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have a look behind me you can see boots with lasers tied tossed over electric wires it means that this district is under the protection of a gang that manages the area you can't just come here really when we arrived we were asked to stay in the car our attendant went to talk to particular people only after this were we greeted and allowed [Music] today i will show you how people live in a country where you should only walk the street holding things you are ready to give away to folks with guns who will surely find you sooner rather than later today we will visit the most terrifying districts where 30 people shot per day is kind of normal most of the crimes happen in these districts robbery murders kidnapping we will also pay a visit to the local upper east side huge gulf fields and they are not empty unlike shelves in the shops we will find out why a portion of fries in mcdonald's costs 130 dollars when you eat these fries you're getting from time to time this stuff which is unchewable tastes kind of like wood we will also visit the venezuelan carnival [Music] venezuela is an amazing country because a full tank of gas costs around 8 cents whereas toilet paper is 8.42 venezuela is an amazing country because it has one of the richest oil reserves in the world yet the income level per capita hardly climbs over ten dollars by the way i was really lucky with the drone shooting because now in venezuela you can really go to jail if you're caught flying one recently there was an assassination attempt on maduro a drone flew as close to him as possible and then exploded since then anyone with the drone has been arrested that's why i'm sincerely grateful to our cameraman by the way people at the end of the video i will run a contest with prizes that i've personally brought from south america a collectible bottle of rum one boulevard that is super hard to find now and i will say why my name is leodov and you know me from the people channel now i will show how people live in the most unusual places on the planet subscribe and like the channel right now this is our program how people live for the second year in a row analytics company gallup has been listing venezuela amongst the most dangerous countries in the world the number of murders per hundred thousand citizens is 81.4 yes if someone stops you and demands money or something else just silently raise your hands and give him all you have i heard it's better not to look them in the eyes because the number one rule is if there's too much hassle and it's easier to shoot you he will simply shoot you these cases are hardly ever cracked it's actually getting darker in the street now and i'm walking with a phone in my pocket no match to holding camera on the head level like who would even notice you probably shouldn't do that on my way from the airport i was told that recently a couple of days before my arrival a russian was attacked he was just walking to the shop not suspecting any threat he tried to resist and was eventually hit in the forehead with a butt of a gun as a result brain concussion and all the money he had was stolen another story happened to a delegation going by car they were stopped at the traffic light and while the criminals were trying to take off the wedding ring apparently gold they broke the man's finger the main type of transport in the venezuelan barriers are motorbikes small houses in the street are built as close as possible traditionally most of the crimes happen exactly in these districts robbery murders [Music] kidnappers the situation is so drastic that a couple of years ago venezuela military were ordered not to drive in the night time because the robbers would hunt them to get a free load of kalashnikovs the same order instructed the military not to use mobile phones when standing at traffic lights during the daytime actually traffic robbery is typical not only for venezuela but for all of latin america especially for brazil tourists usually go to the local favelas with attendance and for cash for example in the patare district 30 killed over the weekend is around normal [Music] this is how a typical shooting in a venezuelan favela looks one group is on the roof a guy falls after a gunshot another one is hiding behind the corner of a house for you to see how habitual such a mess is for the locals have a look at the guy in shorts first he runs around with a gun then he gets tired comes over to his house has a relaxed chat with his wife then simply takes the plate to eat some porridge and apparently waits for the police most of the killings in the barrio result from the fights amongst local gangs so the police don't even bother i heard you can rent a revolver here for 60 dollars per day but judging by the situation i don't really trust these numbers i think it's much cheaper other districts are pretty peaceful in the daytime the centre of caracas doesn't look like a district in the world's most dangerous city at all though statistically caracas does top the list a couple of kiosks with ice cream that people live in to put it mildly simpler conditions look how i live i have a cable tv here we don't have electricity now but we're waiting for it to be switched on really there's a tv under a shelf with watermelons plus a couple of suitcases on the counter this is my kitchen here i cook of it mainly something fun he washes in this barrel but there is no water now as well as electricity so there is a candle on a shelf most probably from the church