Hey guys, it's Nate, aka The Photo Count, and welcome back to the channel. LaLiga Team and Season Cards have been so tough to pack from upgrade packs, 81x11s, and basically everything else. But today that changes because we are all getting a LaLiga Tots card today from the guaranteed Tots SBC, right? That's the Wednesday SBC that we always expect, the mainly guaranteed Tots pack. And I want to take a look at what that SBC might do to the market, how much it might cost, and will we have an opportunity to invest in those LaLiga Tots cards Will they go up after the SBC today as we've commonly seen, or do we even want to try to buy them unless it's just something for your team? So we'll take a look at that, and of course, SBC fodder, which is literally like a glitch for coins right now in this game. Every single day fodder is tradeable, and it's buyable and flippable during the day. So I want to talk about that in this video, and of course more League 1 Team of the Season leaks have been put out there as well. So we're going to take a look at all that and more. If you're excited for the video today, drop a thumbs up and subscribe if you're new. Let's start with yesterday's content, as we normally do, just really quick. Yesterday was a pretty quiet day. We had the Roberto Carlos Prime SBC. Now, this SBC is arguably good value. This is like a 300,000 coin icon card just about a week ago, two-star week foot at this time of the year. It just doesn't quite cut it. And of course, he does have a better version than is on the market, the trophy Titans that does have the five-star skill. So, albeit not the best version of Roberto Carlos, this SBC is only just above 200k. So if that's a card you want to get into your ultimate team, it's not going to break the bank for you to do so. We also had the NLS Guaranteed yesterday, which I think I did it and I got, oh, the left back. Kai Wagner almost thought I had Mukhtar, got trolled by the Germany flag, but it was pretty cheap to do. I mean, 20,000 coins for a gamble at one of those top cards if you hit Vela, Almada, or if you hit Mukhtar, you're super, super happy. But apart from that, and of course, the normal SBC refreshers like the 81 times 11 and that stuff, refreshing yesterday, pretty quiet day. We had a UCL final kit as well. EA was super nice and sent me one of those. I have one in person and it's actually really sick. Just you can buy those on the UEFA website as well if you're interested in those. So in game, a little bit expensive though, but it does look pretty sick. So I do want to take a look through what's going down today on this game, right? It was a slow day yesterday. Let's get right into today. The pack weight continues to be pretty bad. Now I'm building upgrade packs. As you can see, I've got a couple of gold cards here from buying them. I'm in the middle of buying gold rares to do more upgrade packs today, but the real SBC we're all looking for today is our guaranteed chance at packing a La Liga team of the season card. And I just lost my link here. Let's do La Liga and search this up. La Liga Tots upgrade SBC last year was 121,000 coins to complete. Now it was only one squad, which is again different from what they've been doing this year. They've been doing a two squad set up for the requirements this year. Last year it was one team of the season player required with an 87 rated squad and that came out to about 120,000 coins. Now the past couple of weeks we've seen like the Bundesliga Tots upgrade and stuff like that that have required two squads, right? Last week I think it was like 83 or 84 and 86 for the Bundesliga Tots upgrade. I would imagine just like we had with Bundesliga team this season, we have a pretty expensive team, right? We got a 3 mil Griezmann, a 4 mil Benzema, a 7 or 6 mil Vinny. Still a 700,000 coin Leventowski, 2 million coin Ettermil Tau. Very expensive side still as we've been talking about all week long. I can't imagine that this SBC is going to be as cheap as last year. I think it's going to end up being probably around 100 to 150,000 coins for this La Liga guaranteed today. How could you prepare for that? I think it's pretty simple. Just as we've been preparing every single day for the past couple of days, anything between 83s and 86s is because if they do have a two-squad requirement inside of that SBC today, you're probably going to need a lower tier squad like an 83 or 84 and you're probably going to need a middle tier squad like an 86 or an 87 rated squad and then probably a team in the season requirement as a part of that as well. Now the cheapest Tots cards in this market are still dirt cheap and they're still like 18,000, 19,000 coins for all Tots cards. Probably not going to move that much today, but I do believe they would be required from the highest rated squad of the Bundesliga Guarantee. So I wouldn't necessarily invest in those right now for a rise today. I would probably invest in the fodder. And again, guys, fodder continues to be the best place to invest and trade right now on this game. Look at this, right? Last night, we were talking about 82s buying them at like 750 to 800 and they were going to go to 1.2K. That is exactly what they did. All these guys went back up to 1.1 to 1.2K yesterday. 