It's got more oil than any country on the planet, but its people eat garbage and gangsters rule.

Defying a media ban, we go undercover in the one-time socialist idyll of Venezuela.

Watch Foreign Correspondent on iview: http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/fore...

SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/ABCNEWSAUS

About Foreign Correspondent:
Foreign Correspondent is the prime-time international public affairs program on Australia's national broadcaster, ABC-TV. We produce half-hour duration in-depth reports for broadcast across the ABC's television channels and digital platforms. Since 1992, our teams have journeyed to more than 170 countries to report on war, natural calamity and social and political upheaval – through the eyes of the people at the heart of it all.

Connect with Foreign Correspondent:
Like Foreign on Facebook:   / abcforeigncorrespondent  
Follow Foreign on Twitter:   / foreignofficial  

Contributions may be removed if they violate ABC’s Online Terms of Use http://www.abc.net.au/conditions.htm (Section 3). This is an official Australian Broadcasting Corporation YouTube channel