For more, don't miss the first episode of Vox Borders: Colombia. Johnny Harris traveled to Cúcuta, a city on the border between Colombia and Venezuela to see how the country is handling a massive wave of refugees fleeing the economic crisis. Watch: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hLtghdSo3MvZh40.html

Theres something seriously wrong if the currency has less value than V-Bucks

You know your country is in trouble when Runescape gold is worth more than your currency.

I’m Venezuelan in Canada and this is basically why I moved, my whole life has changed due to one man’s need to stay in power. Not only my life but 30 million people’s lives as well

I'm venezuelan i move to philippines with only couple of bucks lift in my pocket only good for several days and my life change when i met some good friends they invited me to their province to work for them as a caretaker of farm and year later i get married with my beutiful wife and have a son. To all my fellow venanzuelan out there you deserve better, i hope y'all safe outhere may god bless our country. 🙏❤️

I remember when i was 4 i thought why do poor people exist, just print money for everyone

Everyone who’s not from Venezuela and still send us love. As Venezuelan I would love to thank you for praying for us and thank you for actually knowing what is going on in my country

Germany: *prints money and spirals into depression* Venezuela: oh boy what a good idea

This is so scary and so sad. My heart goes out to those poor citizens.

i live in Venezuela and am in the second largest city, maracaibo. 30 years old. there is literally anyone my age anymore, from a group of 30 friends. Only 5 remain. Venezuelas future left the country.

I left the country when i was seven. I remember going to one if my moms friends party's who had also left the country and she said (in Spanish)"Just give it three years and it will all get better and we can go back." Its been almost five years and its only gotten worse..

I have a friend who was born in Venezuela, he oftenly talks about the situation in Venezuela whenever we have a little talk but im just glad he lives in my country now

Not from Venezuela, never been there as well, but I feel extremely sad for it's people.

You know something is wrong when the paper of your currency is printed on is more worth than the currency itself.

Netflix will make a series out of this crisis

What a shame for Simon Bolivar

I asked a Venezuelan expat in my country what he thinks of the situation in his country and if it was really as bad as the media portrayed it. His reply: "Worse!" 😓

Why does their president looks like Saddam Hussain?

*Venezuela has the world's largest oil reserves. Looks like Venezuela needs Freedom!*

Un abrazo a los venezolanos desde India. Tengo un amigo venezolano que me ha explicado toda la situación allí. Les deseo lo mejor 🙏 Cuídense

That's why you don't depend on oil for the economy

I remember when I first immigrated from Venezuela 12 years ago. I was 4 and my dad was working hard for everything we had since the government had just taken his land. I moved here with my mom and my sister when my dad couldn't and 4 years later my dad was able to finally come. 1 year ago my dad became a United States Citizen and 6 months ago my cousin and her family came after my other cousin died when he was protesting. It made me remember the struggle me and my family went through and it helped me appreciate how lucky I am to be in the United States.

You have to admire the Venezuelan people for their ability to suffer such, hardships, injustices and obvious corruption because they still believe in democracy. In most counties it would resulted in a civil war. So respect the Venezuelans. They need help but have not lost their principles.

Who else just clicked on this video to see people debate socialism in the comments

I wish good luck to all Venezuelans and the country of Venezuela. Love from the United States! 🙏🇻🇪🇺🇸

I'm looking forward to a Venezuelan revolution: OverSimplified video

Here in Colombia we are feeling the damages, people of Venezuela is escaping here asking for jobs or selling things on the public transport, i don't think the people on the comnents (in the USA) can remotly feel all the impacts; you can know the facts but nothing near like the reality (Edit: I made this comment 2 years ago and have no idea that there was so many likes and comments, wow thanks, but some people down below misinterpreted my word, some of you tried to explain better the situation, so, I hope people reading this comment now can learn a little bit more)

I’m a venezuelan in the US, my parents moved to the US right after I was born in Maracaibo. Although i live here in the US with a comfortable life my parents still support the people in Venezuela, we used to send boxes with food and supplies. We still have family there, and we do everything we can. I’m glad people bring attention of what is going our country although there are larger news out there. A todos mis hermanos y hermanas, siguen luchando. Los amo y tengo una esperanza de que todo esto se va a terminar. Gracias/ Thank you 💕💕

as a Venezuelan, thank u so so much for making this,

I've literally never seen Lele Pons discuss or raise awareness on this issue.

The situation in Venezuela breaks my heart.

this is why you don’t let the government run everything

Never trust party with "Democracy" word in party's name.

