in-venezuela-so-that-there-is-chaos-and-needed-intervention/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/march-16-demonstration-of-solidarity-with-venezuelan-government-and-against-imperialism/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/president-maduro-the-venezuelan-people-do-not-want-violence-or-foreign-military-intervention/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/04/04/venezuelans-calmly-helped-one-another-during-manufactured-electricity-crisis/

On March 17, Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro, met with the US Peace Council delegation for over an hour, speaking on issues related to the recent power outage, how the Venezuelan people responded, and the US draconian policies against Venezuela. I filmed around 10 minutes of our over hour long meeting. What President Maduro had to say about US policies against, and obsession with, Venezuela is accurate, and reminds me of their same grotesque policies and propaganda against Syria, Libya, Iraq, Cuba... Western corporate media will never allow leaders of the nations the US is targeting to speak freely, because that might allow a Western audience to think for themselves, based on the leader's words and not on corporate media's propaganda. President Maduro on the March 7 power outage: "What they had in mind was on the fifth day to generate violence in the streets and assault the presidential palace. And in the midst of the chaos, they would call upon US troops to enter the country to re-establish the peace. The perfect plan. However, they didn't expect we would respond the way we did. The first response was peace in the country and the consciousness of our people. The Venezuelan People Do Not Want Violence or Foreign military intervention. The Venezuelan people are very proud of their national independence." On US Imperialism: "This is all a result of the extremist political policies of the Trump administration. So far, they have undertaken a failed and extremist policies against Venezuela. We are not a threat to the US. We have the largest certified oil reserves on the earth. And we are currently certifying the largest gold reserve. We have the fourth largest gas reserve on earth. Soon, we're going to certify the largest diamond reserve as well. On top of iron, aluminum, and water reserves. We have our own native political project, whose source of inspiration is Bolivar. And I think that this is the most irritating factor for the extremists currently ruling in the White House. Because they are used to giving orders and being obeyed. We refuse to obey, we will never obey." "This is not about Maduro. This is about a country, a project—an historic project. Whether Maduro is sitting here or not, the project will go on. It is not about Maduro, it is about the people." As one the US Peace Council delegation co-leaders, Ajamu Baraka, wrote: "For the collaborating Western imperialist left, I guess I will now be a "Maduroist" for meeting with him last week at the presidential palace. But understand, it is only among the infantilized consciousness of Westerners that politics gets reduced to personalities. The people of Venezuela are clear that they are defending a process that goes beyond any individual." Related: https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/31/us-is-manufacturing-a-crisis-in-venezuela-so-that-there-is-chaos-and-needed-intervention/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/march-16-demonstration-of-solidarity-with-venezuelan-government-and-against-imperialism/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/president-maduro-the-venezuelan-people-do-not-want-violence-or-foreign-military-intervention/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/04/04/venezuelans-calmly-helped-one-another-during-manufactured-electricity-crisis/

March 2019, Caracas. Paul has been living in Venezuela for 14 years and has intimate knowledge of the country, having lived and worked in various regions from southeast to the west. He has connections with indigenous and civil society groups and has a deep understanding of the economic, social, political and cultural realities of Venezuela. I interviewed him on Venezuela Analaysis, an independent English-language news site which began in 2002 and has provided needed covered of events in Venezuela. Following are some of Paul's recent articles/commentaries on Venezuela: -Venezuela: A Diplomatic Coup? VA’s on-the-ground journalist Paul Dobson explains why Guaido’s attempted coup has had next to no impact within Venezuela. https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/14317 *More here: https://venezuelanalysis.com/search?keyword=Paul+Dobson&keyword_op=AND&sort_by=created https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/31/us-is-manufacturing-a-crisis-in-venezuela-so-that-there-is-chaos-and-needed-intervention/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/march-16-demonstration-of-solidarity-with-venezuelan-government-and-against-imperialism/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/president-maduro-the-venezuelan-people-do-not-want-violence-or-foreign-military-intervention/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/04/04/venezuelans-calmly-helped-one-another-during-manufactured-electricity-crisis/