84s were like six and a half thousand coins. They're back down to 5K. And for now, basically until Friday, this is probably your last chance in the next two days. If you want to stock up on some fodder for maybe an SBC that's going to come out on Thursday, like another 81 times 11 today and then tomorrow for LaLiga or if there's any other player species you're working on, your fodder is probably going to be at its lowest early today. And then it probably will not drop as low tomorrow on Wednesday into Thursday because you don't have the footchamps rewards. You got the vision rivals rewards, which might impact prices a little bit. But these 85s are back down here at 8.2K. This one just got updated to be 8.6. But a lot of these guys are like 8.1, 8.2. Like that's very, very low for these 85s. The 84s are low again. The 83s are low again. So I would do a bit of a club stock. I'm going to go ahead and do a club stock and also buy some gold rares to go and do some SBCs because I think these prices are really cheap. Now, the one thing I'll tell you is if you're investing in fodder to do a investment and not to like just put cards in your club, I would not buy the fodder cards from LaLiga. One thing we noticed yesterday is that the LaLiga cards, they don't go up as much, right? Because that's what everybody already has in their club. So that's why I'm looking at cards that are not from LaLiga. I'm looking at like Bundesliga Jan Summer right here to put that in my club. Jamie Varding going to put in the club, right? Those are the players I'm going to put in also for an investment purpose. Those are the ones that are probably going to go up more because less people have them just sitting around in their clubs because everybody's doing the LaLiga upgrades right now and getting the LaLiga fodder. So that's what I would say to do if you're clubstocking some fodder today. And again, I think I would focus on like the 84s and the 85s. You know 84s are going to be in demand because of the SBCs, like the 81 times 11 requirement of the 84s. But then the 85s and 86s could go up more today, depending on the squad rating and requirement of that higher tier squad if they do make it a two segmented SBC today. Now, let's talk more about actual players on the market, right? That's enough about fodder. This LaLiga team of the season, guys, still is very, very expensive. Now, some prices have come down a little bit. I'm seeing 11, I'll see you for the first time under 700K. He's 690,000 coins right now. This is why this is still inside of that window that I talked about all the end of last week and the early part of this week as well. I was not going to trade with any of these LaLiga Tots cards or buy them because I knew this is the situation we were going to be having. It's just a slight drop in these cards. Some of the lower tier ones have actually dropped off a good amount. Balday is 120K. He was 150K just a couple of days ago. So he's getting commonly packed from LaLiga upgrades if people are hitting blues. They're hitting Balday from 8111s as well. So he's kind of down in price. This is the type of card that's probably going to go a little bit lower today. Now, you think about the top tier. You think about the more expensive guys, like a Kunde, Pedri, Militão, the more rare guys that very few of us are going to be getting from our guaranteed LaLiga team this season's pack today. Would it be a time to invest in any of these? Put it in your club. Put it in your team for a rise after today. Guys, honestly, I would wait until the pack drops, see what the requirement is, and if there's anything that you just want to buy for your team and it's one of the top tier, more rare guys like Benzema, Vinny, Griezmann, you know, Pedri, Militão, Kunde, Eurente and Valverde. Yeah, maybe you could buy it then. But I just think that with how expensive these cards are, and again, how crazy the League One team this season leaks and the hype starting to build up is with that, I think I would stay away. Honestly, even if it's a card you want for this weekend's weekend league, I would maybe take the risk that these cards would end up being lower on Friday with all the build up and hype for League One and maybe even on Saturday if you're not going to start your weekend league until then. I would guess that some of these cards are going to be lower than they are right now just because so many of them are so expensive and League One looks like it's going to be really high. So that's a gamble you kind of have to decide and make on your own decision right there. But I mean, some of these guys are still very overpriced, in my opinion, and I personally will probably not