showering here is actually complicated in 2009 hugo chavez ex-president of venezuela forbade people from showering for more than three minutes there are people who need to wait for the water to heat up why what fall so they switch on water and let it run drinking water every minute of it is a criminal act one minute for soap one for shampoo one to finish up i counted three minutes and i don't stink until now you can't always get hot water and not everywhere and now five seconds for your friends to guess how much this man earns per month three dollars 30 130 or 300 you know i travel a lot and i visit many places which are not supposed to be for tourists and this is why sometimes i live in the conditions like this which are more or less the same to the guy that you just saw and sometimes i don't even have like three minutes like mr chavez for the shower and in this case the only way for me not to stink and to be clean and to be ready for anything in my trips is manscaped manscape created the world's first all-in-one manscaping kit that makes manscaping safe and easy to be honest i'm excited to be one of the first to receive the low mower water resistant body trimmer the only trimmer on the market made with advanced skin safe technology which reduces sneaks and cuts from landscaping accidents it's got a powerful 7000 rpm motor with quite strong technology premium 90 minute battery with rapid charging dock powered by usb cordless and water resistant which makes 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biggest american chains for example wendy's i personally love burgers there better than in mackie d's or burger king shame wendy is closed in moscow there's also pizza hut and i'm not only talking about the capital for example here's a burger king in san cristobal a town with a population of hundred thousand people is on the border with colombia this is this yep there is literally no one here i really don't get how come this burger king operates at all one burger here costs around seven dollars so you can buy one and a half burger for a monthly pay there is not a single soul here and what's curious the kitchen doesn't work either it works somehow partially i mean i come and they promise that they will make me a burger at the same time they don't have any intermediate products for burgers like there are no buns no potatoes there's no salad for sale there he is the only person i saw in burger king except for us for three days that we've been staying in a hotel nearby and guess what he's eating what he brought with him in a container it appeared to be a local employee [Music] what's funny is they've actually built the ship for queuing they found it somewhere placed in order it's not that simple here in venezuela they spent money so please line up everyone a lunch for three people cost us around forty dollars thirteen dollars per person very expensive fast food in venezuela is generally very expensive for example my dinner at mcdonald's yes in order to stay chubby i eat dinner at mcdonald's always honest with you guys a combo with burger that looks like a classic big mac the original big mac was withdrawn from sales because it's impossible to produce it the central bun that separates two big mac meat patties this dinner costs 24 000 by three equals eight eight dollars let's see what kind of big mac that is um well you know it's okay i thought it could be a lot worse especially taking into account what i've been eating before in this wonderful country not bad at all very similar to a big man a big mac costs 14 000 bolivars if you buy it separately a bit more than three dollars venezuelan big man costs two times more than in russia as for the fries it's an interesting thing and it's really different why because it's not potatoes the thing is potatoes in venezuela are extremely expensive almost two dollars for a kilo dollar so the so-called fried potatoes are made of a root plant called yucca the taste is kind of similar of course you send something different but generally it's similar venezuelan mcdonald's once calculated that if they used real potatoes then one portion would cost 133 u.s it is generally impossible to understand the prices in venezuela for example in the lobby of our hotel one shot of whiskey costs 58 one shot not a bottle no surprise alcohol in the bars is protected even from staff by measuring tapes so that they don't over pour it or pour it off for resale it is more expensive to eat at the food court here than in a restaurant for example a venue attended by all the embassy employees it looks very expensive a piece of meat is around ten dollars at the entrance you were greeted by a bottle of vodka from roberto cavalli for a crazy 30 bucks three months salary there's also a sign asking to take your gun out before entering the restaurant before 2012 guns were sold here like mangoes literally on every street corner new laws allow only the sale of guns to military police or employees of the security services but since the adoption of the law the number of guns amongst the civil population has skyrocketed from three to almost six million most of the weapons of course end up in the arms of criminals venezuelan mafia clans network today looks as follows there are five types of gangs the first one is colectivos the guys on motorbikes they usually control the districts that are dangerous for ordinary policemen politically they are supporting the ruling regime the second type of gangs are the so-called pranays pranay is a slang word for a leader