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i'm george galloway

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thank you for joining me on live stream

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to talk about venezuela

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the tragedy and the farce let's start

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with the tragedy as president nicolas

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maduro

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said today in his appeal to the american

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people

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the united states government a

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collection

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increasingly of lawless gangsters and

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convicted

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criminals are threatening venezuela

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with a new vietnam but

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perhaps this generation of americans

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needs to remember

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what happened in the original vietnam

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58 000 american soldiers

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came home in boxes hundreds of thousands

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of them

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came home maimed and wounded both

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physically

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and psychologically many never

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recovering

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from the trauma that they participated

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in

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there the united states was defeated

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in the vietnam war and would be defeated

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again in a venezuelan war

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the reality is this

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that venezuela will

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resist and so will millions

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of its latin american friends any

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american intervention in venezuela

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whether that comes in the form of

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mercenaries

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coming across the border from colombia

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or from brazil

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or whether it comes from a fully fledged

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american

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invasion landing on the beaches

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of venezuela the people will resist

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there are seven million eight million

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nine million

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chavez supporters in venezuela millions

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of them

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are armed does anybody imagine

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that they're just going to disappear at

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the first

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whiff of american grapeshot

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or do you think that in resisting

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venezuela will quickly become an inferno

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in which blood and misery

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will proliferate that's what donald

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trump

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and john bolton and eliot abrahams the

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convicted

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criminal now in charge of the

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venezuela file a convicted

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criminal a man who was deeply involved

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with the cutting of throats

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of church people of teachers of medical

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workers

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all over central america and who was

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convicted as a criminal he wouldn't even

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be allowed

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into the united states if he were not

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already a u.s citizen

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the gangsters that are gathered

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on the potomac are threatening to open

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the gates of hell not just

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in venezuela but throughout latin

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america and even inside america

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itself so think carefully mothers

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of america are you ready for your son

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to die for john bolton for eliot

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abraham's for donald j trump

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think carefully the tragedy

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is unfolding and has been for some years

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the economic warfare naked

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economic warfare in the form of

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sanctions

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embargo and quarantine has already

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caused

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massive and widespread misery for the

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ordinary

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people of venezuela and when these

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criminals cry their crocodile tears

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about suffering poverty hunger in

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just remind yourself it was them the

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crocodiles

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who caused it it's them who have brought

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the venezuelan economy to its knees

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through economic warfare

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through sanctions and through the

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deliberate

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suppression of the oil price

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venezuela is an oil dependent economy

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and the reason why the united states has

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strong-armed

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saudi arabia and other gulf producers

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to up and up and up production levels

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is to depress the price so that the

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depressed

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for venezuela for russia for

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iran as well as boosting the shale

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oil industry in the united states

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itself now the reality is

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this the oil price went up today

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it's a no-lose situation for trump

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and the oil industry that backs him

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if they can get their hands on

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venezuela's

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oil then as john bolton has already

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admitted

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on television this will be a massive

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boost to u.s oil interests

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venezuela is of course the place

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where the world's largest treasure trove

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of black gold

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oil lies beneath

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the world's biggest supply

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of oil lies in venezuela

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do you really believe does anybody

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really believe

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that donald trump bolton and abrahams

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cares

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about the human rights of the people in

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venezuela they're rolling around in bed

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with saudi arabia which cuts people's

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heads off in public

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which crucifies them literally in public

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which denies everyone in the country the

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right to vote for

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anybody the world's unfreest country

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saudi arabia is the best friend

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of trump bolton abrahams

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and the rest of that grizzly crew

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but it's not just tragedy it's farce

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how else can you describe a situation

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when a man in the street in caracas

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declares himself to be the president

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of a great latin american country of 30

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million people

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which the man behind me and bolivar this

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is miranda

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kicked european colonialism out of their

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land

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centuries ago a guy stands up

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in the street and says i'm now the

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president of venezuela

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and the united states government

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recognizes him

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a man in the street that has never even

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to be the president of venezuela

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is now recognized as the president of

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venezuela

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by trump and now by

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european governments including my own

