“Когда ты узнала, что президента спёрли?” – with this question begins the conversation on the air between Irina Vorobyova and Sergey Sokolov about the loud news and why Venezuela has been living in a state of constant crisis for many years.

Sergey Sokolov shares personal impressions from his trip to Caracas: a country of oil and paradoxes, “two peoples”, fences with barbed wire and bars on windows, favelas and armed collectivos that essentially replace the state on the streets.

In the discussion, we talk about:

– how everyday life is organized in Venezuela
– why attempts to “divide oil wealth” again and again lead to populism
– how criminal structures become part of the authority
– why the elites have left and have no intention of returning
– and what this story means for a world where the rules and boundaries of what is acceptable are being blurred.