managing the gang from behind the bars they collect common money by robbing people on the streets as well as in the gold mining areas people there earn relatively well compared to the rest of the country the third gangs are the so-called las magabandus this is the most qualified gang they do not only do robbery but also securities fraud the fighters by the way have access to military weapons fourth type of gangs are paramilitaries half military organizations that operate at the border with colombia especially involved in smuggling the fifth gang are ex-members of the national liberation army they fight in the woods with tnt and rifles for the ideas of marx lemon and bolivar [Music] venezuelan favelas are called barrier which means district in spanish but the point is that these are the poorest areas literally slums they grew on the cheapest land in caracas hills and uplands till today only the poorest live here these are the areas where monthly salary barely reaches ten dollars so financially all is down that's how the locals meet up a shabby box with small gates where guys are playing football [Music] foreign [Music] basically barrio is a town with half a million people squeezed into the area of two or three districts of a typical russian city the higher you climb the narrower the streets are in some places paths turn into stairs the space for only a couple of people barrios started to form already in the first half of the 20th century after the fall of food prices from 1939 until today agriculture remains a financially unprofitable activity so the former farmers have nothing to do but to relocate closer to the city to get any job naturally there's never been any issue with permission to build huts one on top of another but nobody really asked people just look at the bricks and did the job that's how it looks inside no wallpaper stone walls painted at best cloth curtains instead of doors the rooms are tiny so there is space only for a bed basically wardrobes and dressers are not popular around here people just store things in plastic bags no heating thank god in venezuela the temperature rises up to 122 fahrenheit even in february holes in the walls don't seem to bother anyone either the roof is simply a steel sheet most importantly it must protect from rain and hold in place the wind here is really strong this woman's name is luisa anna gonzalia she is a dance teacher and a nail technician she earns 50 000 boulevards or 14 per month she received a flat in a new house closer to the city center under the resettlement program the hut is too small for three kids she still visits barrio often and is proud to have water and gas in the kitchen because when her father was building the house none of this was available we've built this house slowly brick by brick i wasn't born yet back then and now i'm already pushing 35. each barrio has its own beholder who reports that the seniors in his gang not to the police these laws are learnt here from childhood the easiest and maybe the only way to become rich in the barrier is to become a criminal folks don't really see any upward mobility nor chances to get legal income check this interview with one of the gang leaders well we do a little bit of everything drugs kidnapping stealing cars killing for money like hitting you know mostly drugs do you bother about the police no i have good contacts in my case life is better now than in the past but i reckon people of the city are having a hard time last year was the worst year in the history of venezuela i don't know why maybe it's the economy i've already mentioned that venezuela is one of the richest countries when it comes to oil and now three seconds for you to guess which plates venezuela holds in the top 10 list of countries with the biggest oil reserves is it the 10th the 7th the 5th or the 1st according to the world factbook by cia venezuela has the biggest oil reserves in the world there's more golden black liquid here than in saudi arabia that look like this also more than in russia but we can refrain from pictures here so what happened only 20 years ago the situation in venezuela was a lot better in 1999 maybe the most charismatic leader of the last century came to power hugo chavez his speeches were flamboyant and extravagant once he was holding the floor for 11 hours in a row imagine that at the same time chavez hated america and shook hands with everyone against the usa chavez was once pissed that they shared the same time zone with new york he literally said that venezuela had to refuse the time imposed by the imperial regime and turned venezuela's clocks back 30 minutes [Music] insane another time while giving a speech in the u.n he commented on george w bush who took the floor a day before he was in this very spot only yesterday it still smells like sulfur the turning point for the chavez government was in 2001 when oil prices started to grow he nationalized the industrial facilities so billions of dollars from oil sales started to flow to the country's budget instead of the us he issued food subsidies improved education and started to build the health care system which in turn led to a sharp drop of the poverty rate by more than a half these programs first really helped the poor strata but at the same time made people directly dependent on the oil prices it was clear that the programs couldn't go on if the prices were to fall it happened already after the death of chavez oil prices around the globe dropped almost two times in six months many countries entered the