In Caracas, I spoke with Canary writer, John McEvoy, who spent two weeks living with a colectivo (collective) leader. He speaks of the vilification of colectivos, and how they and Venezuelan people in general came together to help one another during the electricity blackouts. March 2019, Caracas. https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/31/us-is-manufacturing-a-crisis-in-venezuela-so-that-there-is-chaos-and-needed-intervention/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/march-16-demonstration-of-solidarity-with-venezuelan-government-and-against-imperialism/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/president-maduro-the-venezuelan-people-do-not-want-violence-or-foreign-military-intervention/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/04/04/venezuelans-calmly-helped-one-another-during-manufactured-electricity-crisis/

I filmed these scenes on March 10, but until now have been too busy and also lacking good enough internet to upload. My objective in filming is not to say there is no poverty in Venezuela, nor to imply there is no hunger or shortages anywhere. However, when corporate media is flat out saying shelves are empty all over Caracas and the city is in crisis, well this is false. The scenes I'm seeing are much like I saw in 2010. I know there are differences since then and now, of course, but there isn't the pandemonium MSM is attempting to claim is happening here. Also, this is not a wealthy area of Caracas, its perhaps lower middle class. I'll film the wealthy areas where typically opposition live in coming days. Further, in the days since filming this, I have had the opportunity to visit organized communities growing massive amounts of produce, also breeding rabbits (apparently a high source of protein)...and also one of the cities urban garden initiatives. I'll upload more on that when time allows, but for now, day 1, no "crisis", but people were dealing with the effects of the nation wide power outage, one believed most likely due to US acts of sabotage on the electricity grid. Articles related to that belief: http://misionverdad.com/MV-IN-ENGLISH/venezuela-under-attack-7-notes-on-electric-shock-special-report https://consortiumnews.com/2019/03/12/us-regime-change-blueprint-proposed-venezuelan-electricity-blackouts-as-watershed-event/ Related: https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/31/us-is-manufacturing-a-crisis-in-venezuela-so-that-there-is-chaos-and-needed-intervention/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/march-16-demonstration-of-solidarity-with-venezuelan-government-and-against-imperialism/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/president-maduro-the-venezuelan-people-do-not-want-violence-or-foreign-military-intervention/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/04/04/venezuelans-calmly-helped-one-another-during-manufactured-electricity-crisis/

I filmed these scenes on March 15, but until now have been too busy and also lacking good enough internet to upload. My objective in filming is not to say there is no poverty in Venezuela, nor to imply there is no hunger or shortages anywhere. However, when corporate media is flat out saying shelves are empty all over Caracas and the city is in crisis, well this is false. The scenes I'm seeing are much like I saw in 2010. I know there are differences since then and now, of course, but there isn't the pandemonium MSM is attempting to claim is happening here. Also, this is not a wealthy area of Caracas, its perhaps lower middle class. I'll film the wealthy areas where typically opposition live in coming days. Further, in the days since filming this, power has fully returned to Caracas and most of Venezuela, metro is running, things are as they were before the power cuts. I have had the opportunity to visit organized communities growing massive amounts of produce, also breeding rabbits (apparently a high source of protein)...and also one of the cities urban garden initiatives. I'll upload more on that when time allows, but for now, day 1, no "crisis", but people were dealing with the effects of the nation wide power outage, one believed most likely due to US acts of sabotage on the electricity grid. Articles related to that: http://misionverdad.com/MV-IN-ENGLISH/venezuela-under-attack-7-notes-on-electric-shock-special-report https://consortiumnews.com/2019/03/12/us-regime-change-blueprint-proposed-venezuelan-electricity-blackouts-as-watershed-event/ March 2019, Caracas. Related: https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/31/us-is-manufacturing-a-crisis-in-venezuela-so-that-there-is-chaos-and-needed-intervention/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/march-16-demonstration-of-solidarity-with-venezuelan-government-and-against-imperialism/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/president-maduro-the-venezuelan-people-do-not-want-violence-or-foreign-military-intervention/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/04/04/venezuelans-calmly-helped-one-another-during-manufactured-electricity-crisis/

Jaskeherry is the head of a colectivos in Caracas. I asked how his community got through the power outage earlier in March. March 2019, Caracas. Related: https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/31/us-is-manufacturing-a-crisis-in-venezuela-so-that-there-is-chaos-and-needed-intervention/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/march-16-demonstration-of-solidarity-with-venezuelan-government-and-against-imperialism/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/president-maduro-the-venezuelan-people-do-not-want-violence-or-foreign-military-intervention/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/04/04/venezuelans-calmly-helped-one-another-during-manufactured-electricity-crisis/

