As anti-government demonstrations sweep across Venezuela anger over the country’s economic and political crisis grows.
Shortages of food, medicine and other basic supplies, and an inflation rate thought to have topped 1000%, have left more than 80% of Venezuelans living in poverty.
Recently opposition leaders accused President Nicolas Maduro of mounting a coup against democracy when he tried and failed to abolish the powers of the opposition-controlled National Assembly. The socialist President claims that the United States and other western powers are colluding with domestic enemies of the socialist revolution.
Though foreign journalists are mostly banned from the oil rich nation, Stephen Sackur presents this special edition of HARDtalk on the road from Venezuela.
BBC World News Channel / BBC News Channel
Thursday 13 April 2017
written & presented by
STEPHEN SACKUR
research
ALINA SARANTIS
picture editors
OLLY SINDLE
DAVE O'NEILL
produced, directed & filmed by
IAN O'REILLY
deputy editor
LISA BAXTER
editor
CAREY CLARK
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