be trading with many or any of these guys today. Unless I see some big drop offs heading into the SBC today, I'm going to be very, very careful with messing around with these guys. I mean, Kunde is one who I would be interested in trading in because he's very rare. But still, to me, this is too expensive. Knowing a Campemba flashback is on the horizon does not make me want to try to trade with that card even in the short term. So just be very, very careful with loud League of Tops cards today because of that, I guess, impending nature of the League One team this season. Now, the League One leagues are continuing and even today, one thing we have to watch out for is a loading screen. That is certainly something we have to watch out for today because that has actually dropped the last two Wednesdays on this game. We have had a loading screen for the next week of upcoming team of the season, kind of showcasing a few skill move and week foot upgrades on a couple of the cards that are coming. Now, speaking of a couple of the cards that are coming, we have some confirmed leaks, right? We kind of are going to split the leaks up into the conversation today between two different things, right? We've got the confirmed leaks, our guys that are really confirmed leakers that usually get stuff right and then some of the sus leaks, right? Stuff that we don't know and can't really trust in 100% about part of it might be right, right? It's tough to distinguish between the stuff, but we kind of know like our good leakers like FIFA U team, foot sheriff, FIFA Romania, those guys are pretty reliable, but there's a couple others that are not. Now, this isn't a surprise, right? Big names being tweeted out yesterday, Leon Messi, Kylian Mbappe, who was really surprised here about these guys being on League One Tots? Not me, right? So that is what it is. What it comes down to with these guys is, they're rating, last year they made Messi Tots lower rated in his team of the year, but they, you know, this year, I don't know if they're going to do that because they haven't made a single team of the season card lower rated than their team of the year. The overall rating has stayed at least the same on every single card that's been in that scenario. So Messi this year, either a 98, I doubt they go for a 99 on Leon Messi for his Tots card, but hey, you never know. And then Mbappe's team of the year card is a 97. So I would imagine his Tots card would be a 97 or a 98 as well, but that's of course a big leak. Now, some of the names we maybe weren't expecting or hoped to see, Lacazette is going to be in as a part of the La Liga team in the season as well. I hope they keep his five star skill moves from the Winter Wild Cards. That would be very necessary. And there are a lot of attackers and strikers that we want to see in this League One Tots. You're going to notice here in a second for some other leaks that have been posted, a lot of strikers. Another one that's pretty much confirmed, Medina. And I'm really excited for this card because I think he's going to end up being really cracked, but also really cheap. This kind of reminds me of like a La Qua type card in terms of how meta he looks, maybe not quite as much pace. Hopefully EA juice up some of these guys and even make the cheaper ones look really good. Medina's got an 88 rated informer, I think with like 85 pace on it. So high 80s or maybe even 90 pace is not out of the question for this Medina card. And of course he has good links to Fofana. If Fofana were to get a Tots card. So those are kind of the only like concrete leaks that we have right now. Now, I will say this, Ford Sheriff tweeted in a SBC slash objective. And I think this is going to be an objective. In my opinion, I would say this is an objective type card. That's the way that it looks to me. So not super crazy there. It just kind of hits you like mid, but nice links, English links in league one, if that's helping out your squad building there. And maybe they juice them up. Hey, I don't want to judge it too much because it's not been released yet. But that is an SBC, but we really think it's an objective leak from Ford Sheriff there. Now, the rest of the leaks that we have right now are from FIFA 23 leaks. This guy's been posting a lot yesterday. And I will say some of these leaks make sense. Others of them, who knows, man? I would say some of these are going to be right. Some of them are going to be wrong. And he does have some of the same leaks that FIFA U team does have, but this account, once again, I feel like we talk about it every week. This guy gets stuff wrong and he deletes his tweet. So it looks like it doesn't get it wrong, but he absolutely does. He's tweeting out Lacazette. He's tweeting out Medina. Same as FIFA U team. He's got Mbappe, right? He's also got a Cabela, confirmed as league one team as he's in card. That, of course, you would think it would be a pretty cheap card, kind of similar, I guess you