crisis and the government of venezuela couldn't do anything to fix the situation consequently the government couldn't cover the food subsidies for all of the poor who by that time composed 82 percent of the population with the broader store is it true that there's a limit in shops on how much one person can buy not only on the quantity of goods but also on the days when you can buy them when you come to the shop they check the final number of your id for example on monday one can buy food only if the last number is one or two tuesday is for those who have three or four and so on it happened to me several times i came to buy something and they wouldn't sell it to me because my id number ends with an a my day is friday so if you come on tuesday you can't buy anything only one day per week right right only one day per week people start to queue since 5am so many have to ask for leaves at work the government of several regions even legally forbid people from standing in the lines because it's not safe gives an impression of the city with endless lines people are cueing almost everyone from the mobile stores where people wait for half an hour an hour to top up their phone you can't do it on the internet or any other way the longest food line was filmed by the ap agency in january 2015 endless zigzags the typical queue is a bit shorter in order to get this shattered counter wrapped with duct tape yes nobody cares about replacing the glass people have to stand for hours even if i can't come on friday and i can't buy five kilos of food the rule says two kilos that's what i get what kind of products are you talking about namely i mean products under the government control the prices are controlled by the government it's rice pasta grits corn flour coffee sugar the main food products as i understand the prices are also limited yes that's why you can't buy it anyway speculators buy the products and resell them there behind the corner but it's 10 times more expensive a kilo of sugar costs 1.2 dollars for comparison a russian grocery store a kilo of sugar costs three times less pasta costs the same one dollar but you have to bring a bag to buy it so a kilo of sugar is 1.20 in russia it's 50 cents we flour costs one dollar in russia from 0.5 rubles and so on is it true that people are paying with food now for example for car park yes it's true yes prices have risen sharply can we talk about the deficit products in venezuela answer for yourself write me a comment meanwhile i will show you this situation the way it is here is a real empty shop with shabby shelves rotten fridge with empty bottles people still collect bottles here and deposit them the only food sold in the shop are green bananas at an unbelievable price of more than two dollars per kilo it's 20 percent of the salary imagine if a kilo of bananas in new york cost 850 dollars 10 minutes from here there is a big supermarket with security at the entrance here the shelves are stocked curious fact there is no sprite in venezuela it's called genato here there's no fanta it's a local hit coca-cola is sold but the word itself means basically any sweet sparkling beverage the word is denominative actually since nobody really cares about the copyright violations there is a lot of fake pepsi and coca-cola these beverages are not the same and taste horrible as for the real coke a two-liter bottle extremely expensive 2.70 25 of local salad honestly i thought the prices in russia are the fastest growing but it appears that's not really the case it's not that i'm so happy about comparison with venezuela but in 2018 prices here rose by 6 000 in a year at some point the government tried to follow the prices in 2012 there was formed an equitable price committee that was supposed to oversee the evil capitalist businessman and prevent unfair rip-off of the population maduro once got pissed that a dish washing machine cost eight thousand dollars so we sent the military to the shop who set the price 10 times lower people rushed to buy out the whole stock while such big players as general motors toyota and ford left the market but automobile and oil tycoons are next to nothing in venezuela compared to those who drum roll produce toilet paper no jokes really it is a pure luxury only affordable by the very rich one roll of toilet paper costs 21 000 if we divide that by three we will get seven dollars per such role for one month salary you can buy one such role 70 from the salary in new york this role would have cost 3 000 there is a meme in venezuela's social networks recently it also appears in ours the venezuelan military were awarded with toilet paper now i understand that it's not funny and it's actually true paper deficit in the country reached such a scale that the government extended all passport terms by two years because they simply didn't have enough paper or ink to print new ones in september 2013 the bbc reported that the national guard took by force a private paper cellulose factory to avoid the total deficit people save on paper even when it comes to napkins show the napkins it's like they cut a newspaper what is it even it's like the one used to print newspapers they just cut it you can't really use it you know i think even back in the ussr the paper we had was better adapted and to interact with skin this one is all glossy it doesn't soak anything up bit of a mockery eventually it got to the point where a rectangular piece of paper to print banknotes was more expensive than the banknote value it simply became unprofitable