The irresponsibility of individuals like Russell Brand who with little or no knowledge of circumstances and socio-political problems like the one Venezuela is going through is a sign that there are always people who believe they are the owners of the truth.
I express all this because of a video he posted on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqs0dUoIUOE
In effect Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world with 18% of the total.
But to minimize the current circumstances to the desire of the oil transnationals and the support of the United States for a possible coup d’état.
It is to ignore the reality of 26 million inhabitants, who have been affected by hyperinflation, food shortages, massive emigration, the neglect that reigns in health centers, as well as the constant failure of basic services, as well as the dismantling of the productive sector, through expropriations, the lack of investment and the abandonment of companies that at one point became the envy of the world, such as PDVSA, CVG and others.
My reflection to all this is to urge people who are curious about the subject to read different sources and not to be blinded by believing that all the media lies, sometimes among the lies can hide a great truth.
Brand was a typical new-agey authoritarian woke leftist for many years, then he adopted the populist right counter-culture which got him more views. He has a large following on social media and has woken many people up to globalist authoritarianism, but his content is pretty shallow and click-baity. Some consider him a leftist agent, but I think he’s just a narcissistic self-promoter/grifter. Not someone to look to for analysis.