*Haiti loves you, Venezuela.* Stay strong. Let's keep each other in prayers.

Sad how World of Warcraft gold is litterally worth more than a country's currency...

Chavez: LETS HELP DA POOR Maduro: gimme that money chavez

We are experiencing a second red scare in America. I hope that one day america can finally put people over profit.

Such a sad thing!!! There are hundreds of them hiding in the forest eating only mangoes in my country Trinidad, they come for help, our people say we can't help them, we already have our problems to deal with. I am sadden because what if it were me? Running to Venezuela for help...my kids, my family? I am soooooo sorry. Mi amigo JACKSON n familia are always welcome.

God help Venezuela 🇻🇪 Love from Kenya 🇰🇪

This is what happens when society prevents good honest kids from going to politics and say politics is for cunning bad guys.

Looks just like what’s happening to the USA

I am originally form Venezuela, and let me say that he "spending billions" on healthcare and education might be true on paper, but most of it didn't go to the right places and it was mostly divided among politicians, so very little went to those who needed it. For example, he spend millions on many small apartment complexes we call "urbanizaciones", but most of the projects were left in an unfinished state due to lack of money. SOme of my friends went to Venezuelan public high schools, and I did some social work in public middle schools, and it was very depressing to see that the condition of the school was very bad, and professors were earning next to nothing. Venezuela was already in pretty bad shape when Maduro came to power, it's just that high oil prices were helping cover a lot of the pretty bad stuff that was already happening, but it was literally akin to putting a band aid on a gunshot wound. An example of this can be seen when he made the "bolivar fuerte" the new currency in our country, which he took off three 0s, it didn't help at all as literally inflation just put us back to the same spot a few years later. It is true that he was very charismatic, but he was very unpopular during his last re-election campaign, and most people consider that election to have been rigged as his political party had control over the election process (This was when he went against Capriles). Honestly, Maduro is doing an even worse job than Chavez, and oil prices being low is really not helping him at all, and if we go back further it is the fault of all of us for having allowed corrupt politicians to take power which in turn resulted in the low socio-economic venezuelan class to have been neglected, filled up with anger and resentment that was just waiting for someone like Chavez to come and take advantage of it.

Inflation about to reach 1,000,000% - July 2018.

And people say that Venezuela failed because it was socialist? That has nothing to do with why it failed... The socialist policies that they implemented were actually INCREASING the quality of life for the population. The economic failure came from poor economic decisions of the corrupt authoritarian leadership. Had they diversified their economy, they could have sustainably implemented perhaps even more of those socialist policies. Of course, once that started happening, the US Military Industrial Complex would stage a revolution and sponsor an even more corrupt leader to prevent socialism from ever being able to prove itself. But hey, its in the name of "Freedom"! "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!" says the US Govt. as thousands of Americans starve, and excess grocery food is thrown away and covered in bleach to prevent the impoverished from even stealing their trash.

Why cant you guys tell the real truth of what's actually causing this to happen?

Did any of you saying that "Vox didn't mention how socialism ruined their economy" actually watch the video? They clearly said Chavez spent more than he should on welfare. It feels like people try really hard to be extreme leftists or extreme right and never listen.

I'm from Venezuela and I left the country because of maduro

My country, Lebanon is in an economic crises so similar to Venezuela, we have a huge inflation and our currency is losing it's value daily, electricity, medicine, gasoil.. and litrally anything is in deficit. It's extremely sad

Nothing to do with sanctions and artificially deflating oil prices by saudis to drop the price to hurt vuvuzela? Always the what but never the why.

It's almost as if oil can't save you from everything

God help Venezuela 🇻🇪 Love from the Philippines 🇵🇭

People remember, never trade your freedom for security, you'll end up loosing both

As a young Venezuelan outside of Venezuela, I am quite saddened to see my once rich country turn to turmoil.

God Help Venezuela 🇻🇪 Love From Mexico 🇲🇽

Question for Venezuelans in the comments... when I hear on the media "It is because of socialism that Venezuela is poor" is that true? Or is that just American media trying to oversimplify why the Venezuelan ecomonomy crashed and use the word "socialism" as the cause?

Vox didn’t even cover the impact of socialist policies

This video hardly touches on Hugo Chavez and his impact, it seems to show him in a very positive light when in reality he was the one that started all this through manipulation and the 1999 constituent assembly which wasn't seen as a valid method of rewriting the constitution. Chavismo was not touched on at all and truthfully Maduro only followed on from the corruption left by Chavez. Probably worth another video.