to print money especially taking into account the sky-high levels of inflation for example last year the inflation rate reached 1300 000 so the money was now easier to waive rather than to count this wad of cash was paid in summer 2018 for a whole chicken a bit less for a kilo of carrots that's a bunch to buy our favorite toiletries the government implemented currency redenomination and cut five zeros so a million bolivars turned into ten so today fewer banknotes are printed plus people started using debit cards still visa or mastercard are not accepted anywhere you'll hardly find a single place accepting cards out of the capital we had a day at the border when we couldn't eat at all because we ran out of local money and nobody accepted neither dollars in cash nor cards since then any shop accepting cards was a little bit of heaven for me if you pay by card you'll be asked to enter the number of your internal id at first we try to explain that we're foreigners and we don't have internal ids but eventually started to enter random seven digit numbers it's a lot easier before you leave the shop a special man will check your bag to make sure you've paid for all you have then he'll stamp your bill by the way paper bills are a sign of a rich shop there is a huge supermarket and not even haven't seen such even in some of our cities the system is usual you take fruit for example mango put it into a bag and then weigh it on a scale that looks like this naturally there are no stickers indicating weight one such paper sticker will be more expensive than all the mangoes i've picked as for meat you can buy it on the market here are some funny folks carrying half a cow there are no trolleys so they have to run around with 50 kilo carcasses on a shoulder in this section you can buy chicken rooster and attention pigeons sacrifice cults are very popular in venezuela and pigeons are used exactly for this purpose today the poor not only eat pigeons but even hunt the street animals here is a person carving most probably a cat [Music] at the same time you can't say that there is no meat in the shops please even a small shop has a fridge with a huge bulk of ham but the prices are crazy 37 bucks for a piece who could possibly buy it earning 10 dollars per month also every shop cafe and restaurant here has its own dollar rates set by the owner having dollars is complicated and if you arrive with only a card and without cash you are [ __ ] for lack of a better word you can withdraw only 1500 bolivars per day or 50 cents plus you have to survive in a line like this the thing is there is no such thing in venezuela as dollar rate there is an official rate the government at one point decided that one dollar must be equal to 10 bolivars but this rate is only available for those in the government officially to import medicine and food common people can't exchange dollars at all since 2013. since 2003 one has to obtain a permission from the government to exchange currency and only if the purpose is for travelling or study you have to gather a set of documents a return ticket confirmation of the purpose of stay this set is gathered following very strict rules up to the choice of boulder color you need to also have a credit card which here will take you about 3 years to obtain the card also has to be issued not less than six months before application a jury gathers and decides if you can exchange bolivars to dollars or not naturally these vouchers were resold which in turn spawned fraud and corruption there is a dollar black market that shows the real cost of bolivar it is hundreds of times less than the ones set by the government authenticity of dollar bank notes is strictly supervised for example if you pay cash when checking into a hotel your bank notes will be copied and you will be asked to sign the copy looks really funny if you give them fake money they will find you an exact retribution yeah sure dollar rate on the black market is obviously not coming from the central bank it's a separate world i don't understand what these people are thinking about the rate comes from the instagram accounts here is one of the most popular ones the rape fluctuates all the time and drastically [Music] which is now you finally understand why the bolivar dollar rate is such a mess and now the promised contest we don't have any super prizes beamers or mercs but at least all is fair this is what i brought from this amazing country by the way i was supposed to bring a box of fruit from venezuela papaya mango stuff like that it's been around two or three months already aeroflot it's not that i dreamed to share these fruits with you i'm just curious how it will look like after three months plus 40. back to business the first place prize is a collection bottle of rum in a beautiful tissue bag by the way it's that rum that was carefully supervised with help of a measuring tape the second prize is a one bolivar coin it's a really unique prize it's basically one ten thousandth of a dollar you can hardly find one today even in venezuela i've mentioned they're using cards now at all so the third place prize is this bracelet in venezuelan colors with as for the task people the task is to guess as precisely as possible the rate of bolivar to dollar exactly in two weeks we will take the figures from the real instagram page here it is namely from the top stock the air tm we will take the figures posted at 2pm venezuela time pay attention to the name of this instagram page because there are fake accounts the one we