Oct 6, 2026 · 23 min · 9 segments
Episode 26 | As Venezuelans searched for food in the garbage, Nicolás Maduro enjoyed a luxury steak dinner abroad. After crushing the protests of 2017, his regime tightened its grip on power while…
In the video, he stands over a thick cut of meat for none other than Nicolas Maduro and his wife Celia Flores.
The video quickly goes viral, leading to a rupture of outrage online.
Back in Venezuela, people watched as their president was served an expensive steak while they starved.
Later in the video, Maluro's seen smoking a cigar after enjoying his meal.
By then, families had spent years cutting meals and watching their children grow thinner.
People were literally searching through the garbage outside restaurants, desperate to find anything to eat.
Maluro, meanwhile, was enjoying a luxury meal.
There was something impossibly cruel about this scene.
The president of a country consumed by hunger allowing himself to be filmed at a luxury restaurant, untroubled by the contrast.
A government that had called itself socialist had presided over the destruction of its people's livelihoods.
A revolution that claimed to defend the poor coerced them with food boxes.
And the men and women responsible continued to live as though the catastrophe that they created didn't exist.
In the video, he stands over a thick cut of meat for none other than Nicolas Maduro and his wife Celia Flores.
The video quickly goes viral, leading to a rupture of outrage online.
Back in Venezuela, people watched as their president was served an expensive steak while they starved.
Later in the video, Maluro's seen smoking a cigar after enjoying his meal.
By then, families had spent years cutting meals and watching their children grow thinner.
People were literally searching through the garbage outside restaurants, desperate to find anything to eat.
Maluro, meanwhile, was enjoying a luxury meal.
There was something impossibly cruel about this scene.
The president of a country consumed by hunger allowing himself to be filmed at a luxury restaurant, untroubled by the contrast.
A government that had called itself socialist had presided over the destruction of its people's livelihoods.
A revolution that claimed to defend the poor coerced them with food boxes.
And the men and women responsible continued to live as though the catastrophe that they created didn't exist.
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