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Found on my hard drive [with thanks to Paz Peace for subtitling]. This was from March 2019, when most Western corporate owned media were insisting most stores in Caracas were empty-shelved. At the time, I walked around Caracas noting how most of the shops actually had full shelves. [ ] [] But for skeptics, that wasn't good enough. So, I went with a friend on his motorcycle to Petare, which is generally dubbed the “largest slum in Latin America“, in other words a very poor area, where if there were empty shelves you'd think it would be there. We first went to a central hub, filled with food shops, and then up into the hills where in smaller barrios we still kept seeing tables of produce for sale, signs for chicken, cheese, and stalls with full shelves. This is not to say there is not poverty (thank you Western sanctions and economic war on Venezuela), but to highlight that what the media were screaming was
