Abbie Martin has recently visited Venezuela to find out the truth of conditions there. This article features an excellent video in which she interviews many Venezuelans on the streets. The interviewees sometimes refer to the east and west ends of Caracas. The east end is where most of the white Spanish descendants of the original Spanish colonialists live, whereas the west section of Caracas is where the mestizos and indigenous live. The east area is where the most of the owners of Venezuela industries also live.
I visited Venezuela for two weeks at the end of 2005 and visited not only Caracas but numerous other cities and communities. What she discovered recently in her interviews is very much like what I experienced in 2005. In fact, I found the newspapers were even more right-wing than she found them to be. I was very surprised by the fake news which the right-wing newspapers were allowed to print. I think food shortages of some items that were cited by her interviewees are completely accurate; but as explained by some of the locals, these are under the control of Venezuelan or multinational corporations which are collaborating with the US forces that have been trying to change the government for several decades. Also US government imposed sanctions are having adverse affects on the availability of goods.
Initially in the post Abby Martin provide a short introduction (I encourage you to read it) to her video which I have reproduced below:
