For the record, yes, Joanna is taller than me, I'm just standing closer to the camera. Que Chévere pana! Vamos hacer este vaina! GRAB YOUR AREPAS AND WELCOME TO THE "HOT GIRL WITH PROBLEMS" of Latin America, #VENEZUELA!!
31:07 Joanna's face after remembering Maduro's super hero cartoon and action figure just sums up perfectly what goes on in our little venezuelan brains literally everyday.
"Inaugurated in July 2017, the sanctions dictated by Washington transformed the already deep local crisis into what the former American ambassador to the country Mr. William Brownfield described on October 12, 2018 as a “tragedy”. Before adding, calmly: “If we can do something to speed it up, we must do it, knowing that it will have an impact on millions of people who already have difficulty finding food and medicine . . (…) Our objective justifies this severe punishment. »", Le Monde diplomatique (biggest french monthly newspaper worldwide), April 2022
As a Venezuelan and Geographer I am really honored, glad and happy with the episode. This is the most complete, objective, respectful and beautiful descriptive video of my country I have ever watched. Thanks a lot!!! 10/10 ❤🇻🇪
I went to every single state of Venezuela in the space of 4 months last year, and I can tell you that, from the near 80 countries I've been to, it has by far the most impressive, diverse geography I've ever seen.
As a colombian, watching this episode made me smile. Venezuela and Colombia are almost the same culturally. Lots of love to all venezuelans that are struggling now. Ya verán que vienen tiempos mejores. Besos.
Actually Venezuelans are closer culturally to Dominican republic, as Colombians actually come from Galicia and the Basque county instead of The Canaries. Also Before the consolidation of the modern states some could say that the colombian llano was closer to venezuela than Nueva granada itself. The andes mountains seperating venezuela from the most of the colombian population made us pretty distinct. This is why the Arepa was introduced to colombia throught the llanos, as a large part of the colombian llanos used to be venezuelan territory. The language of the Cumangoto tribes people which named the arepa are concentrated in modern day venezuela And the Llano border in colombia
It depends on the region of each country, llaneros from both sides are very similar, gochos are similar to some Andean regions from colombia, same as people from the coast on both sides. We're similar but different at the same time.
And he is the only one born in the Americas who has his name on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris due to his excellent participation in the French Revolution.
He is a unknown Hero in the French History, without his action in the valmy battle, the collation armies would have conquered Paris and ended the Revolution
I've visited Venezuela in April and absolutely loved it! The people are astonishingly nice, even for Latin American standards. I wish them all the best for the future
20:30 Remember when barb said on Indonesia Episode that "Indonesia and Malaysia are kind of like the Colombia and Venezuela of Southeast Asia"? so this is what he meant.
Latino with family all over the continent here who lived 5 years in SEA. the comparison is funny but only that: funny. There's zero things to really compare both subcontinents other than that it's a similar number of states
In Colombia we often forget how important Venezuela was for our history. Yeah, there are problems but most importantly, Venezuelans are nice people that in fact want to “resolver”.
Colombia invented Bolivar square, Venezuela copied it. Also the real grave of Simon Bolivar is in Colombia as well. Venezuela just copies everything off other countries
And I would also say Bolivar's house featured at 8:33 is not in Caracas but in Bogotá (La Quinta de Bolivar) and it's obviously not where he grew up but the place where he lived for few years while he stayed in Colombia... I don't think Katy has been lucky to be in Caracas (or in Bogotá)
I did a trip to Venezuela in May of 2000. Loved the people but couldn’t believe the beauty of the scenery. From the beaches to the mountainous rainforests, Venezuela still is the most beautiful place I’ve traveled to.
So if I'm ever in Venezuela, all I need to do is go around saying, "Ay, vaina vaina vaina, vaina vaina, vaina vaina," and they should understand me just fine!
I went for 2 weeks in 2011. Caracas, Cuidad Bolivar, Canaima & Cumana. Saw things you can only see in Venezuela, changed my life. I came home and quit my job at the time which I hated. I'm nearing retirement and ready to go back to see Angel falls again. Este tiempo, yo puedo hablo Espanol muy Bien ! 🤓
Great video! It was great to have Joanna as a co-host, I love her RU-vid sketches. Much love to our Venezuelan brothers from Canarias 🇮🇨🇻🇪. Hope things get better for all of you.
I was just reading about the upcoming Nintendo Direct rumors and once I was your name next to Venezuela I never clicked on a video so quickly in my life. Been waiting for this moment since 6th Grade and now I’m a Sophomore in high school. It’s finally here 🇻🇪
I was lucky enough to spend 2 weeks in Venezuela in 1986, when it was the most prosperous country in South America. I was in Maracaibo, Maiquitia, Anaco, Barquisimeto, Margarita Island amd back to Maracaibo. I almost got to see Angel Falls but that's another story. I really hope that they get back to being prosperous because I would Love to go back. They were some of the most amazing and beautiful people I've ever met, not to mention the landscape.
I love Venezuelan culture and people, they are so nice !! And of course I love Venezuelans telenovelas (especially the RCTV ones). "La mujer de Judas" definitely the best one !! ¡¡Saludos y gran abrazo a los panas venezolanos desde Brasil !! 🇻🇪 ❤ 🇧🇷
39:12 Thank you for talking about the special bond between venezuelans and canarians. As a canarian myself, I've met so many venezuelans throughout my life, some of whom are friends of mine or extended family members who migrated to Venezuela and came back recently. I think 90% of us have at least one venezuelan relative. P.S: it's great to see Joanna participate in this episode. I've also been following her for years!
The notification came to me when I was listening to Venezuelan music. I love my Venezuelan panas from Argentina, definitely a country I want to visit before dying 🇦🇷❤️🇻🇪
Now that the country is much safer than before and we're not experiencing food and basic product shortages anymore, many foreigners are coming to visit us. If you have a chance, come visit Venezuela because the sights, the food, and the people are amazing, we could ditch the oil and live off tourism and agriculture. Also, happy to have helped with the script for this episode! ♡
I remember being 12 when I started watching this channel in 2016 and patiently waiting for the Venezuela episode. I am now 20 years old and the time has finally arrived
I’m Dominican and we love Venezuela as much as Venezuelan love us. The father of our country died in Venezuela; we’ve been emigrating to each other’s countries for all of our history; our Tainos came from Venezuela, too. Such a bummer you couldn’t be there; it explains why tourism is not as developed as in DR, something I always wondered, because their land has so much potential for it!
I have been waiting 4 years for this episode! I'm venezuelan, currently 10 years outside my country, and now, I'm watching this video in Taiwan. Brought tears to my eyes, so many memories, so much love for my country. Thanks Barb! Y gracias Joanna, les quedó arrechsiima está vaina 😂
As a Colombian, Venezuela is a country that is just so insanely close and familiar to us, its kind of hard to imagine life without them. Obviously, people can get pretty mean on both sides a lot of the time, but I would argue that Venezuela is so fundamental to Colombian culture (and vice versa) that our national identities wouldn't even exist as we know them without each other. We're two of the culturally closest countries in the world, if we're being honest.
I don't think it's because of the immigration. It's mostly because the current "Spain-Spanish" accent was developed quite recently in history, so this change was not taken into account in Latin America, Canary Island and even in some places on the South of Spain.
@@ikarusxv It's funny, cause the modern Received Pronunciation British English accent and man Brits in the 1600s spoke more closely to the American accent today.
Thank you very much for doing this episode. It's a pity you weren't able to visit the country. I just wanted to clarify something: I'm from the Paraguaná Peninsula, and I've never heard it called "Isla Cora," nor have I been able to find any source that says so. The name Paraguaná in the Caquetío language (an indigenous ethnic group that inhabited the area) roughly translates as "garden in the sea." I hope you get to visit Paraguaná one day. It is a beautiful place. Edit: Gochos = people from the Andes, not country folk.
35:57 I think it's worth pointing out the waves that El sistema made in Classical Music. The Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra under Gustavo Dudamel and José Antonio Abreu was one of the best in the world before they changed it to be an actual symphony orchestra, and I know that they tried to replicate this kind of system in various European countries. Musicians from the formal SBYO now play in some of the best orchestras in the world (like for example Edicson Ruiz who's been a member of the Berlin Philharmonic for over 15 years). A lot of the young musicians also participated in the anti government protests in 2017, where at least one of them got killed and quite a few were imprisoned.
Pointing with their lips?! Haha love that. Thank you for this episode! I took notes actually! I am going to talk about some of these things with my Venezuelan friends at dinner next week when we get together.
As a Filipino, I learned that aside from being a former Spanish colony, the thing that we share similarities with Venezuelans is that we also point using our lips and we are obsessed with beauty pageants. Lol this is so amusing. It's like we're like Venezuela's cousins from Asia😅
Man, Im venezuelan and I work with Filipinos in Spain. We also joke about we are far away cousins because we have so much things in common. We share the same spirit my friend
@manuelmesias7706 If you can speak Filipino (which is composed of 30-40% Spanish loan words), then you are basically one of us. I bet you can understand them whenever they speak Filipino. 😉
Filipinos are very similar to Latin Americans in general, with the difference that we do not speak the same language, remember that a large part of our culture and traditions come from Spain.
@@lmk10000 The Riograndenser-Hunsrick community is in fact the largest surviving German diaspora outside of Germany. However, it is also true to say that beyond regions wherein Germans are a majority or a distinct minority, there are many dispersed people of Germanic ancestry,
Actually they forgot many dishes like pastel the chucho, talkary de chivo, polvorosa de pollo, pelao guayanés, chivo en coco, cuajao and other delicious food we have in different regions
Venezuela seems like such a vibrant country with beautiful coasts and theme parks. Caracas especially. And that waterfall is beautiful, Angel Falls. I've heard of Arepas before but didn't know they were Venezuelan food, awesome! I have to try them sometime. Tequeños seems so good as well! Biodiverse animals and plants on top of flat mountains sounds so dope as well! Love from an American and wishing you guys the absolute best, even tho you are going through a crisis, wishing you can pull through, there's always a light at the end of a tunnel ❤
Thank you! Hey but don’t try those tequeños from 7eleven, better get those ones frozen from Walmart and just put them to cook in an air fryer… d e l i c i o u s 🤤
It's pretty safe to say Venezuela is one of the places with the most beautiful women with all their pageant victories. In my opinion I would say Vietnam, Ghana, Ukraine, and Italy are all up there as well.
Do You know in Venezuela we have our own versión of Greek pastitsio mixed with lasagna and we call it "Pasticho"? Yeah! That's our greek and Italian inmigrants heritage. They didn't mentioned it, but Italian community was as big as the Spanish one in Venezuela.
Some things you may have left out of the music section. The Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra was the premier youth orchestra in the aughts. Also conductor Gustavo Dudamel has guest conducted many symphony orchestras around the world. Great work, and i'm a big fan of y'alls work here!
I've been very fortunate to meet a lot of Venezuelans while working as a restaurant server in Houston, TX, can absolutely confirm they are some of the nicest and chillest people I've ever served. I hope I can visit this beautiful country someday 💛💙❤️
I'm Venezuelan and I visited Albania early this year and loved the country. Beautiful landscape, beautiful people, beautiful mosques and churches. Felt like home. I'm Muslim and a citizen of the world 🌎🌍
Here in Brazil we call the "Up" Plateau as Mount Roraima. Love from Brazil (even though some Brazilians don't treat you right) And I remember Joanna! I remember the old videos from Flama! She's amazing!
Thank you Barbs for putting so much effort into your videos! I love to see how you and your friends have so much fun while educating us into knowing the basics and more about world geography
Correction best rapper in history period* Canserbero songs touches philosophy, politics, activism, love, crime, death, and religion. The guy was truly a legend rolling stones named him best rapper in Spanish language history. I don’t think even Eminem or Tupac can surpass him. Greetings from DR 🇩🇴
I’ve been following this channel from the very beginning when episodes were just 10 min packed with info and finally the day has come where I get to watch my home country…I had the hope that by the time this episode was to be aired the Venezuelan dictatorship was going to be part of recent history but sadly it’s still part of our reality! I hope very soon barbs makes an update on this episode explaining the fall of the regime and the wonderful things a free Venezuela can offer to the rest of the world
Friends and family in Venezuela tell me all the time how about 2 years ago virtually all crime stopped, no thiefs, violence, nada. Bars and restaurants filed with Russian, Chinese and Turkish tourist, going to $100 ticket baseball games and parting like crazy So weird than during the same time murder and violence skyrocketed in so many other latam countries. SO WEIRD
Actually Venezuelans are closer culturally to Dominican republic, as Colombians actually come from Galicia and the Basque county instead of The Canaries. Also Before the consolidation of the modern states some could say that the colombian llano was closer to venezuela than Nueva granada itself. The andes mountains seperating venezuela from the most of the colombian population made us pretty distinct. This is why the Arepa was introduced to colombia throught the llanos, as a large part of the colombian llanos used to be venezuelan territory. The language of the Cumangoto tribes people which named the arepa are concentrated in modern day venezuela And the Llano border in colombia
Yeah the origin of the name is from the Cumanagoto language but it's widely accepted that the arepa was consumed by a lot of amerindian tribes long before the Conquista (with little differences from tribe to tribe). It wasn't introduced from Venezuela to Colombia, it was already there before the countries even existed.
Maybe because your Peruvian friend learnt to do arepas from a Venezuelan. Had he learnt to do arepas from a Colombian person, then he would say arepas are from Colombia.
As a spaniard I've known lots of venezolanos throught my whole life, such nice and loving people. In almost every political campaign in Spain we always get bombarded by the far-right with Venezuela this and Venezuela that. All I can hope is for Venezuela to find politicians that it's poeple deserve and care for them no matter the ideology, because venezolanos deserve it. Fuerza Venezuela, besos desde España 🇪🇸❤🇻🇪
@@geografisicaclaro genio, si la mayoria de tierruos se fueron a colombia y peru, en cambio en españa les llego gente mas decente, que creias que iba a ser su opinion con respecto a nosotros, piensa por dios
I'm Spanish and I confirm that the relationship between Canary Islands and Venezuela is *strong* . A Venezuelan came once for the first time to El Hierro (the South-Westest island) and local people asked her _who are you related to?_ Yes: having relatives in the other side of the Atlantic is not that unusual there. Not at all. And I ate Canarian arepas, and I love the _tequeños_ I bought in the supermarket in El Hierro 😋 I guess you get the idea 👈
A major point that was missed in the discussion on El Essequibo is the fact that the largest oil reserve in the world was recently discovered off of its coast. This has ignited territorial claims over who gets to own the oil fields.
Which in my opinion is a ridiculously greedy and disgusting claim on Venezuela’s end. They don’t even know how to manage the copious amounts they already have and are greedy and corrupt. Attempting to take more than half of Guyana’s land and its oil won’t fix ANY of Venezuela’s problems and I’m very happy Guyana has the support of Brazil and USA to keep Venezuela in check. Side note: the PEOPLE of Venezuela don’t care about this issue, they are more focused on social and economic issues, not many people voted to take the land and the results of their referendum were exaggerated and falsified.
I felt you missed the relationships between Venezuela and Brazil. Thousands of venezuelans imigrante to Brazil because of the crisis, and Brazil is also been the mediator of the conflict between Venezuela and Guyana for Essequibo
He forgot some of the best venezuelan singers or musicians like Jose Luis Rodriguez "El Puma", Maria Conchita Alonso, Franco de Vita, Guillermo Davila, Ricardo Montaner and El Sonero del Mundo Oscar D'Leon
As a venezuelan living in Venezuela, I really liked this episode, I'll give it an 80/100 just because some parts where no accurate, but It pretty much gives a good look into my country. Que viva Venezuela mi patria querida! 🇻🇪
@@castlellc481hi Venezuelan Here (living in Venezuela also) I can think of a few: + It’s just impossible to be neutral in trying to explain the economic and social crisis we have been through for the last 11-12 years, since we all know it’s been due to a huge corruption in all government institutions and the establishment of a narco-state dictatorship whose sole purpose is staying in power. +Soccer I think has tbecome the most popular sport in the last few years, and its by far the one that gets the most attention. + USD dollars is the de facto currency used but you still need the local currency, Bolivar, for paying services and there is still a lot of circulation of bolivares. +I doubt that the ethnic chart is accurate, you can tell the % of mestizo population is much higher than that by just going to the most densely populated sectors. I think it would be around %70-75. The data could be wrong because a lot of people claim they are whites but they are actually mestizos of mixed descent. Overall, the video is very accurate and shows the beautiful things abour Venezuela❤
@@flavioy2f sure the really small ones that people blow out of proportions or the ones that they don’t even know what they’re talking about when they try to correct him
We had a lot of colombians moving over to Venezuela because of FARC, they returned with a new found love for arepas and now are claiming it for themselves, we invented it, and Polar commercialized the first industrial corn flour to make them, before that is was a whole ordeal, and it tasted different, the colombians have Arepa de Choclo, that is the Same as a "Cachapa", and that's the original arepa.
