Do you want to support the Venezuelan Refugees? You can do that here: www.justgiving.com/fundraising/indigo-traveller-venezuela *Just $10 supplies a family of 4 with food for 15 days!* Thank you for supporting the Venezuelan people fleeing from unimaginable hardships.
Please don't donate to these places. Donations end up hurting the economy even more as the people inside the country can't compete with the free things being given out by welfare/donation facilities. Socialism has already ruined their economy enough, don't add on to that.
You have wavois. Caracas was getting very bad , I had been In Valencia on and of and liked spending time there. A few of my friends invited me to go with them to meet friends there, I known two of the people there. It did not take long how dangerous Caracas became. I was going to leave through the Venezuela/Columbia boarder. I changed my mind instantly when the shotting shooting broke out. Farca. Also had Venezuelans aslo. There was a lot of dynamics. A lot of chavistas where clueless about the drug and other agandas going on. Well maybe but it was a damn good thing for me some of my good friends where chavistas. Soy un alaska No es Norteamericano.
The reason Venezuela is in trouble is because the elected government is fighting against the bankers of the Western World, not because it is a dictatorship. The financial crash is due to the U.S. allowing banks to ruin Venezuela so they can control it. It's an ole story that repeats in all countries who fight the CRIMINAL PRIVATE BANKs which are used to control entire nations.
@@dallahan7879 yeah that's not true. What's hurt the economy is lack of leadership, not socialism. What's hurt the economy was basing it entirely on oil, not socialism. What's hurt the economy is a dictator in power who cares more about keeping himself and his cronies fat and happy than actually seeing that his people are cared for. Socialism had little to do with that.
@@IndigoTraveller agreed and love your longer videos that just show the soroundings, peoples and perspectives, would not mind if you made them 45 mins or more!
@Hailey Hedland I’ve seen his vids and they are super interesting and unique but he gives off pervy sex tourist vibes sometimes and his comment section whenever there’s a woman in his videos get weird.
Amen! Since being with my partner who is from Brazil I've learned so much more than what they tell us here in America they are such beautiful loving people from the ones I've met here in Orlando and Tampa Florida so welcoming so consoling
At least his videos in Brazil, in fact, he only reproduced sensationalist stereotypes, in Rio he only showed favelas, in Sao Paulo he just showed addicts and crazy people on the street, nothing that television, major media and films already show.
@@escola83 Its reality though. My partner was hoping to see the beautiful Parts but there's Beauty in both sides and that is not the type of documentation Indigo Traveller does he goes to the harder parts and actually get people to help they need through donations and such anybody can go to a beautiful beach and say hey look how beautiful this is you can find it online if you wish to watch it
My wife is from Brazil. I’m American. I have seen a lot of what your seeing. This is how others live. It changes your perspective of everything. Most people have no idea of what it’s actually like, outside their own city. Thank you for what you do.
Fair play to going to places many people wouldn’t go and showing the stories of different people ! Doing some amazing work and putting out some great content and much appreciated ,keep it up !
Thank you for showing the reality of my country Venezuela to the world, people see the news but doesn't understand how it's really living there, we all left for the same reasons, no present and no future living in my beautiful country, I live in Canada now so you can imagine how far I feel from it, but how close with your videos I feel, thank you for bringing me a little closer, keep it up 🙏🏼
I’m not surprised it’s a Communist country just Cuba do a Cubs video you will see invading other people’s country illegally I don’t think is the solution with covid going around In Trinidad they cross everyday but the Government also deports a lot of them More sides to this story
@@joshsmith7699 Most sides to your lies! Dude, Venezuela was hit with US sanctions! The same with Cuba. You didn't know that? Did the corporate media tell you that?
I'm from Venezuela (And Colombia) and I think there must be a control of people who seek asylum. More than 20 years old of social crisis results in some horrible people. Most of us just want to help our families back home, but there's a small portion who want to replicate their crimes abroad. I only expect the countries fostering Venezuelans to treat them with respect, and sadly, in South America there's two or three countries who have treated us like shit (In Peru, my eight year old cousin was bullied for being Venezuelan. When he told his teachers, they told him he couldn't complain and that his bullies letting him go to school was enough hospitality). I live in Argentina and it's much better. In here, there's also lots Brazilians. They are amazing people with beautiful souls and I'm lucky to call some of them my friends. If Venezuela one day gets back on its feet, we will try to pay all the help Colombia, Brazil, Argentina and other countries have given us.