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the british government

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and the crowning glory the farce that is

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the european parliament

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voted overwhelmingly today to recognize

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that man

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in the street in caracas whose name they

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don't even know

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whose name they cannot even pronounce

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is now the president of venezuela he's

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just announced

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that he's thinking of opening an embassy

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well in jerusalem of course in occupied

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in israel one of the first countries to

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recognition and just by coincidence

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hundreds of israeli soldiers arrived

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in neighboring brazil with its long

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border and its jungle between

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it and venezuela brazil

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led by a fascist bolsonaro

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was one of the first to give recognition

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impostor the guy in the street

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in caracas the first thing

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he does is bring in the israelis

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you may not know this but brazil has

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nato here's another level of farce the

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nato north atlantic brazil

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has just applied to join it and its

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will be accelerated that i promise you

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that's what happened to colombia

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another state with a border with

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venezuela

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and many many grudges

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against venezuela two nato countries

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on either side coincidence i'll let you

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decide that but here is my take

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these two countries our associates of

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nato

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and nato intends to join the regime

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change

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operation in venezuela whatever the cost

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in bloodshed

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terror fear and destruction

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on top of the world's largest reservoir

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of oil you don't have to be einstein to

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work

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that out now

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this farce has led to a situation

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where all over the world people

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are having to make their stand

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the african union on the same day as

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these jokers in the european parliament

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recognized the guy in the street

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in caracas the african union which

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knows something about colonialism which

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knows something about invasion

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about the looting of its national wealth

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and treasure

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the african union unanimously

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continued its recognition of president

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nicolas maduro

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and venezuelan sovereignty

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i think that's telling don't you the

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european

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parliament the parliament of the

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of modern day colonialism in the last

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all of them were up to their necks in

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colonies

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in the third world miranda died in a

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spanish prison

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having been taken captive by them for

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his role

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in the anti-colonial movement in latin

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so the parliament of the colonialists

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recognizes the man in the street in

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the parliament the african union

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of the continent most defiled

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economically raped even

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of its own people taken off as slaves

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unanimously rejects this regime

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change operation now i've been to

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venezuela

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many times i want to tell you

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why all these people hate the venezuelan

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revolution so much they hated

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chavez the previous president

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of venezuela for the same reason that

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they hate

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nicolas maduro because both of these

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presidents

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have determined to use venezuela's oil

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wealth

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for the benefit of the poorest people in

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the country

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to the disadvantage of the gold-toothed

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emigres in miami and the rich 200

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families

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who before chavez owned and controlled

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everything in venezuela the chavez

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revolution

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built houses built hospitals built

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built universities gave computers

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to the students in every school in

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venezuela they completely transformed

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the lives of the poorest people in

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venezuela and i'm here to tell you

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the poorer the venezuelan the blacker

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the venezuelan the more

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mixed race the venezuelan the more

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native american the venezuelan the more

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they love chavez

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the more they love maduro and the

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converse

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is also true the richer the venezuelan

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the more they hate the chavez revolution

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so

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everybody has to pick aside here

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everybody has to

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decide are you with the rich venezuelans

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or are you with the poor are you with

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the black venezuelans

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or are you with those with gold teeth

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living in expensive exile where do you

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stand

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i know where i stand and it's not the

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most difficult question

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i've ever asked myself they

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want to destroy the bolivarian

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revolution

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in venezuela because they cannot bear

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riches wealth being under

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the control of a government an elected

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government

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repeatedly elected government chavez and

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maduro have won more elections

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than any other politicians on the entire

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planet elections that were judged

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by jimmy carter no less who won a nobel

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prize for observing other people's

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elections as pristine

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as the best in the world they can't

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stand it

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the imperialists the colonialists

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how dare these poor southerners

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from latin america repeatedly elect a

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government

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that acts for the poor and acts

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against the interests of the rich and

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powerful i don't want you to think

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that i have no criticisms of nicolas

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maduro

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and of the venezuelan government i do

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but some of you won't like what those

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criticisms are

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i criticize both chavez and maduro

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for leaving the economy overwhelmingly