On March 18, opposition/supporters said they'd march on the National Assembly. A local journalist said their intent was to create & film a provocation while the UN's HR commission people are still here. I only saw two handfuls of people who seemed to be opposition (well dressed, expensive jewellery), not huge numbers that would qualify as a march. In any case, if there was an intent to create a scene of violence, they didn't have the chance. Venezuelan civilians came out in masses to defend the area and keep the peace. Opposition media is calling them "armed colectivos", implying they are paid thugs. These are Venezuelan people, definitely from the poor sectors of society, defending their country. To listen to them speak, their political knowledge, you'd cringe (if you don't already) at the vacuous rhetoric of western newsreaders. March 2019, Caracas. Related: https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/31/us-is-manufacturing-a-crisis-in-venezuela-so-that-there-is-chaos-and-needed-intervention/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/march-16-demonstration-of-solidarity-with-venezuelan-government-and-against-imperialism/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/president-maduro-the-venezuelan-people-do-not-want-violence-or-foreign-military-intervention/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/04/04/venezuelans-calmly-helped-one-another-during-manufactured-electricity-crisis/

During a pro-Venezuela, anti-Imperialist march, I asked Paul Dobson of Venezuelanalysis.com to speak briefly on corporate media/opposition's attack on colectivos. "Colectivo means collective, an expression of the organized community, incl workers, women's, ecological, pensioners..." March 2019, Caracas. Related: https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/31/us-is-manufacturing-a-crisis-in-venezuela-so-that-there-is-chaos-and-needed-intervention/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/march-16-demonstration-of-solidarity-with-venezuelan-government-and-against-imperialism/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/president-maduro-the-venezuelan-people-do-not-want-violence-or-foreign-military-intervention/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/04/04/venezuelans-calmly-helped-one-another-during-manufactured-electricity-crisis/

March 2019, Caracas. Related: https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/31/us-is-manufacturing-a-crisis-in-venezuela-so-that-there-is-chaos-and-needed-intervention/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/march-16-demonstration-of-solidarity-with-venezuelan-government-and-against-imperialism/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/president-maduro-the-venezuelan-people-do-not-want-violence-or-foreign-military-intervention/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/04/04/venezuelans-calmly-helped-one-another-during-manufactured-electricity-crisis/

March 2019, Caracas. Related: https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/31/us-is-manufacturing-a-crisis-in-venezuela-so-that-there-is-chaos-and-needed-intervention/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/march-16-demonstration-of-solidarity-with-venezuelan-government-and-against-imperialism/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/president-maduro-the-venezuelan-people-do-not-want-violence-or-foreign-military-intervention/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/04/04/venezuelans-calmly-helped-one-another-during-manufactured-electricity-crisis/

March 2019, Caracas. Related: https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/31/us-is-manufacturing-a-crisis-in-venezuela-so-that-there-is-chaos-and-needed-intervention/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/march-16-demonstration-of-solidarity-with-venezuelan-government-and-against-imperialism/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/president-maduro-the-venezuelan-people-do-not-want-violence-or-foreign-military-intervention/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/04/04/venezuelans-calmly-helped-one-another-during-manufactured-electricity-crisis/

March 31 (2019), I spent over an hour with a Venezuelan journalist, Ricardo González, talking with people who had come to Waraira Repano mountainside to collect clean spring water. In spite of the media hype that Venezuela is in a state of crisis, you can see people calmly waiting for their opportunity to fill up water jugs, kids wading in the water, people joking, also people frustrated as to be expected under such exhausting circumstances. You can also hear a variety of opinions here. It's interesting that those who spoke in a pro-government stance seem to be politically aware of US machinations against Venezuela, which is something I've encountered among many of the poorest I've been meeting in my last few weeks here, moving around Caracas' poorest areas. Related: https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/31/us-is-manufacturing-a-crisis-in-venezuela-so-that-there-is-chaos-and-needed-intervention/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/march-16-demonstration-of-solidarity-with-venezuelan-government-and-against-imperialism/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/president-maduro-the-venezuelan-people-do-not-want-violence-or-foreign-military-intervention/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/04/04/venezuelans-calmly-helped-one-another-during-manufactured-electricity-crisis/