Acredito que se as coisas melhorarem na Venezuela, seja lá como isso ocorra, 100% dos venezuelanos voltarão ao país deles, inclusive os "indesejáveis".
@@trintaeumdodezdedoismilede4451 Isso espero. Tuda minha familia quer voltar. Mais e muito complexo, porque agora ha venezolanos com duas nacionalidades, criancas nascidas em outro pais. E eles se sentem mas desse outro pais. Meus primos em US nem se quer falam espanhol e adoram o futebol americano.
A grande maioria dos brasileiros são extremamente acolhedores. Você não deve nada a ninguém, se você trabalha, está colaborando com o nosso povo. E se ama meu pais eu a considero uma brasileira.
You're fortunate to have Diego as your traveling companion/guide. He's articulate, laid-back and approachable with people, and trilingual! Portuguese, Spanish and English. I like how he wears the Brazilian footwear of choice- havaianas.
It's a similar situation here in South Africa. Zimbabwe is like Venezuela and South Africa is Brazil. It's crazy to see how as soon as you leave South Africa into Zimbabwe the world around you changes.
@toni kay Many Lebanese made their home in Venezuela. Some of our Lebanese friends returned to Lebanon but suffered greatly with violent unrest there. We wish you and all Lebanese peace and harmony.
@@mohammadreza3627 Yes, but still not so bad like in Venezuela. Ok, you have theocratic dictatorship in your country but in Venezuela you can get kill for ten dollar on the street
as a brazillian the situation in south america makes me so mad, seeing my brothers from venezuela and argentina suffering so much is heartbraking, im glad that even our situation here being bad, we still have life quality
that happens pretty much in all developing countries now. My country Turkey is having a similar situation right now. Unstable politics + one man rule= terrible economy and poverty
@@jonnykaykorn3060 Colombia is "LIGHT YEARS" better than the socialist dicktatorship of Venezuela. Colombia is prospering much better than it was 20 + years ago. Europeans and Americans are vacationing there and like it so much that many are buying apartments and fincas. There is still crime there but I doubt it's any worse than here and FAR less that what we've seen in Portland or Seattle, to name only 2.
@@donfss5088 chile and uruguai are very stable and nice to live for SA standards, colombia and brazil are both prospering (brazil not so much) in a very slow pace and have a lot of criminality and poverty issues, but still far from venezuela, no country here is CLOSE to that situation, argentina is going in that direction, but still not so bad
@@joaofranciscooliveira1821 "Argentina is going in that direction" lol. Argentina is not so well no but it can't be compared to Venezuela. There is full democracy, we can buy products and there is more stability than in Venezuela. We are far from being another Venezuela. And no, I don't support Kirchnerism.
Your editing has got so crisp over the years! As an old fan and also an editor myself, I have to congratulate you on the quality of your work and content. I've watched you videos for so long waiting for a brazilian series because I knew how truly you could capture the different realities of our people. Thank you so much for showing my country in this humain perspective and in such a comprehensive and admirable way. Keep up with the good work! 🇧🇷
That truly means a lot to me, Mikhael! Thanks for noticing the changes in the editing and appreciating a different perspective of the people lives in your incredible country. All the best, mate. Cheers again!
The two new Walmart greeters are both Venezuelans who just got here. They are both engineers back in Caracas but here in USA they have to start all over. However, both say they are glad they got out...it's pretty bad there now they said.
Good to see Lenny back in the videos! I actually met up with Lenny in Buenos Aires in February 2020 and we had some corona beers at a bar ( coincidently right before corona virus came to be ) and we chatted about Nic’s Venezuelan series. It was super interesting. These days Lenny is a street photographer in BA, check his Instagram out for some incredible photos. He’s as cool in person as he is in Nic’s series.