This is so unfortunate. The inflation is unreal. Nobody deserves this. Love from India 🇮🇳❤️

Socialism destroyed Venezuala... It makes me sick seeing some people in the United States standing for socialism.

Whatever collapse Venezuela suffered when this video came out 5 years ago, Maduro is still ruling the country now.

Most oil rich nation on the planet yet doesn’t have one single oil refinery. This is madness and must be by design.

serious questions, why do the soldiers even follow the leader that the majority of the people wanted removed?? They are people and they can think too, so why not?

"everybody wants to rule the world, but not everybody had the skill to do so"

Or in shot: Socialism was once again tried in another country. ---> It had the usual result.

God help our brothers and sisters in Venezuela 🇻🇪 all love & supports from Indonesia 🇮🇩 🙏🏼

Venezuelans: elects socialists to reduce income inequality socialists: *makes everyone equally poor *MISSION FAILED SUCCESSFULLY*

There is SO much missing in this video...

I love how Vox never mentioned Socialism for one of the reasons why Venezuela collapsed.

Even robux is more worthy.

When it showed the protestors dying it really hit home. A few years ago my cousin died protesting and it's hard to watch it happen and to not be able to do anything about it.

I grew up here and it’s so sad to see my family have to leave and it just fall. It’s sad.

Investing in cryptocurrency and forex trade is not a bad idea because it will save you days off in the future.

I'm a little Venezuelan girl. And honestly watching this video breaks my heart, and hurts me in a way I can't even put in words. I think that you explained very well the situation itself, you said everything you had to say,and yes,that's the story behind of the nightmare we're living. I just feel like there's a lot more to say; a lot more of the pain and the frustration of every single venezuelan person out there.:( Living in Venezuela is like a daily challenge,it's so frustrating to see your dreams and your talents just go to waste, it's so sad to see the amount of poor and hopeless young people who are afraid of living their whole life in mediocrity (I' actually one of them) :( I just pray for all my venezuelan people,hoping that one day, we will be a stable,peaceful,happy, and productive society. I'm sorry if i spelled something wrong,my english is not good, I'm just learning:(

Everybody gangsta till the government start printing shitload of money

Socialism turned Venezuela from what used to be the richest country in Latin America to the poorest one. If a decline in oil prices was what caused this downfall, why weren't other oil rich countries affected?

as a Venezuelan, thank u so so much for making this !!

Hold on. Ya telling me the crisis is more complicated than simply shouting "SOCIALISM!!!"? Well wadda know!

Don't forget that Venezuela taxed investors too much so they left the country.

What is the sound effect at 0:44 when they show the news' titles?

Weird to see Vox criticizing the politics of the country whose ideologies they are promoting and advertising in America. Never thought I would see that.

Margaret Thatcher once said that "The trouble with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."

0:50 "Highest inflation in the world" *Zimbabwe wants to know your location*

that moment when u see the largest oil reserves as a sad face, knowing the worst is coming

“His unrestrained spending lead to a growing deficit, which meant all these social programs would be impossible to sustain” sounds eerily familiar to the United States current fiscal policy.

As a Venezuelan, who lives in the United States but family is entirely política refugees, I am glad to see people taking notice of the crisis in my country. I really hope my children can walk the same streets as my family’s home in the future.

It hurts to see a part of the world with such high potential in such a low position. Hope there can be done something for them.

I wish venezuela be able to be strong again and be safe

America is slowly becoming this and it’s terrifying

Stay strong Venezuela 🇨🇴 Love from India 🇮🇳

People keep demonizing Dubai(UAE) for its fast growth thanks to their oil but fail to understand that a country needs good leadership or it will become like Venezuela.

Funny how socialism wasn’t mentioned once

Isn’t socialism great?

And the US media talks about what celebrities ate for lunch

I am from India and after watching this video I literally cried...So much pain . May God bring peace to Venezuela..!!

There's a lot of dictator around the world, but most of them still care about their citizens and make their country advanced and develope. Like Singapore, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Brunei etc. But a country like Venezuela who rich in oil, while their citizens and economy is in really bad shape after ruling for almost a decade, is the worst kind of dictator. This is the reason i hate a dictator in African country more than around the world.

can any body please tell me the description of the y axis from the statistic with the CPI and the GDP per capita

God help Venezuela 🇻🇪 Love from Great Britain 🇬🇧

Wow, they didn’t mention socialism throughout this whole thing.

Socialism did it in just like Cuba.

May we Pray that Venezuela and it's people Will have a better future