The War on Democracy Page #3

are now paid as workers

(Speaking Spanish)

There is now close too full literacy

thanks too classes like this

catering too those like Mavis Mendez, aged 95

now reading and writing for the first time

This means an enormous amount to us,

The only thing I wish is that I was younger

so that I could keep learning more,

We never had a government

that looked after the poor before,

or taught us to read and write,

There was none of that before,

I think its never too late to better yourself,

(Barks)

This is East Caracas, home too some of

the wealthiest people on earth

and what they call here the middle class

I dropped in on John Vink

who agreed too show me around

his grand house

Wow, this is such a striking house,

- Thank you,

- My goodness,

- Thank you,

- Yes,

You've been here long, have you?

This is the family home?

My family home, We grew up here,

John Vink has travelled the world

collecting objects d'art

Have you collected all the silverware?

- The chandelier, is that,,,

- Yes, That one I brought from Spain,

Wow,

This is a collection of Delft Blue,

I have them over there so they don't break.

This is from Peru, this silver,

Mm,

- But you're thinking of leaving,

- Yes,

Why is that?

Well, the situation of the country,

It's getting day by day worse, so, um.,,

- In what way?

- In a political way,

We thought that this gentleman

that's now in power,

that he would change the whole situation,

- because it was a mess,

- Yeah,

But now it's a whole mess,

John Vink's view is echoed

by Venezuela's powerful media

Mostly privately owned, it combines banality

with hard-line anti-Chavez politics

Coming up, more dangers

in the latest official decisions,

Venezuela is moving towards

a very similar regime

to that which prevails in Cuba,

For the government, what 21st-century socialism

means is simple -

the total control of society by the state,

A number of journalists now say,

"Well, there is censorship,"

they have been censored,

How can that be?

They speak. out every morning,

They have their shows every day,

They speak. out constantly

against the government every day,

How can they say this?

I don't know if you have seen

the programs that they have,

Anybody that comes to Venezuela

and spends two days looking at these channels,

knows there is no censorship in Venezuela,

You just have to sit down

and see those opinion programs

between six and eight in the morning,

Hugo is evolving from a fascist to a Nazi,

What's the difference

between a Nazi and a fascist?

Basically, Nazis murder people,

I don't think in any part of the world

you hear the things that they say

about President Chavez, about his cabinet,

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