@@IndigoTraveller you should do an interview with Lenny now in Argentina, to see how a Venezuelan immigrant have to restart all his live after being pushed to leave his own land
Join me on this journey to the Venezuelan Border. If you want to see more of what it is like inside Venezuela, you can watch my *Venezuela Series* here: ru-vid.com/group/PLN0FlxE6vY5DStG-4au_6WRpE27l31rNR Thank you for watching 🇻🇪
there is something interesting going on in the Closed Captioning. It appears that the system is programmed to filter out an entire vocabulary of negative words. For example, the interview with the shopkeeper,. starting at 17:00. Turn on CC and you will notice that the words kill, thief, thieves, criminals, rob, robber, robbery, refugees, murders, murderers, etc. What is accomplished by this? The words are spoken opening in BOTH languages, yet the English translation is a blank line to confirm the word is removed.
It's probably because RU-vid/Google is an US corporation and the US is obsessed with censoring swearwords from the public (e.g. all the censored music and tv shows where 'bad' words are beeped out). Meanwhile publicly glorifying death, violence, guns and sexualizing the fuck out of every female all seems perfectly acceptable. All while pretending to be very religious though. It's weird.
Nick good brother. I started “traveling” with you several years ago. My earliest impression was: “Where is this young Kiwi taking us?” Not so much relative to place (that part was obvious!), but relative to life perspective. This is now also obvious. Good man, Nick! It has been very eye and heart opening voyaging through the continents with you. Be blessed and travel on! Whenever you get to Bali, an open door and a couple of friends will welcome you and any companion. (It’s a great place to chill between the struggles.)
I came across this channel while being high as hell and to be honest, I really don’t regret it one bit. High or not this is the content that’s worth watching at any moment of the day. Ive woken up at 4am and put this on. So interesting! Gained a sub my friend! 💯
You sound like me as a teenager 😂. I use to always discover crazy interesting channels whil I was high. I don’t do it anymore but enjoy your day my friend.
Colombian cocaine farmers and the FARC guerrilla, Maduro, ELN guerrilla appreciate your patronizing their better merchandise. Maduro also export other type of junk to the States.
It would be really interest to see you being at “las Villas” which are like the Argentinian Favelas. If you ever have the opportunity to go to Argentina it would be super interesting to see that!
I remember your videos from Venezuela and the food project many of us participated in. Love seeing how people are actually living and what THEY think about the situation, not necessarily what media portrays. Thanks Nick!
Gracias a los dos por ese excelente trabajo, como venezolana residente en Brasil me he sentido valorada y muy querida por este hermoso país. Es cierto que hay persona con mañas inclusive enviadas por el mismo gobierno de Maduro para generar conflictos, pero los BUENOS SOMOS MÁS.
I was expecting that little boy to start singing like he did in the other Venezuela videos. I had actually got sick of hearing him sing in the other videos, but this time I found myself missing him . . . go figure. Great, great video.
Of course not? Just the border town of Pacaraima used to be more connected to Venezuela, now the inflow of migrants and refugees has affected the whole state but it didn't use to be like that.
I am from Malaysia, have been following Nic's journey in Brazil since January 2021. I feel terrible to know about the current situation in Venezuela. I hope the condition will be better soon. We, in Malaysia, used to watch Venezuelan telenovelas 20 years ago.
I’ve been following you ever since you made a video about my country - Lithuania. It is amazing how much you have achieved and how much you have developed! All the best and I am looking forward for more interesting videos.
This is easily the best travel channel in the world. It's real, it's independent, it's cool, it's high quality, it's all the good things and more. Nick is the best! What a great human being. I love how he always is close to the people, the reality of the place but he has no prejudice, he doesn't insert politics into his work. Brazil is too big for just 4 episodes. You gotta come back and explore more of the Midwest, southeast and southern regions of Brazil.
