The Venezuela They Don't Show You - LIV Episode 10
migration from venezuela has been going on for decades the international organization for migration estimates more than a million residents have left the country in the past two years a mother shows cell phone video of her daughter once a dancer in the orange dress now nearly immobilized by a brain tumor but there's no cancer medicine in venezuela so her mother and yuri fuentes will try and make the difficult journey to colombia venezuelans are now the largest group by nationality seeking asylum in the u.s millions of venezuelans have fled the surrounding countries in south and central america it was a scene of violent attacks on venezuelans after a local shopkeeper was robbed some brazilians targeted venezuelan refugees i was inside my tent with my children to look at the push why are they specifically leaving venezuela well this is a country in in many ways economic collapse most doctors have left due to lack of salaries those still here work for nearly free it has very very serious rate of inflation estimated to be about a hundred thousand percent at the moment for men and women telling us go back to venezuela you're criminals also saying this uh the venezuelans who have come back because they couldn't find what they were looking for in other countries we've been hearing reports of that what is happening with them well this that's true i mean the the venezuelan government i i should say does argue that a lot of this uh migration crisis we're seeing at the moment they say it has been exaggerated they argue that this is as to quote them they say this is fake news that they argue that there are plenty of colombians for example that do that are coming to venezuela and as you mentioned some venezuelans that have tried to go and have since decided it's not for them now yes there are some that have uh taking up venezuelan government offers to return but so far the numbers are very small families at the border wait for their turn wait for what they hope is a better life i came here to work and help my family because you can't back there this is gonna be a good day what's going on guys it's your boy ace live i'm here in merida i'm with my whole girl sylvia and we are going to her house she's taking me to her house to meet her mother her family but on the way we're going to be stopping at somewhere dope so i can't wait to show you some of the beautiful countryside of venezuela i don't know if this place is considered country country it's like a city but it's very country to me it's very uh tropical and greeny i love this place so far it reminds me of other places i've been to but man the scenery here is just amazing enjoy the ride as this venezuelan woman takes me to her house all right guys so just to give you an idea um in order to get to my friend's house it's gonna take us around five hours and we're gonna be going through a bunch of different towns um to get there i thought she i thought she lived in merida even more just like that guys the terrain has changed we're actually going up these mountainous road and it's getting very cold all right guys we made it to uh the town this uh town is called padamo yeah it's really high in the mountains and uh there was rumor that there is no happening here i could see that um based off of yeah it's uh very humid here it is super cold here um good energy i love it they are very very cool i guess those guys are doctors doctors medicals and he's just the driver bro wow la gloria del liberty director this is a samoan boulevard a monumental for someone boulevard okay of course you can't see it it's not a cold air we'll see if we can get something to eat some maybe that'll ease my stomach up and make some warm stuff they sell here all right super dope wow this is super cool oh my god it's so good this is what i needed that's what i did if you're walking i'm like jittery-ish be getting some form of corn here okay we're gonna get it with some butter and cheese okay here we go all right guys after driving another hour and a half we made it to the town of the place actually which is at the bottom of the mountain and there's more town life here life is more simpler here things aren't as complicated it's beautiful here wow bonito okay guys we just got pulled over um apparently there's a lot of these checkpoints they're really well set up checkpoints and you'll have military there and for the most part we've been going through them like a breeze but this is the first time we got stopped and i got interrogated it was a quick interrogation normally around this time from what i'm hearing from carlos from vogue the other youtuber i've been hanging out with he's been telling me that they can use that time to see if they can get some extra money from you but uh my for me was uh it was smooth uh i didn't talk so at first they were like why is he not talking and then you know they got me out the car and just so i gave him my spanish and um everything was cool it was like how when did you arrive and then um they asked me um what i'm up to and i'm like i'm basically vacationing and i'm right now i'm visiting her and her family and so they talked to the the driver and her first they pulled them out of the car they left me in the car i guess they wanted to hear the her story first but the the guy you know i mean you can tell like well i don't you can't i don't know if you can look at a person's face you can see this guy's like a really honest um military um personality it didn't seem like he was looking for extra but if he found some mess he would have you know what i mean so it was an interesting uh story i left my camera on the bottom of it right here and um he found it so i was worried about him like getting crazy about my camera but uh he's like what is that i said that's the camera he's like they did ask her uh he thought basically when he asked me he was expecting me to say oh media but i was like i was going to say stop so needle but i rather her answer and so that's when they got like oh wait where's this guy from for real you know what i'm saying so uh not too much trouble from your book because we have had stories of people coming into venezuela and they're being accused of being something they weren't or whatever so you got to be careful with that so they probably looked at me saying yeah he ain't doing that he ain't doing nothing but eating some food out here all right guys it looks like we are close to her house it's filming the energy um of the place it's this is considered a city but it feels like a town to me yeah they say look at pele grosso we're gonna go to her house meet her mom her her family i think her mom is cooking something for me i'm going to be checking into a hotel nearby and hopefully get the party started i want to party in this um this city right here and yeah enjoy my time and then tomorrow we'll be going to uh a very famous tourist destination that's nearby but uh yeah i'm excited to be here man i just know i know this woman since 2020 and this is crazy how i met her and now all of a sudden i'm in her hometown it's an amazing feeling my friend represents millions of people who have left the country of venezuela to find a better life or to find money and uh to send back to their families so i met her in columbia she was selling coffee and candy when i met her and i ended up offering her a job to cook for me and make youtube videos and that's how our relationship got started so if you want to see those cooking videos they're on my channel okay they were legendary a lot of people uh love those videos so but we are here wow bonita wow oh that's how you've been living that's how you live it yeah okay okay let me take care of this driver um we'll be good here we go how you doing wow more wow wow beautiful beautiful i love how the window opens up here really nice we're holding oh we're gonna find out who cooks better her or her mother okay wow let's see this kitchen real quick wow oh my god oh yes wow oh my god she says she loves to cook that's why she really enjoys doing that wow okay what's going on this is little sister right here la puerta me coca-cola so that's why they have like they don't have electric um stoves they have a gas stove so they can cook whenever but they have three hours worth of electricity every single day so right now uh it okay there you go get ready for this this is silvia's room right here it is super pink yo it is pink are you seeing this guys okay with the white trim and this is pink you can't see it because the gopro won't get it right but look even the this this makes it more pink the window and look at her aha wow guys so you can see it better here you go so yeah that's her guys you see this right here oh my god that is her right there okay wow this is her for her 15. for her sweet 15th birthday you know like in america the women like to do there's another one oh another picture oh she want to make sure i see all the pictures halloween okay second wow wow okay i guess this is mine's right here wow guys so we eating some lasagna and some oh my gosh some nice potato salad this is good but it looks like sweet plantains and you cannot go without the coca-cola this is her infatuation with coca-cola we finally figured it out wow people families this is this is the highlight i know like you guys like my party videos but these are the videos i cherish more meeting people and eating food wow what is your favorite comedian all right guys i'm going to dig she's the oldest here guys okay this food all right let's try we'll start with the lettuce uh right here so good guys oh my gosh guys this is so good muy rico the lasagna guys yeah this is good guys all right i'm gonna enjoy the food guys we'll be back tomorrow oh guys so we get to see more of her uh sweet 15 birthday celebration so wow that's her brother right there that's her father right there that's the mom ah well good so she basically started preparing for uh the sweet 15 a year before the festivities man it's a very serious um event for the latin women in south america wow okay kangas else okay that's her mother so this is her mother's mother grandmother and then that's the amiga of someone okay okay your sister amana brother your cousin and that's the cousin cousin cousin husband more do something do uh uh amana's okay so she was from a different father but her um her brothers and sisters had a different father so she came out a little bit more clear but her mom was a chocolate sister okay i can't smooth cherries venezuela is is foreign um wow no okay what's up guys so now we're going to my hotel i invited them all to just hang out with me um i just need to be around some good internet they wanted me to stay at their spot i just didn't want to over impose but uh yeah i would be coming back and yes just getting first-hand experience about uh living in venezuela has been eye-opening for me very eyebrow i feel very grateful and uh blessed to get the opportunity to know this side of venezuela and i like this car too bumble bee the transformer this is a nice car right here right yeah you see that number on the windshield basically that's the number they put for um people that get in the line to get gas so there's no disorder or someone can't argue i was here first or whatnot but every time he goes to the line um they'll give him a new number or something like that we were actually driving it was he was showing me how a guy was tilting his motorcycle just so he can get a little bit more extra gas out of it he was like literally leaning it to the side so he could get more gas to get into the motorcycle this country's so rich in gas and it just has a problem distributing it to the people um so it's tough that's kind of tough so this road brings us back to merida where we just came from and now we're heading this way to another city called pelea so we were at kabaha now we're going to valleja these are like all small um cities and neighborhoods right next to each other so we're heading that way so far like the people here they come across as very honest hard-working people just very humble people really enjoy that that aspect all right so this uh looks more like more infrastructure type of town right here it seems old but got a couple blockades here but uh even in the most secluded town the golden arches are still present oh my god the golden arches are everywhere man i feel like they have the biggest real estate in in the world i might be wrong but this is insane how much real estate the golden arches had like 35 000 people live in this neighborhood all right oh can't take it again wow but i said we got like a mall right here okay it is it really built well okay okay so we're actually going into the area where the the money is okay this is where the people who got money this is also mall right here guys they said a lot of people have their money because they got businesses they own certain businesses and that's why they have money oh here you go the gasoline line right here the infamous and this one you'll see this all over venezuela these lines don't even get long and this one right here seems short well let's see how long it goes just to get some gas here let's go all right we're still going up man the line is still going up yeah oh wow yeah okay everybody's accustomed to waiting these ridiculously long lines to get some gas now regressing okay so when you get gas you make sure you pull off there's no no other way of doing it it's got a park right here so it's a exercise park right here okay wow i wasn't beginning to think it was more of a town type setting but now that i'm in this area this is this does feel like a city and i guess so all that line would suggest to get here wow so in this zone this is a zone for money they're telling me you can get a house for around 80 to 100 grand here this is the hotel i'm going to guys it's a very chic boutique type hotel and it looks like a party happening over there hey man i made it here and this place is like paradise man i'm in a really nice hotel this hotel has a pool in it let me show you real quick i paid 50 um dollars a night uh i haven't checked the internet yet this internet though you know what i mean but it's not i don't think it's the best at least not in the room um but it works and so and apparently it's supposed to be a party here today um tonight so i think i came at a good time but i got the pool right here and then this is uh we're on the rooftop but then this is another floor and then there's another floor for a bar so it's a bar here bar here and a bar on another floor and then the rooms is that really a decent spot man decent spot um this is like 20 minutes from where the girls lived and they actually didn't even know about this place but uh yeah we're enjoying our time having drinks yes i'm loving it pretty good bonita all right yo so i'm hanging out with this girl right here all right guys that way actually went to sleep after sylvia left for my hotel they were partying at my hotel so i went to the bar they were playing so much music and everything there's a lot of people out there and i ended up meeting some of them and they wanted me to tag along with them so it was like around two o'clock in the morning i didn't call sevilla and they were going across the street from where i was at so i'm here now all right guys i have to record this so this is after and people want me to hang out sit with them so but i'm like uh i wanted to show you the place okay so this is how the place looks it's like a mexican spot yeah and they were playing comedy columbian music and the venison was like yo this is colombian music it was i was laughing because it's like a music colombian music and a mexican spot like they you know and then they start playing some music and music those lit you know it was a really good energy and these people here come and see him and say logan and we came out here when we came out here they had like a private party and then the people left is like okay yeah i could come back in but normally a lot of the good doing well venezuelans come out here right there is a contrast all right like i met these guys from my hotel and i ended up coming here because they invited me it's like hotels across the street by the way oh last it's a cutie pie she's very beautiful nice to meet you baby yes she knows okay so uh cathedral over there and this is the mayor's office we're getting a real cool look of uh the downtown area of of this city malaria it's called atlanta i'm sorry for city bro this is the city of the seven hills the city of the seven years this is a beautiful city i love it i i fall in love here with this place already oh let's see when you when you see the the women here i can't put this at the meeting this guy is making me laugh i can't record properly with this guy i'm telling you right now i can't record probably he just makes me laugh man he's just a very knowledgeable guy he is a teacher he teaches uh language spanish and so i'm gonna put his information in the description and you know i'm getting a different perspective of uh you know just a example of a place how venezuelan people live i mean this is not the major city we're out of the bubble at the moment a lot of social programs that that they have in caracas they don't have it here migration what has migration been like because i know you wrote an article about it um well oh yes i have written a couple of articles about migration and the first uh effect we felt here in the country is when we arrived when we realized our universities and schools were empty really yeah oh yes crowded uh classrooms with 15 students uh sometimes 20 30 students became empty classrooms like with five students or no students at all why was that because of because uh the situation in the country became harder and harder because of the political um cows and economic situation the average uh salary of a venezuelan was like one dollar monthly okay so can you figure out how hard is it to teach and survive yeah so as a teacher i i used three dollars monthly and it was uh until the december last year wow three dollars literally three dollars and it is not an exaggeration and how can uh a person live with three dollars monthly no one can so that's why uh we we do a lot of things to survive well uh uh as you can see i'm trying to help you he's like a jack of trades guys so he has he you know can you rate the school system here is it top notch the as far as far as the education because some may say people left because the education wasn't apar or was it really good education here i mean in venezuela we have private schools we have public schools we have private universities and we have public universities and also among the private the public universities we have uh government-controlled universities and the other type of universities that is is what we call uh universidades autonomous or autonomous universities where the government has no control over there so uh contents are uh updated and we do research so the autonomy uh university might be the one people want to go to or it doesn't matter yeah yeah yeah and uh a phenomenon that is taking place or has been taking place in my country is uh education uh in which students uh leave the classrooms they left the classroom to move to another country that's what we call students with limited and interrupted education the students uh stop studying to move to another country to work not to study they are working to send money to their families in venezuela so it's hard for them because uh very often they cannot keep on studying and finishing their careers there they cannot do that so it is difficult it is dramatic oh what kind of toll does that take in terms of the future of uh two years ago maybe or perhaps if you you're not going to believe what i'm going to say right now but i lost like 30 kilograms because of the creases oh you were bigger oh yeah okay i used to be like but i lost do you know what is uh what is what it feels uh when you realize you're losing uh weight without your will making a diet without that i wish uh you know what i mean yeah yeah but yes and that's that happened here in my country uh to think that since a lot of kids are leaving to pursue education in other countries what will happen to the future of the economy here in venezuela when a lot of professionals are not living here unless they come back but i doubt it if they're not going to get paid the way they want to everybody's just looking out for their family at the moment in 2017 we used to wake up at 2 a.m to stay on the line to buy um food in the grocery to go into the grocery store yeah the grocery stores here in downtown it was terrible our time such i i don't want those times to come back again i'm sure nobody wants that actually nowadays the country didn't return to normal it's kind of feeling like a little bit better it's better a little bit just a little bit but the country is not the is all the problems are not sold you know just a little bit you feel like there is an uh a feeling that the the the economics is trying to uh getting better okay so you feel like there's something stirring up with the economy here yeah but it's not there yet but it's something stirring up yeah but could it be because of the don't mean that the the country is fixed and every everything is wonderful not it's not like that uh because we still uh salaries are low uh one person is earning um 30 30 dollars i'm off to some people 20 three months let me ask you uh so what gives you that feeling because you see more people outside purchasing things or oh yeah you see people um buying stuff on the supermarkets and you see people drinking on streets and you know that's something we we you did not sit two years ago or three years ago was the crime rate higher then or has it been the crime as far as crime is it going lower or higher crime yeah so many criminals uh it's hard to say this so many criminals us uh moved to uh neighboring countries like colombia like um peru cause that's what you said there was one one wave of migration was the students yes what was the other waves you mentioned young uh workers young workers uh um you know the new generations that are supposed to uh to rebuild the country they left and young people like me here it is not the case or so many young people living in in the country working a lot of people most of the young people left the country and the reason why it's because they're young enough they're strong enough to survive in another country strong enough to uh to get used to work 12 hours or more than 12 hours they can uh work until a midnight or you know it is it's not the same uh about person with 60 years old or 70 years old to do the same it it could be much harder for a for an older person to do and then when we were talking about education i was just thinking um in terms of well if you have so many people who are leaving to pursue education in another country what does that mean for the future of the economy here when you don't have professionals here yeah like doctors and engineers and oh the the the sad uh thing here is is that most of the people that left the country uh haven't been able to pursue this their student studies because of the league their leaders yeah right and because of the money or they send money to their families in venezuela or they study or they do something else that is one thing or the other okay so uh what the implications of those massive movements of young people to another countries uh is that um we we don't have uh young people or the uh the young force uh to uh rebuild the country uh in the future we will see the results of all this but we will see the results in terms of education in terms in terms of job in terms of um in terms of uh school and university students population so it is hard the implications aren't so hard so but i besides despite all these aspects i consider that if if the country improves a lot of people is going to return uh i made uh i study um in which i interview with uh they were like 20 students university former university students uh interrupted their education to move to united states spain latin america and one of the items i remember i i called it the the hope item i asked them would you return to your country if the situation gets better and almost 92 percent of the answers were yes if the if the country returns if democracy returns i will return to my country you know well on the flip side a lot of them have claimed that they created new lives in in their place they're living now they have families there or maybe they're dating someone from that country and now it's it doesn't make sense for them to come back well that's true that's true uh it seems that i mean uh you can say oh yes i would like to return but once you have started a new life uh when you have a new family it is much harder to come back why did you because you you still young why did you decide you know what i'm going to stay here i don't know if you left but why well uh i'm still here because i first of all i have been able to make connections with colleagues okay um united states and europe north america and they send me a job offers okay okay so you've been able to i do i proofread articles i teach spanish okay so as long as you're able to make a living here why leave as long as you're able to make money so you can survive widely because this is this is your home oh yeah this is my home that's the place i want to be however my son i have a i have a 10 year son and he's living in chile right now and so far i don't have uh i don't have the the resources the resources to go to visit him and that's something that kills me uh all the time because i have that uh thought that wrecker and thought in my head okay my son is there okay i need to work if i work okay i work really hard i do at all some things to to live to earn some money from this from that but it's not enough for me to or earn for example two thousand dollars and say okay i'm going to visit myself that's not possible to me right now uh maybe in the future if i get uh if i find the option to work in for example united states uh teaching spanish or anything i i would do it i i would move there because i need to earn the money to see my son i need to do it right now because i'm young i i don't have another family so far yeah so uh that's one of the things i want to do i know it it takes time but i know you know it will do it you're going to do it i know you're going to do it but you also mentioned the difficulties of that because you know in a in a country well not every place has internet or power 24 hours a day so that's another no power no internet no okay i'm going to tell you what i did device i have a usb unit yeah with a with a 10 and it's a 10 minutes uh extra battery extra battery uh so i bought a car battery and i maintain installation with the e with the unit so i i uh battery for more than eight hours you know that's so that's how you that's how you do it just in case the power goes oh yeah wow yeah so that's how a lot of people do it right some of them in order to keep some extra power i have a friend uh she did it and i did the same i stole the idea i did it i'm working because i need to survive i need to make money uh so i'm teaching spanish and like i said guys this information in the description if you want to contact him or ask him or maybe you want to get a lesson so you do lessons of course so i'm gonna put all of that in the description man show the man some love all right okay let's uh let's figure out something okay all right he said what over there was a lot of drug dealers okay so it don't come down there it used to be there used to be a lot of about now this is different why what happened to the drug dealers they left or they left they they kill each other because they have they used to have ganks and they killed each other well i would think the police saw the military they were rivals and uh they killed each other okay so wow and this is in a pre-particularly this area right here guys so wow now it's a little bit peace oh yeah okay do you ever feel danger in here or no no not this city no not not now but it used to be because when the creases started and uh you you realize that a lot of incidents with guns and people robbing other people and happened even in my house i was robbed a guy came into my house and uh pointed me with with uh with a gun and they took my stuff my computer my watches my camera they kept you up and while they took everything yeah nice stuff uh friends got uh nothing serious happened my mother was there it broke he broke my heart when the guy oh the guy your mom was there yeah and the mother pointed the gun into my my mother and it was like i was dying but anyway it just happened uh we are better right now this is the cathedral over there looks nice what do you want to square nice little plaza right here guys boulevard square okay so now uh we are moving to uh this is one of the first malls here in the city center commercial this is this was the first or one of the first small uh modern malls here yeah now right here yeah it used to be a mall yeah yeah it looks like an apartment complex yeah it looks like an apartment company and then you got some clothing here it is not now it is a mold uh but that used to be a modern mall here the first uh mechanical staircases were there okay it was it was something cool i knew when you were entering into the stairs and you were moving like oh my god when i was a child that was a new thing such a modern thing here of course the time and the situation has done a lot of have affected this city and everything but balera is a beautiful city it's a good city what is this like a bus right this right here a bus when you know when the cruises started no public transportation we used to use those trucks to move from one place to another as public transportation ah so some people still use those oh yeah wow it's cheaper than using this bus right here yeah it was cheaper but now our public transportation is returning okay so this is another sign that the economy is doing a little bit better yeah because now we do have gas availability you can buy gas you just stay on the line for so many hours but youtube but you can buy the gas when is that going to get better how can that get better with the gas lines you know people used to spend like uh four days or five days now uh it's three hours three hours even from one day to another uh you stay all night there until the following day how can it get better do they need more gas stations open or oh if whenever you want you go to the gas station and you have and you put your gas in your vehicle and if you do it whenever you want that's okay that's when i wait when i i can say okay uh the country is much better okay because in any normal country you go to the gas station and you buy whatever you want and that's it okay but here it's different it's different yeah well i just we just passed a gas station it was empty so i think that's another issue too that if they had more opening spots you know the country because in the um in caracas you don't see to you see line no but it's not like that you know but i've been in other places where you see lines and it's so long yeah like the people are sleeping there is a parallel world yeah okay yeah it's like a fantasy or transportation terminal okay this is where i would need to go if i wanted to take a uh if we're going to kuyagwa he wants to want me to go to kooyawa because he says like the best beaches there yeah okay uh amazing places i invite everyone if you if you make it to venezuela uh if you want to go to yahwah the cayo's or a beautiful unexplained place uh ask me and invite me please and i will and i give you the orientations to go there safely okay oh these are the most expensive mcdonald's in the world one of the most expensive well compared to what people make it's very empty guys look at this look at how empty is the mcdonald's i want to eat there today okay okay i treat you okay let's do it why people don't go to mcdonald's sometimes because uh i have order dirt it's like 12 dollars if you pay seven dollars eight dollars in the street uh jericho you're going to eat twice for less money but most people eat at home yeah most people hit at home because of the situation when the situation is hard you think about it before spending money unnecessarily you know so most people uh eat at home or if they go to work uh they prepare their lunch before leaving home so that's it basically you can order whatever you want to work with okay so when we were in the motorcycle the camera cut off i believe you use the word caracas was like a fantasy land or something oh yeah because i don't know but in caracas is different uh because uh you don't you don't get electricity interrupted in some parts because i heard that happening isn't bad in caracas caracas it's not happening right now uh maybe it happens maybe it's in some uh towns uh around miranda state that is very near caracas oh you mean it doesn't like they don't have like a three hour down time every day no no not that time not like like like it's happening here in caracas it is it's not normal when electricity you mentioned there was like two different parallels the the rich and then the the ones that are just getting better the the more humble people villages and towns and of course i say that it's a different reality because if you go to caracas you'll realize there is water service electricity internet well i have a friend that stays in the bentiter and there's always issues with the water sometimes there's no water yeah yeah it's happening there so i think it's like example at certain parts that is uh 15 minutes from from this place uh we have spent like 52 days without water service and that's something it's not going to happen in caracas and never it's going to happen in pentecost because people is going to the streets and and you know you know what happens yeah that's okay maybe the service can be interrupted for one day or two days okay people may regret but uh the service ego is going to return soon but it's not like why why do you guys experience like a water issues or empower issues what's going on what's going on okay um it's happening because um there is a sabotage of the electric system by opposers oh that's what the government says and i read the newspaper uh and i read the opinion about some experts on the field and then and they say that this is happening because there was a lack of investment by the government who is responsible of the services in this country corpore that is the main electricity company didn't invest when it was required to invest and if you uh make the same companies and telephone services like uh mobilenet or canterve those services are terrible right now because of what lack of investment of course if you don't invest the systemy is going to fail at any point so that's what's happening here uh for example you have the heat that is one of the best telephone lines or services you can have in the country and trujillo is not working properly sometimes you have connection internet connection and sometimes you it'll come lost everything even you don't you cannot send a message a test message lack of investment if you don't invest in yourself as a person if you don't buy yourself closes if you don't buy yourself uh shoes perfume come on the same is happening with the services if you don't buy water pumps uh to the city or antennas in the case of telephone services come on well isn't that the job of the companies not the government but the government is the responsible in this case because uh was nationalized there is a state company so though they are responsible for for those uh uh for that investment okay okay uh the same it's happening with the water services the government is a manager of those services on those companies so you know america they have that um that that dolly that brings you to the mountains what's it called the um terrifical it's it's closed now and it's because something is broken but it's a uh something that was made by another country but the country's not going to fix it because they're not paying their initial bill for the telephonical built so because they pay the bills the company's not going to and now you're losing all that tourism money you don't pay your they are going to work for you again and that that's a that's that's normal and now you're losing if i teach you spanish you buy teachers uh c sessions if you don't pay me i i'm probably i'm not going to teach you again so uh from the basic uh example like in my context of teaching context if you don't pay me i don't teach you that's it is what it is uh uh you don't do you don't have a company to work for free come on come on if i teach it it's because i need to survive i need to earn my money the same is with companies are the same case they offer a service but they get their money for that so if the government is not paying of course they are not going to provide more uh refractions or parts for the system you know it's a reality oh so is oh what's going on guys it's the next day i'm with the family again hola hola hola okay we pretty much are going to see one of the tourist destinations in the area we are in through and we are going to see the virgin of the peace the peace version it's like uh it's like a statue of mary i think it could be wrong but it's a huge statue so i'm saying it's bigger than this than a statue of liberty and so i'm going to show you that and uh yeah this is how we're getting here man uh it's interesting to know this car is like goes like 35 miles per hour the most so it's challenging for us to get anywhere in this vehicle even going up this hill but we we're doing it we're trying to make it but i just wanted to show you the energy of how we're getting up to uh see this uh monument uh it's not easy baby but we almost there let's go exerciso all right guys so uh the bumblebee wasn't able to make it so we are gonna be taking uh the rest of the way walking we're almost there so we get to see a little bit more of the area this reminds me of my trip up the hill to haiti if you haven't seen that video go check it out when i went to the citadel but now we are going to go check out another monument but in venezuela before they weren't really roads like this so people had to walk up to see the monuments so we're getting a little bit of taste of what people had to do to get up here this uh place is actually for saturday feels like a ghost town here i don't know if there's a lot of tourism come here or it's because it's saturday maybe on sunday people come here but as you can see ghosts goes down hola hola all right guys so this is the entrance um to the monument la paz just to reiterate how big the statue is you can see it right here okay so these are different monuments they have in the americas all right so you have your statue of liberty here and then you have the one that we're visiting at the moment right now and then here's the one in brazil all right and i okay so the brazil has two large monuments okay i didn't even know about this one right here well there it is how do you know about that one that's bigger than this one but this one right here is the biggest wow it feels good to come see something so you monumental when this one is the most popular one out of all of them we're literally like the only people here at the moment well you got people here ready just in case there is like a rush of tourism that comes here wow okay there's an aerial view of the statue wow look at it it's huge ah from the sky you can see it well and she's holding a a dove on her right hand nice basically guys it's a five boulevards which i think is a dollar for each person that i have to come for this monument okay and i guess this might be some form of museum you can walk in and see it's only glacier okay so this is a chapel right here i guess so if you want to pray next to the statue you can't do it so let's take a look inside and see how this place uh looks uh this chapel hey the echo guys is interesting here thank you my believe it or not a lot of people come out here are seeking miracles and i think that's for most people they'll go to a church or spiritual areas to seek miracles in fact in this town there was a famous doctor his name was jose greg jose hernandez he was basically labeled the doctor for the poor and it was said that he would make miracles happen and so even in this town they immortalized him through statues and even saint statues you'll see um around the area uh and he's so important to the people in this community so i think a lot of people make these pilgrimages to this area to see maybe if they can find a miracle happening here so since a lot of people come out here to ask for miracles i'm gonna ask for a miracle myself all right i'm gonna ask that somehow venezuela gets back into good shape and gets the help that it truly needs and the people can come back to this country and really live this beautiful and fulfilled life they left here and also i would ask that venezuela continue to help out the people of haiti with gas whatever resources back in the day they made a promise to help haiti out and i would help i would hope they would continue to promise in helping the people of haiti during their turmoil as well miracles can happen but you just have to be patient now let's go up the statue right here the air is so fresh here muy fresca wow we are above the clouds guys look at this it's crazy yo and there it is this is huge wow this is bigger than the statue of christ i think so i might be wrong but it feels bigger and i've been to the one in cali and the one in brazil and even in the one in book of ramanga and this one is this huge apparently her mother is afraid of heights i don't know so guys this basically here's some information here so from my understanding it's the ma el mas after the america i don't know if that means the biggest monument of this type but i feel like it is the biggest monument in america so there you go um you are welcome to correct me from wrong all right so let's go okay all right so there are elevators here but unfortunately for your boy it's not working okay wow oh my god yeah i ain't this i can see why she'd be afraid i think we're actually right here guys so there's like layers to get to the top oh my god wow so this is where the dove is guys wow we made it to the dove hey we're here oh my god i guess we'll get into the last part guys like two angels playing playing in the statue in the monument they're like we're here already this is the biggest challenge right here the west okay she's down guys she's crawling on the floor i'm trembling guys coming up this night oh my god there you go guys i told her if she can travel and try to survive in other countries like she has it should be a cake it's just the resilience of the venezuelan people trying to survive this whole trip of this monument and seeing how people live in this struggle and seeing a glimpse of it i truly feel humbled by this experience if you do too let me know how you feel about this video hit that like button if you want to see more what happens next on my journey subscribe watch another video subscribe but i want to say thank you for following me on this journey anyways i'ma go down but before i do i got to remind you to always stay live thanks for watching this video this is a part of a series of videos with me in venezuela if this is your first video try to watch all the other episodes and catch up so you don't miss what's happening next i guarantee you it's going to be crazy yup you
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