For the record, yes, Joanna is taller than me, I'm just standing closer to the camera. Que Chévere pana! Vamos hacer este vaina! GRAB YOUR AREPAS AND WELCOME TO THE "HOT GIRL WITH PROBLEMS" of Latin America, #VENEZUELA!!

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1867">31:07</a> Joanna's face after remembering Maduro's super hero cartoon and action figure just sums up perfectly what goes on in our little venezuelan brains literally everyday.

I went to every single state of Venezuela in the space of 4 months last year, and I can tell you that, from the near 80 countries I've been to, it has by far the most impressive, diverse geography I've ever seen.

As a Venezuelan and Geographer I am really honored, glad and happy with the episode. This is the most complete, objective, respectful and beautiful descriptive video of my country I have ever watched. Thanks a lot!!! 10/10 ❤🇻🇪

As a colombian, watching this episode made me smile. Venezuela and Colombia are almost the same culturally. Lots of love to all venezuelans that are struggling now. Ya verán que vienen tiempos mejores. Besos.

Waited for this one a long time. Hope to travel there one day👍

"Hot girl with problems" may be the best depiction for Venezuela

I love Venezuela, it may be in economic ruin, submerged in violence and crime but I am telling you, this country was a jewel to the world! The people there are kind , and I know many who have suffered as they come here in the thousands (some illegally to trinidad). I wish that Venezuela improves and returns to the vibrant nation that I've been to Many times as when I was young. Greetings to my fellow Venezuelan neighbours from Trinidad and Tobago.🇻🇪🇹🇹🇬🇾

I’m Dominican and we love Venezuela as much as Venezuelan love us. The father of our country died in Venezuela; we’ve been emigrating to each other’s countries for all of our history; our Tainos came from Venezuela, too. Such a bummer you couldn’t be there; it explains why tourism is not as developed as in DR, something I always wondered, because their land has so much potential for it!

Francisco de Miranda fought in the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolution and the Spanish American wars of independence.

I've visited Venezuela in April and absolutely loved it! The people are astonishingly nice, even for Latin American standards. I wish them all the best for the future

So if I'm ever in Venezuela, all I need to do is go around saying, "Ay, vaina vaina vaina, vaina vaina, vaina vaina," and they should understand me just fine!

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="504">8:24</a> The Bolivar Square picture shown is Bogota, Colombia (which has a same named Square).

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1230">20:30</a> Remember when barb said on Indonesia Episode that "Indonesia and Malaysia are kind of like the Colombia and Venezuela of Southeast Asia"? so this is what he meant.

I did a trip to Venezuela in May of 2000. Loved the people but couldn’t believe the beauty of the scenery. From the beaches to the mountainous rainforests, Venezuela still is the most beautiful place I’ve traveled to.

In Colombia we often forget how important Venezuela was for our history. Yeah, there are problems but most importantly, Venezuelans are nice people that in fact want to “resolver”.

Wow I’m so early Venezuela was still part of Gran Colombia

Love Venezuela from Malaysia 🇻🇪 ❤🇲🇾

I'm from Maracaibo and been following this chanel about like 5 years waiting for this episode my 🇻🇪

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2352">39:12</a> Thank you for talking about the special bond between venezuelans and canarians. As a canarian myself, I've met so many venezuelans throughout my life, some of whom are friends of mine or extended family members who migrated to Venezuela and came back recently. I think 90% of us have at least one venezuelan relative. P.S: it's great to see Joanna participate in this episode. I've also been following her for years!

Vietnam episode is becoming closer than ever

The venezuelan accent is really similar to the one from the canary islands, because there was a lot of emigration between the two :)

I was lucky enough to spend 2 weeks in Venezuela in 1986, when it was the most prosperous country in South America. I was in Maracaibo, Maiquitia, Anaco, Barquisimeto, Margarita Island amd back to Maracaibo. I almost got to see Angel Falls but that's another story. I really hope that they get back to being prosperous because I would Love to go back. They were some of the most amazing and beautiful people I've ever met, not to mention the landscape.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2157">35:57</a> I think it's worth pointing out the waves that El sistema made in Classical Music. The Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra under Gustavo Dudamel and José Antonio Abreu was one of the best in the world before they changed it to be an actual symphony orchestra, and I know that they tried to replicate this kind of system in various European countries. Musicians from the formal SBYO now play in some of the best orchestras in the world (like for example Edicson Ruiz who's been a member of the Berlin Philharmonic for over 15 years). A lot of the young musicians also participated in the anti government protests in 2017, where at least one of them got killed and quite a few were imprisoned.

The notification came to me when I was listening to Venezuelan music. I love my Venezuelan panas from Argentina, definitely a country I want to visit before dying 🇦🇷❤️🇻🇪

I was just reading about the upcoming Nintendo Direct rumors and once I was your name next to Venezuela I never clicked on a video so quickly in my life. Been waiting for this moment since 6th Grade and now I’m a Sophomore in high school. It’s finally here 🇻🇪

Great video! It was great to have Joanna as a co-host, I love her KZfaq sketches. Much love to our Venezuelan brothers from Canarias 🇮🇨🇻🇪. Hope things get better for all of you.

Hoping for a better future in Venezuela. Love from Australia 🇦🇺❤🇻🇪

I love Venezuelan culture and people, they are so nice !! And of course I love Venezuelans telenovelas (especially the RCTV ones). "La mujer de Judas" definitely the best one !! ¡¡Saludos y gran abrazo a los panas venezolanos desde Brasil !! 🇻🇪 ❤ 🇧🇷

I went for 2 weeks in 2011. Caracas, Cuidad Bolivar, Canaima & Cumana. Saw things you can only see in Venezuela, changed my life. I came home and quit my job at the time which I hated. I'm nearing retirement and ready to go back to see Angel falls again. Este tiempo, yo puedo hablo Espanol muy Bien ! 🤓

Much love for Venezuela 🇻🇪 Manuel Rojas Luzardo 🇵🇷❤🇻🇪 Basically I consider him as a founding fathers of Puerto Rico 🇵🇷

Love Venezuela. Greetings from Greece

Thank you very much for doing this episode. It's a pity you weren't able to visit the country. I just wanted to clarify something: I'm from the Paraguaná Peninsula, and I've never heard it called "Isla Cora," nor have I been able to find any source that says so. The name Paraguaná in the Caquetío language (an indigenous ethnic group that inhabited the area) roughly translates as "garden in the sea." I hope you get to visit Paraguaná one day. It is a beautiful place. Edit: Gochos = people from the Andes, not country folk.

🫓 The Colombian arepa is a side 🫓 The Venezuelan arepa is a meal

Pointing with their lips?! Haha love that. Thank you for this episode! I took notes actually! I am going to talk about some of these things with my Venezuelan friends at dinner next week when we get together.

As a Colombian, Venezuela is a country that is just so insanely close and familiar to us, its kind of hard to imagine life without them. Obviously, people can get pretty mean on both sides a lot of the time, but I would argue that Venezuela is so fundamental to Colombian culture (and vice versa) that our national identities wouldn't even exist as we know them without each other. We're two of the culturally closest countries in the world, if we're being honest.

Thank you for showing my beautiful country Venezuela. As a son of Venezuelan myself, from the bottom of heart thank you for this episode.

Love from Sri Lanka❤ 🇱🇰🤝🇻🇪

I have been waiting 4 years for this episode! I'm venezuelan, currently 10 years outside my country, and now, I'm watching this video in Taiwan. Brought tears to my eyes, so many memories, so much love for my country. Thanks Barb! Y gracias Joanna, les quedó arrechsiima está vaina 😂

Venezuela seems like such a vibrant country with beautiful coasts and theme parks. Caracas especially. And that waterfall is beautiful, Angel Falls. I've heard of Arepas before but didn't know they were Venezuelan food, awesome! I have to try them sometime. Tequeños seems so good as well! Biodiverse animals and plants on top of flat mountains sounds so dope as well! Love from an American and wishing you guys the absolute best, even tho you are going through a crisis, wishing you can pull through, there's always a light at the end of a tunnel ❤

Been watching since Argentina episode waiting for my country Venezuela. You did a great job, thank you Barbs and Joanna

How did you miss the cachapa in the food listing! I was obliterating those daily in that mall in Cumana!

As a Puerto Rican and friend of Venezuelans, this has been the best episode I have seen in Geo... after the Ukraine one.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2150">35:50</a> you forgot the famous long VENEZUELAN BIRTHDAY SONG. 🎵Hay que noche tan preciosa 🎵🎵🎵

Venezuela has the most Miss Universe titleholders. Exotic Fruit, Good Nature. and as an Irish-Spanish i'll say "Fuerza Venezuela"

Geography Now and Joanna doing a collab is everything I could have ever asked for

As a Filipino, I learned that aside from being a former Spanish colony, the thing that we share similarities with Venezuelans is that we also point using our lips and we are obsessed with beauty pageants. Lol this is so amusing. It's like we're like Venezuela's cousins from Asia😅

How did you guys miss Jose Altuve as a MLB Venezuela baseball player.

I remember being 12 when I started watching this channel in 2016 and patiently waiting for the Venezuela episode. I am now 20 years old and the time has finally arrived

I waited for this episode for so long, and it was the best thing ever. 😮‍💨🇻🇪

A fun thing to check out in Venezuela is also that there's a community where the people speak Alemannic (think Swiss, or Swabian, or Alsatian)

It's pretty safe to say Venezuela is one of the places with the most beautiful women with all their pageant victories. In my opinion I would say Vietnam, Ghana, Ukraine, and Italy are all up there as well.

Now that the country is much safer than before and we're not experiencing food and basic product shortages anymore, many foreigners are coming to visit us. If you have a chance, come visit Venezuela because the sights, the food, and the people are amazing, we could ditch the oil and live off tourism and agriculture. Also, happy to have helped with the script for this episode! ♡

Love Venezuela 🇻🇪 ❤️ 🇵🇷

Great episode guys! Gorgeous country. Venezuelan arepas are the best, it's true! brb gonna go make some now

Lovely episode, so pumped for Vietnam! I hope you mention the Polish and Czech Vietnamese minority, there are tons of Vietnamese people here!

In the music segment you forgot how vallenato, salsa, reggeaton and merengue are huge in Venezuela. Nice episode, i love it

Respect Venezuela from Indonesia Hope things get better 🇮🇩🤝🇻🇪

Go Venezuela. Love from India ❤️

Some things you may have left out of the music section. The Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra was the premier youth orchestra in the aughts. Also conductor Gustavo Dudamel has guest conducted many symphony orchestras around the world. Great work, and i'm a big fan of y'alls work here!

Finally! The V countrys. Venzuela is really underrated, aswell as Vietnam.

Respect Venezuela from Albania 🇦🇱🇻🇪

As a colombian myself It's all fun and games when you're talking to someone from Venezuela until The whole Arepa debate comes in Lmfaoooo😂

Venezuela has one of the best rappers in spanish language in history. Canserbero, a true icon of Latin american rap

As a Venezuelan that has watched this channel since Afghanistan, the wait was worth it!

Friends and family in Venezuela tell me all the time how about 2 years ago virtually all crime stopped, no thiefs, violence, nada. Bars and restaurants filed with Russian, Chinese and Turkish tourist, going to $100 ticket baseball games and parting like crazy So weird than during the same time murder and violence skyrocketed in so many other latam countries. SO WEIRD

I’ve been following this channel from the very beginning when episodes were just 10 min packed with info and finally the day has come where I get to watch my home country…I had the hope that by the time this episode was to be aired the Venezuelan dictatorship was going to be part of recent history but sadly it’s still part of our reality! I hope very soon barbs makes an update on this episode explaining the fall of the regime and the wonderful things a free Venezuela can offer to the rest of the world

Just starting watching this. So excited to see this episode! ¡Estoy muy emocionado verlo! 😁🇻🇪❤️🇺🇸

I from Nepal 🇳🇵🇳🇵 go venejuela good contry

Here in Brazil we call the "Up" Plateau as Mount Roraima. Love from Brazil (even though some Brazilians don't treat you right) And I remember Joanna! I remember the old videos from Flama! She's amazing!