Both countries didn't exist when they were first prepared in what today is Colombia (3,000 years ago) and Venezuela (2,800 years ago). That's why I've always thought that arepa wars are useless.
@andres_see No because what the indigenous people of the area made didn't resemble the consistency or flavor of the modern arepa, this is a Venezuelan invention by Empresas Polar, the first company to commercially sell processed corn flour reducing the ridiculous amount of time it took before to make them, this changed the flavor profile of the dish completely. Try Cachapa and that's the old arepa.
That's so wrong on so many levels, I'm Colombian and my grandmother used to make arepas by grinding the corn kernels way before polar was even founded and cachapas are not the original arepas, they are made with sweet corn, look up arepa santandereana, that's what original arepas are supossed to look like.
@@otashigo Sorry plain wrong. Stop trying to steal arepas. Colombians have been going in and out from Venezuela since at least 1928. Looking at your profile picture I can assure your grandma wans't even born before 1954, when arina pan was patented. So think what you want, that doesn't change fact. And "Santander" doesn't even produce corn, how the heck is going the "original" come from a place where people haven't grown corn since the spaniards arrived?
@@roymarron7622 mi grandmother was born before ww1 and it's a tradition that came before she was born, also the oil extraction hadn't even started by that time in Venezuela, and yeah we have corn, my family also grew it.
I would greatly appreciate dividers in the episode that show the different chapters or subsections. Just a recommendation for future episodes. Thank you!
23:02 Here's an interesting, fun little fact. We Indonesians, especially those who lives in Medan City in North Sumatera, are essentially having that "Vaina" thing also! The word is "Apa", which literally means “What” in English and in Indonesia Language, but it could mean everything for Medanese, from subject, verb, object, adjective, nouns, whatever. For example, imagine a situation where somebody brings his broken-down car to a garage to get it fixed by somebody named Eric. Imagine the conversation will goes something like this: (Proper Indonesian): “Halo Paul! Tolong perbaiki mobil saya dong, kemarin rusak. Tapi jangan terlalu kencang nanti pasang baut nya. Nanti komponen nya rusak. (EN translation): “Hey there Paul! Please help me fix my car, it broke down yesterday. But please don’t overtight the screws. It’ll damage the components”. BUT, in Medanese, people will usually says something like this: (Medanese Indonesian): “Woy Apa, tolong kau Apa kan lah dulu Apa ku itu, soalnya Apa dia kemarin. Tapi jangan Apa kali ya, Apa nanti soalnya”. Literal english translation: Hey there, What. Please help me What my What, it What yesterday. But please don’t overWhat it. It’ll get what. See? Crazy, right? BUT Eric, the medanese mechanic, will usually 95% understand the sentence, and of course no further question asked! 😁 Even other Indonesians living out of Medan will almost frequently have a hard time understanding that kind of sentence 🤣 🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩
I think as Colombians we often forget the strong bond between our sister nations like Venezuela and Ecuador (Panama too). We have a lot of things in common.
As a Venezuelan, the episode was very good with one remark… u forgot the almighty CACHAPA!!!! I follow this channel for more than 5 years just waiting for this episode. Thanks barbs, the team and joa