need is spelled as one word and the page has a million subscribers so don't confuse them and subscribe to this channel right now to stay updated on future videos and of course on the contest results moving on there is a place in caracas called basically the upper east side rich area there is an area with a large number of extremely expensive houses we were just driving by and every house has a huge fence just like in russia here we also find huge really massive golf courses and see they are not empty unlike shelves in the shops you know the problem is that there's no middle class there are many poor people here i can say that there aren't too many these people are stinking corruption in venezuela is unbelievable in order to get a passport a place in a kindergarten and so on you have to know someone who knows someone who's friends with someone that's the price list my bloomberg colleagues got on whatsapp five hundred dollars to get a passport in two days four hundred bucks for a chilean visa from five to seven thousand to delete a criminal record a hundred for a stamp providing college diplomas corruption erodes even the most important parts of the system built by chavez people line up to get a food package from the government i don't know it depends these packages cost 10 20 30 times cheaper than the shops you mean cheaper than the speculator's price yes yes for example last time the price of a package with milk butter pasta grits sugar and coffee was around three or 3500 bolivars one dollar yeah yes the problem is these free food packages reach fewer and fewer people each year that's why communist venezuelans have long been using the capitalist system to make money generally despite the anti-american course of the government people are quite loyal towards the us the daughter of chavez himself happily took selfies with justin bieber here's a guy on the street with a meat grinder he will grind you as much coffee as you need street vendors sell what they can get not what's in demand here's a man with a thermos who sells hot tea another one sells cigarettes 200 bolivars each he sits here for hours and even at lunch time some guys like to chill play chess and drink tea the perfect job is a taxi driver there is an army of them here you can both chill between the rides and make some cash [Music] here we are in a venezuelan taxi next to me is the driver who looks like he's about 70. he has a fantastic mirror i'm not 100 sure what he's talking about all venezuelan taxis are equipped with cameras look there really is a camera most probably it doesn't work it monitors the cabin doesn't monitor [ __ ] and registers the fare of the driver all money is siphoned off there is a radio here and the taxi meter that doesn't work for some reason really why would it the point is that maduro the acting president is trying to win more votes among taxi drivers he started to give cars a discount price so the drivers could work but under the condition that the fare would be socialistically small they didn't quite observe that but generally somehow it works if you have a pickup truck but still want to work as a taxi driver you're welcome here are six people packed into the back of a pickup standard practice here's a guy riding in an office chair our taxi driver for example got a flat tire but he doesn't think about going for a service is finishing the ride there are expensive cars in the city they are kept behind tall fences with barbed wire most of the cars in the streets are old shabby rattle traps i saw two cars with a muffler literally dragging on the ground behind and the drivers just kept on going doesn't look like it suddenly fell off it's just normal to drive that way anyone who can get any car is a taxi driver people torment their cars until they fall apart [Music] look we're at a gas station gas costs six bolivars per liter full tank around the museum cheap petrol is kind of a socialist achievement since oil is national so if you forgot to take your wallet you can just come and ask to fill the tank for free most probably you won't be denied oh and on the one hand it's wonderful on the other despite enormous amounts of oil in the country its production is rapidly going down because it requires technology financing and so on locals don't usually allow taxi rides so they use buses it's also almost free bus ticket cost 100 we paid 100 didn't we no matter where you go right so you pay 100 bolivars and go anywhere you need no not to another country it's 1 13 of a dollar around 3 cents that's how the bus looks there's no air conditioning of course the seats are fine quite comfortable the door is always open because people are constantly jumping right to the bus so it sometimes doesn't even stop just slows down they jump on and the bus moves up today the streets of caracas are packed only in case of protests or during the carnival [Music] venezuelan carnival is similar to our pancake week and the beginning of great lent children and some adults dress up paint faces and go for a walk if we turn a blind eye to the public disorder the carnival ended with this year it's generally safe in the city at this time criminally speaking [Music] carnival is classic for latin america but i should say that the venezuelan one is very different from jesus someone just threw confetti right into my mouth it's probably from the ground see all the floor is covered with these confetti well not much you can do brewing confetti is a venezuelan tradition only there usually isn't money to buy new bags that's