Remake your old videos please

Dayana Mendoza, Stefania Fernandez And Gabriela Isler. Three Beauty Queens Who Won The Miss Universe Pageant From Venezuela In Recent History.

I learned how to make arepas from a Peruvian and he said that it's Venezuelan... Sorry Colombians... 😂

That was a special episode, guys! Really well done all-around. Kudos to the whole crew.

I've been very fortunate to meet a lot of Venezuelans while working as a restaurant server in Houston, TX, can absolutely confirm they are some of the nicest and chillest people I've ever served. I hope I can visit this beautiful country someday 💛💙❤️

Wishing the best for the Venezuelans

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2466">41:06</a> Hi from Vietnam. 🤗♥️🇻🇳

Well, i started watching since the “A” countries when i was in grade 5, now im in college waiting for my beloved Vietnam episode. What a journey!

Thanks for the opportunity to talk about our food. It was fun! ❤

I had a teacher in middle school who was from Venezuela.

He esperado aaaañosss por el episodio de Venezuela

Guys Min <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="506">8:26</a>, Bolivar Square photo is actually in Bogota DC (Colombia) not in Venezuela

A major point that was missed in the discussion on El Essequibo is the fact that the largest oil reserve in the world was recently discovered off of its coast. This has ignited territorial claims over who gets to own the oil fields.

Two of my favourite KZfaqrs together? This is going to be a great video.

Finally after so many years watching we get the Venezuela episode, great job guys

Thank you Barbs for putting so much effort into your videos! I love to see how you and your friends have so much fun while educating us into knowing the basics and more about world geography

Omg two of my favorites KZfaqrs in one video!! Thanks for making this happen for us!

Finally all of the South American countries have been completed! 🇦🇷➡️🇻🇪

Actually Venezuelans are closer culturally to Dominican republic, as Colombians actually come from Galicia and the Basque county instead of The Canaries. Also Before the consolidation of the modern states some could say that the colombian llano was closer to venezuela than Nueva granada itself. The andes mountains seperating venezuela from the most of the colombian population made us pretty distinct. This is why the Arepa was introduced to colombia throught the llanos, as a large part of the colombian llanos used to be venezuelan territory. The language of the Cumangoto tribes people which named the arepa are concentrated in modern day venezuela And the Llano border in colombia

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="505">8:25</a> - the left image is actually of the Bolivar Square in Bogotá, Colombia

We had a lot of colombians moving over to Venezuela because of FARC, they returned with a new found love for arepas and now are claiming it for themselves, we invented it, and Polar commercialized the first industrial corn flour to make them, before that is was a whole ordeal, and it tasted different, the colombians have Arepa de Choclo, that is the Same as a "Cachapa", and that's the original arepa.

Which member of the South American family is Brazil?

There is a Venezuelan owned cafe in London that does arepas and empanadas and they are so good. I would love to visit Venezuela one day.

I'm from Maracaibo and is really the reference in "Gaitas" and I like this video from the biggest information from the all countries in this type of the videos

Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹 is also a close friend of Venezuela and also shares in migrants, food and music.

As a spaniard I've known lots of venezolanos throught my whole life, such nice and loving people. In almost every political campaign in Spain we always get bombarded by the far-right with Venezuela this and Venezuela that. All I can hope is for Venezuela to find politicians that it's poeple deserve and care for them no matter the ideology, because venezolanos deserve it. Fuerza Venezuela, besos desde España 🇪🇸❤🇻🇪

I think as Colombians we often forget the strong bond between our sister nations like Venezuela and Ecuador (Panama too). We have a lot of things in common.

I'm Spanish and I confirm that the relationship between Canary Islands and Venezuela is *strong* . A Venezuelan came once for the first time to El Hierro (the South-Westest island) and local people asked her _who are you related to?_ Yes: having relatives in the other side of the Atlantic is not that unusual there. Not at all. And I ate Canarian arepas, and I love the _tequeños_ I bought in the supermarket in El Hierro 😋 I guess you get the idea 👈

I must say Venezuela and the Philippines are like twin countries. So much in common when it comes to history and culture 🇻🇪🇵🇭 The pointing using the mouth is one. 😅

Drink whenever you hear “Bolívar”