Another one of the super exciting video that I couldn’t wait to watch. Am so proud of you my brother. Your a legend to me. I hope one day I may atleast be like you. You inspire me a lot, you also inspired me to start a channel and now it’s growing very fast thanks a lot men. Be blessed always I hope your fans may also atleast think of supporting me too
in 19:08 as a brazlian I'll say what I think about this, He said we should welcome them and give them the best oportunities, I agree, but we also have to filter who comes here, and this town has it's border open (legal/illegaly) and no filtering whatsoever, You can't just say '' we should be welcoming them '' that's not how the world works buddy, some filtering is needed, we don't want bad ones coming in, only good ones.
Agree. His statements are so self serving. People love to ignore the harsh realities to falsely elevate themselves. There's a lot of people like that. And they usually move to other regions when the result of their policies make living too dangerous.
Obrigado! My partner is from Fortaleza north Brazil. Such amazing people! We're watching your generous travels, donations and documentation of your beautiful travels. Such amazing people ive learned. Just got home from Brazilian church here in Tampa Florida. 👏🙏💖
Awesome video as always. This is probably my favorite from your Brazil series so far. It's awesome to see you focusing on a border town given the current situation. Keep up the good work!
It is really hard to make a comment and don’t be radical after what the store owner said, but I want to reflect my opinion in history. Venezuela literally open its door to immigration. We never care about where you were coming from. For us immigrants are synonymous of development, culture richness. Even in the worse moments of some countries history like Colombia in the 80’s with the FARC conflict, we never said take them back. We just need help. This is our bad moment in our own history and we need help of our fellows. Thank you so much for all the job you do showing the reality. Thank you!
its also very easy to comment welcome everyone when we are at a safer place/city like most rich libtards. I support whoever local opinion when they feel their life are getting unsafe. The key thing to welcome immigration is government/police support plus enough economic growth to have new jobs to settle down. Brazil is basically shit too to handle it. Argument like saying the 80s to 90s on countries like USA, Venezuela, etc was built on immigration is outdated. Its different times now. In the past there is lower population, bigger growth, lesser inflation, its like the golden age for growth. Those who failed to sustain that growth and become poor now is due to shit government or lazy people due to social policies spoonfeeding. Now everywhere is facing high population, massive inflation, global competition and argument is still we should welcome immigration? Stats are totally different now and thinking should change.
The problems that the Columbians had with farc is not the same thing that Venisuela is currently dealing! So to equate the two is morally wrong and intellectually dishonest. Venisuela's problem was democratically self inflicted. So if they voted for chavez or the bus driver then they SHOULD be sent back to live in the problems THEY created.
Curious to know what your absolute favorite country in the world is including your home country, though that's probably an impossible question to answer. Beautiful videos, beautiful perspectives.
You see what socialism and communism can do in practice? We were the richest country in South America and now we're have more people leaving Venezuela than in Syria, and Syria it's in war!!! Don't buy this crap ideologies, teach our young people about the Venezuela case, it's incredible to see how many young people believe in these ideologies but they don't see how a whole country can died from it
@Juliano FG wanna be socialist but america is interfering and want's to make capitalism out of Venezuela. everywhere where socialism wants to thrive, americans don't allow it because americans will see how good socialism is and will start asking for it in their own country
@Mike Paul the US military is very socialist. Education, food, healthcare, housing, its all paid for by the government. Socialism is good for the military, but not for you?
as a venezuelan i just want to tell you thank you so much for the support,i don't see still the day that this nightmare get over and i might come back to my country,greetings from Costa Rica
I don't understand something: the guy selling burgers is clearly making more than 6$ a month.. Why are people even working for 6$ a month instead of starting their own burger shop or other?
In order for regular people to get ahead, a stable society is needed. In poor/unsafe places there is no credit, so people cannot borrow money to start a business, and worse yet, saving money is hard because people are subject to being robbed or being forced to pay for protections by thieves and even by the police. In these places, many people are self employed and sell whatever they can, but they are selling a limited amount of merchandise to other poor people and earn just a few cents on the few items that they have to sell which they use to survive. Life is extremely difficult for poor people in third world countries and nothing can really be done to help them long term as long as their authorities are corrupt.
