It is informative and rational. Unlike what some people here on DU keep posting, it is trying to get at the truth and not make a political statement.

The only way that you can occupy a position in the Venezuelan government today is if you belong to the chavista party, his wife is a counselor in NY, and he will be working for some business (website) that has been mostly funded by the venezuelan government where he intends to stay biased although he is expected to follow some line of message, and the Venezxuelan government does not like it when anyone working for them gets out of line.

The municipal elections were won by the opposition, the margin this guy speaks about is not accurate. Also, it is not the middle and upper-middle class the only one out on the streets, the regime has lost a lot of its support from the poor, I am not sure how this guy can equate that the number of poor has declined when the middle class is disappearing, what used to be middle class is now poor, and what was poor is still poor.

The Venezuelan government has armed thugs and those are the ones you see in the videos riding motorcycles and shooting at people.

The real reasons why there are protests in Venezuela are:

1. Maduro was born in Colombia, educated in La Habana and should not be occupying the presidency, no foreigner can become president in Venezuela.
2. Deosdado Cabello, who is a thief and a criminal, should have taken the presidency when Chavez died in December of 2013, which also makes Maduro's presidency illegitimate.
3. The regime is a dictatorship, all the democratic and socialist talk is just false rhetoric. You cannot be a democratic government when you make up laws and the opposition is not allowed to vote. You cannot be a democracy when you control people's money, when you control if they can go on vacation and limit their purchasing power by not allowing the sales of dollars.
4. People are jailed at home because it has become so dangerous to go out on the street due to the criminals out there who were armed by the government that rob and kill people everyday without impunity. Nine out of ten people I know have been robbed or kidnapped.
5. Basic needs are difficult to find, no medicines, no toilet paper, no food, electricity goes out every day, the infrastructure is in shambles while the government constantly gives money to other countries just to buy their support.
6. Corruption is tenfold since Chavez became president. His family went from poor to one of the wealthiest families in Venezuela, check this out:

LOL. " the criminals out there who were armed by the government that rob and kill people everyday without impunity"

Who makes this up?

And you haven't please do, just make sure you stay alive.

Now, if you want to present some proof of what I said is not true, I will welcome it.

I have family and friends who live there and family that was forced out because of the risks involved with kidnapping, but please offer some proof that I am making it up.