how it's done and then they kick the confetti around again it's made of some really hard cardboard usually you're just walking the street someone jumps up pats you on the back and throws a whole bunch of those things right into your face when you turn around well those who throw it have fun yeah but honestly it's not so pleasant still the atmosphere is generally very good [Music] actually till 2013 venezuela hosted lots of tourists and before that many people were dreaming to get here and not only from latin america but also from the us things in venezuela were so good that at one point they became the biggest consumers of whiskey in the world and in the second half of the 70s the country was the richest on the continent due to the income from oil sales [Music] that's how a free city beach looks like now it's a beach in caracas the saddest part is the infrastructure here is basically absent the shore itself is quite clean apparently because the waters somehow managed to wash away all this stuff that's the only infrastructure you'll find here there are the remains of canopies there's one remaining there well and before people could lie and relax in the shade there are no changing rooms so people change in the bushes i'll turn now so you can see how people change they just go to the side and do their thing that's the whole beach infrastructure honestly instead of coming here for a holiday i'd rather go to samara there's a good beach there i'm from samara so please come it's a great city at the same time venezuela has fancy resorts especially on the islands that look luxurious like the maldives but the prices are so high that these resorts are affordable only to the guys from the gulf fields common people just can't afford it they most likely have never even heard that such places exist [Music] all this is extremely sad because venezuela has an unbelievable potential for tourism the world's highest waterfall for example is right here if you thought that it's niagara falls which we'll cover soon in another video so please subscribe now then you're wrong angel falls is one kilometer high water is sprayed out in tiny bits that form fog i will leave a link in the description where the waterfall is shot in 360 8k format highly recommended oh the waterfall is in deep jungle and you can only reach it by boat or by plane there isn't a single tree here that hasn't been struck by one of the frequent lightning storms another breath taking place is roraima it looks like a shot from a sci-fi movie it's also known as the tabletop mountain of te pais it is part of a big plateau that formed 200 million years ago when america and africa were one continent rarima was inaccessible for people for many years only the bravest from the indian tribes sneaked from time to time to what they believed was the sacred terrain there is a legend about a local loch ness monster it's called cavarosaurus witnesses often describe a cabraosaurus as a huge snake with a prolonged body five to thirty meters long with the head of a horse or a camel that's how the remains of a karborosaurus look though later it was discovered that it was a shark which used to be so you sit peacefully and suddenly the electricity is off in the next episode i will show you how the most dangerous country lives in complete darkness we're actively told to sit in the car like it's dangerous what happens on the streets at night when the city centre is empty it's the first time that electricity was shut down in the whole country can you imagine what it is to switch off electricity for example in the whole of russia how many days can you survive if there's no water or electricity in a flat all water pumps are also electric we could hear gunshots all night long god knows what kind of gunfight it was what happens at the venezuelan border how families cross the forward by foot while others protest against the government and the police let's go back i think it's really dangerous they burn that truck that's still on the bridge how does it feel like to fly from a power down airport it's like a sauna blood sweat and tears there will be a protest or a breakthrough because people have already been queueing for hours and by looking at this line they'll be standing here for another 20. this is our new format please subscribe to my channel press like take part in the contest here you will see how people live [Music] you

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Id: 2n7mK3dYOLw

Length: 42min 27sec (2547 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 31 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/Joji_Goji]

What a shitshow

[u/NuclearD]

The CIA shapes nations and hemispheres with ease. This used to be Colombia and now Colombia is cool.

[u/DarthPeaceOut]

I was there in 2007. A beautiful country with fantastic nature (jungle, waterfalls, beaches and tropical islands) and mostly really nice people.

But it has just been completely mismanaged and run into the ground by an incompetent government, that has no business managing anything more complex than a lemonade stand. I really hope for the best for the Venezuelans, but it really looks dire to say the least...

[u/bmaster78]

Sequel documentary by the same filmmaker at the Venezuela-Colombia border:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Documentaries/comments/iumhy2/venezuela_colombia_the_most_dangerous_border_how/

[u/Qxc4]

Yikes.

[u/z3rofucksgiven]

Amazing doc

[u/vonmovie]

How much longer can this country be around? It’s completely fucked