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in the private sector if you own the

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economy

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you can own the politics or you can

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successfully use your ownership of the

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economy to make life

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impossible for the elected government

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and that's what's happening here

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they they describe venezuela as a

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socialist country

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it's not a socialist country france is

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more of a socialist country

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than venezuela there's more industry

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economy

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in the hands of the state in france than

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there is

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in venezuela venezuela has a socialist

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government yes

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but it doesn't have a socialist

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economy and it should have

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made much more progress in taking into

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public

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hands the commanding heights

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of the economy and taking

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away the threat of the richest

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venezuelans holding them to

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ransom sabotage subversion

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economic wrecking my second complaint

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is equally controversial

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there is a real problem of criminality

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and lawlessness in venezuela in a way

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that there simply isn't in cuba one of

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the safest places

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in the world if you're a revolution

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you have to apply revolutionary

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tactics against criminals

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organized criminals or merely street

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thugs

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robbers and murderers venezuela

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is not repressive it isn't repressive

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enough to the criminal classes

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that it should have dealt with long ago

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and thirdly i have real criticisms

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of corruption in certain elements

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in venezuela it is not possible to be a

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socialist government

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and to allow corruption to flourish

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underneath you this demands

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revolutionary rigor

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to root out corruption and to deal

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in the most serious possible way with

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the corrupt

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elements that are poisoning the well in

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your society

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now i've been saying this for some time

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and it hurts me

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to have to say it again but i tell you

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this

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if you're asking me to choose between

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donald trump

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john bolton and elia abrahams

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or whoever it is nobody knows their

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names who run the european parliament or

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whoever it is that's running the

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european union

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or theresa may or jeremy hunt if you ask

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me to choose

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between them and hugo chavez

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and nicholas maduro well that's another

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question that isn't

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difficult to answer i stand with

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the venezuelan revolution i stand with

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its leader president nicolas

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maduro who will be the president of

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venezuela

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until the people of venezuela vote him

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out whatever pretenders usurpers

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jokers imposters appear

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on the scene finally

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i want to say this when i was in

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venezuela

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last time for chavez final victory

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not long before he was tragically taken

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from us

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i came back here to discover that there

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were people

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perhaps large numbers of people perhaps

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some of them

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even truly believed it that

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thought chavez had somehow suppressed

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dissent opposition media

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in venezuela in fact

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in my time in venezuela opposition

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marches and demonstrations formed up

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under my hotel window every day

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and thousands of oppositionists some of

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them

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armed many of them ready to set fire to

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anything they could

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marched off in protest against hugo

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chavez

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when i looked at the newsstands it

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astonished me

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that the vast majority of the newspapers

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and the magazines

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owned by the rich were spewing out

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their anti-chavez propaganda

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and every time i turned on the tv

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no matter how much i channel hopped

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all i could find were television

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stations

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supporting the opposition and i suppose

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the point i'm making is this the people

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that told you

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saddam hussein had weapons of mass

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destruction

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and that we must invade and destroy iraq

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the people that told you that we must

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invade and destroy libya

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for freedom and democracy the people who

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told you

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we must invade and destroy syria in the

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interests of human rights

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and democracy ditto in afghanistan ditto

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in the war camp in the ukraine

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and many other places in the world the

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same people

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who told you all these lies

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are telling you to hate nicholas maduro

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a man most of you had really given

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little thought to

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just a week ago but a huge

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effort is now being made to make you

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think that this man is the worst

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thing since i don't know

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bashar al-assad colonel gaddafi

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saddam hussein ho chi minh

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the same people the same fake news

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industry which tried to persuade you

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and successfully persuaded enough of you

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to allow them to bring about

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disaster all across the world now

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want to march you into yet another

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disaster in many cases the very same

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politicians

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the very same journalists the very same

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broadcasters

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so in conclusion ask yourself this

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if they were wrong then why are they

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right now

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if they were lying then why are they

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telling the truth now

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ask yourself that question

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i asked myself it my answer

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is clear viva venezuela

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viva chavez villa armadoro

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[Applause]

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