Venezuela – Corruption, mismanagement and abandoned children | DW Documentary

Corruption and mismanagement have turned Venezuela into a failed state. According to the UN, by November 2023, more than seven million people had fled the country. Some one million children were left behind, alone.

The film shows the fate of two single mothers who do everything they can to get by, taking care of themselves and their children. In Maracaibo’s Santa Rosa de Agua district, health care has collapsed and children are starving. Carolina has set up a foundation to combat child malnutrition. Because there is so much violence in Santa Rosa, Carolina has placed her own daughter in a home in a safer part of the city. The home is an oasis in the midst of chaos. But many of the children here have not seen their parents for years and are severely traumatized.

Most people in the Santa Rosa district survive by resorting to violence, crime, prostitution and begging. “I’ve had to do so much for my children,” says Kiara. “Selling drugs, stealing, prostituting myself. Everything a woman can do for her children.” Her eldest son Yorbenis is 14 and has already joined a gang.

Out of desperation, Kiara decides to leave the country for Colombia. She takes her two youngest children with her, while Yorbenis stays behind alone. Now she’s afraid that he’ll be murdered in her absence.

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42 comments

  3. Education is really the only answer here. Of course the world could send rice and even medical care, but without education these people will never be able to do better. I hate to think what this is doing to the children there. Nothing good is coming out of this.

  5. For the ones who know, that's not Communism, or anything closer along those lines…now, the way such government "operates" is very similar in methods, as Hezbollah when it comes to exploiting venues for income to meet their goals…both, Venezuelan government and Hezbollah, are liars…they don't care about people…they're mercenaries…

  6. The best showcase of the fallacy of socialism. The communist countries that survived today are more capitalist than the democracies. The latter even has more social programs than the communists because it gives the politicians votes. And yet, these people are manipulated to point blame to the outside world when their misfortune is the direct doing of their own government. As they say, if you cannot beat them, join them. But Venezuela, or should I say, their government, chose to isolate themselves and fight an economic and political battle they will never win, because that is the only way they can stay in power for as long as they can.

  9. Being from Latin America I must say that what people and DW refuse to acknowledge is that the people elected a socialist government with Maduro. Now, theyhave an equally miserable society with a tiny marxist elite that hold most of the wealth. The true face of socialism that inheritly leads to dictatorships. People elected socialism and they got true socialism. Sad but true.

  10. Philippines might also have become like Venezuela everything here are worst at all levels especially that the corrupt and brutal families in our politics already have gain control again the nation 10 years from now.

  11. No entiendo a las mujeres sabe q no hay dinero ni vida en Venezuela no se por q se embaraza y tener 5 hijos para después no poderlos mantener

  12. The US is the most corrupt country in the world because it is the only one that kills millions in fake wars, coups, and regime change.
    The US is the only one with 25% of the world's incarcerated population and a lot of this 25% are children and teens, and in the US several kids and adults have only one meal a day since 2008.
    The US traps the world in a financial scheme making several countries dependent on the dollar, even with the massive printing of dollars since 2018 a lot of those dollars don't even go out of the US and a lot of countries are facing a shortage of dollars and that has not been enough they put sanctions on everyone they want, and these sanctions have costs (billions) also for the US and never to forget, that have a clear mismanagement by having the biggest debts in the world 35 Trillions and a deficit that can cause a default more sooner than later.
    And every time the US creates a global crisis they always starts a war directly or a proxy war with countries that have a lot of natural resources in order to steal every single natural resource from these countries and give them to big private companies and if these countries try to nationalize their resources they immediately face sanctions, embargos, coups or regime change.

  13. Why are they abusing the children by making them wear masks and telling them someone was tortured to death for their sins? 🤔 That's sick. 🤢

  14. My step mother and her family are Venezuelan. This breaks my heart. I have visited several times back in the late 90's or early aughts. A beautiful country and a beautiful people.

  16. Venezuela was a wealthy beautifull country until America destabilized and corrupted it. I am an American and am so sorry.

  17. Kiara is almost skin and bones herself. Tragic that her son is growing up to become a thug or a criminal but she can't do anything about it. Knowing how the cops operate, he will not live long enough.

  21. Religion is always fulled by ignorance and poverty. It is shameful watching these images. Some if not all, countries in south america has the main problem in corruption at its core. Left, right policies are just tones of color….. our course is deeper

  25. Hugo Chávez is to blame for all of this, he and everyone who voted for him between 1998-2013, who voted for Chavismo, is an accomplice to everything. Venezuela is where it is today because of Chávez and his voters! So much so that they said that Venezuela would not be Cuba, and now it has become Cuba. The worst thing is that our neighboring countries (like my country, Brazil) are paying for something that we are not to blame for or responsible for. Several Venezuelans are now arriving in our countries, which in some regions do not even have the conditions to take care of their own citizens. We Brazilians, Colombians, Ecuadorians, Chileans do not deserve this! 😭

  26. Kamala thinks it’s horrible for the US to separate illegal families, but these people do it to their own kids!
    And should every prisoner be released? They’re separated from their children! I mean let’s maintain equality, right?

  29. As a Chinese, I feel really shameful for the evil Chinese government to support the Venezuelan dictatorship. Without the support from China and Russia, the Venezuelan government would not be here now. It is ridiculous to see comments in this channel to criticize the US. Without the USA, Colombia would be another Venezuela and Poland would be another Belarus. I have been to 52 countries and see in my own eyes that countries which are friends with the US in general have a higher living standard than those who supported by China and Russia.

  32. We as an animal we have two options live with suffering or believe, loving someone to reduce the conscious of suffering, but sometimes we have an only one option live suffering.
    My god bless you
    Thanks to DW
    Love from a great nation India

  34. I love your documentaries but on this one I wish you included more people from different parts of Venezuela because you can find such a family anywhere including developed countries (not that it's okay but I just found it so narrow to represent a whole country). Also, it's not necessarily about children

  39. I went there in 1990 …. that place was AWFUL ! it had nice beaches but hardly "the best" … it looked dilapidated and backwards …. and that was before Chavez. Can't help but feel sorry for them …. living on a memory of something that didn't exist !

  41. Sanctions made post Venezuela supported Iran are still costing its economy and people
    Lets do something for the people atleast
    The leader was at fault shouldn't let the people suffer

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