@@Andreas4696 Im a business owner actually, but was just curious to get more information about why its so hard in venezuella. The government is probably part of the reason, as well as the currency. But no one ever explained it in details in video. Like they could start using another currency. Produce their own things and sell to each other. Or even find a public internet and go online, its not hard to make more than 6$ a month online.
@@YouSoCute2000 I'm also from Cali, San Fransisco to be exact, sure we've issues such as i405 and homelessness but we're not anything like Venezuela, a failed broken country
17:05 This is the same what Castro did in 1980, the Mariel Boatlift. He allowed Cubans to emigrate to the US but opened up the prisons and insane asylums and let the inmates travel with the refugees. As is fsmously depicted in the movie Scarface. Maduro is taking cues from Castro's playbook.
It would be nice if you put subtitles instead of having your friend translate. At 17:10 he said most people on the Street were thieves(not all Venezuelans). When you asked what would be the solution, he said a Federal intervention. Basically, every word that the store owner said wasn't translated and every word your friend said wasn't heard...
I never thought you would go again to Venezuela, but I’m glad you did! It’s an update on my country’s current situation. I’m fan of your work! Be safe.
why in the english subtitles, the word refugee is censored? i could understand if it was drugs, death, cartel and etc...but refugee is not a “bad” word...
Tragic to see what’s happened to Venezuela. My sister lived there for 6 years during the 80s when there was a large prosperous middle class. Oil had been extremely good to the Venezuelan people but the appalling Maduro thugs have destroyed the country and funneled billions into their personal accounts.
Yeah the crippling economic sanctions where they cant even import medicine and the US trying to overthrow the government since 20 years while London seized the countrys gold reserves have surely NOTHING to do with it.
@@captainfreedom3649 Your dictator maduro sent everything to Russia including gold! Each country who became Russian friendly body, sooner or later becomes poor, that’s Cuba, N. Korea, Combodja, Angola, Zimbabve, former soviet union countries and yours too!!
I would never expect that you've been visiting Boa Vista/RR and the BRA/VE border area. I was born in Boa Vista and grew up visiting places around the border like Uiramutã, Pacaraima and Santa Helena. At that time things were really nice and chilled, it was always a pleasure to stay in the area. I actualy visited this church at 11:43 hahaha. I moved to Natal/RN in 2004 and never got back to Boa Vista since then. I feel really sad for the xenofobic behavior people been expressing :,( . God bless you all
it´s the same tension that would be in any close border, if it´s close it´s ilegal to past, try to pass the us border with out permition and see what happends, say no more....
Happens nothing, you pay for traffickers and cross the border. But also, who in the hell would like to sneak into Venezuela, where people try to escape from...
My father is from brazil and i cant wait to go there one day and this brazil trip of yours has been very entertaining for me. He is from the country side where there is not that much violence when compared to Rio and Sao Paulo, and i couldn't imagine how beautiful it is
He was being realistic. They chose socialism and got what they wanted. We Brazilians shouldn't have to pay the bill for it. Did you see the Caracas subway? It is not free because of the lack of employees as they said, it is free because it was built with Brazilian tax payer money and Venezuela never paid us back.
Gracias for creating a huge advocacy mi país Venezuela. Mi familia came from Maracay. Haven't been in the country almost a decade. Dios te bendiga my homeland💜
This is crazily sad. Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world. Even more than Saudi and the rest of the Middle East countries. Look at the wealth they have there and Venezuela has even more.
Yes very sad. I have traveled around most of the Middle East countries with work and seen the lifestyle the majority of them lead. It really is unbelievable and Venezuela has more oil than most of them added together.
I love how the guy that speaks perfect English probably making good money and likely has a good job, says "I think we should be welcoming them and provide them with opportunities...", of course is such a nice thing to say when you dont live on the border towns, not affected but the influx of mostly good but also some bad people...We call these people in the US a virtuous snowflake, always virtual signaling that they are better and know better
Agree with the guy at the end. They won’t ever learn from their mistakes as a people and grow if they don’t go through the consequences. Even worse they’ll replicate the same situation where they flee because they never learned.
@@movement2contact They had reliable electricity powered by their fossil fuels turn into rolling blackouts way before the sanctions. What apology do you have for that?