could say, to Gabri Vega from this La Liga team this season side. He's got Klaus in this team in the season. So that's the first time we've seen somebody leak Klaus. He's also got the Messi that is in there. He's got Fofana in the team. Now, Fofana actually makes sense because in the UNFP, the official France football Twitter page, they released a player of the year vote and Fofana, Jonathan David, Messi and Mbappe and somebody else are in that vote. I forget who the last one is. So that one seems plausible. Fofana probably deserves a team of the season card if we're being honest. So we'll see if he actually gets one. He's leaking him. He's also leaked Neymar, which I feel like this guy is just leaking all the cards that everybody wants to see. And we'll see if it actually comes true or not. Again, this is where you just have to be very careful. I'm not believing too much in these leaks because I'm gonna wait for more credible guys like foot sheriff and FIFA U team to be posting stuff. But Neymar potentially getting a moments card or a tots would be pretty crazy. We know he's gonna get one, right? It just kind of depends on like, what are the stats gonna be? So this one seems like it could be a moments, I think, but we'll have to see what EA do there. He's posting Ben Jeter as well.  I hope that Ben Jeter gets in. You could say deserved for sure. But that's another one, Hakimi as well. It would be strange to have Hakimi and Klaus in the same team, but hey, there could be two right backs. We had two right backs in the Premier League team this season. Hakimi would be pretty massive. Don't know who's gonna get in. Hakimi and Klaus, both, who knows. Nudo Menj as a left back, he's tweeting out, right? Like I said, he's tweeting out all the cards that we would want to see, right? All the PSG leaks, all the big players, the big names in League One. Lefe, that's probably looking like a fodder card. You know, didn't expect to see that one. We'll see if that happens or not. Taji Sovereir card a couple of years ago had a really cracked team this season card as well. Okay, there's one. And Jonathan David, this one's deserved in my opinion. I feel like he should get a card. He was also a part of that UNFP voting. So again, guys, those leaks right there, we just have to be careful on believing 100%. And I would probably look out for more posting today from Fusharif and some of those other guys that are gonna get more of the confirmed leaks. And you know, that's why we always say just take everything with a pinch of salt because you just never know what is really true and what is not gonna be true. Some people leak stuff nowadays, just to get clout, just to get hype and you just, again, it's just the whole mess that is created by this leak frenzy that has been in feet for this past couple of years. People get this information, people latch on to it because it's like, oh my goodness, the hype of the building up to whatever. And it kills the surprise factor. It does, I mean, I'll be honest, it really does. It would be way better in this game with no leaks. There'd be so much more fun, so much more surprise and all that good stuff. But it's just kind of the way that it is nowadays and this is the stuff we have to deal with because of the way things have gotten with like EA and the leaks and the community and all sort of that stuff. So that's kind of what's there for League One team this season. Watch out for a loading screen today. We might be able to decipher who is in the team of the season based off the leaks that we know and what the loading screen does say. Other things coming today on Wednesday, I'm looking at myself when I'm saying this, don't forget to do Silver Stars because if you have not, it's double XP for the Al-Harbi card from Saudi League Tots. This one's gonna be going away. We'll get a new Silver Star today. So watch on your meta Silver Cards on the market. They could be rising a bit today. It's more people are gonna be in Silver Stars trying to get those dubs for the new XP that'll be coming out for this one. And then also our daily icon, SBC is going to be Prime Thierry Henri and that was leaked by FIFA Romania. So very credible source, Prime Thierry Henri. Somebody who has not gotten a special icon card this year on FIFA, which if we're getting a Prime SBC for him, that almost makes you feel like we're not gonna get another special version of Thierry Henri for the rest of the year, which is a bit of a bummer because it seems like EA has been putting just about the best version of all these guys in the SBC besides the Carlos yesterday. That could be an example against that. But I really hope we get another version of just icons in general. We always thought we were gonna get Tots icons. We have heard nothing about that yet. Maybe shapeshift their icons in the summer, who knows. But hopefully this Thierry Henri SBC, it looks like it's cards around 400,000 coins. I'm sure it's dropped off a bit since the leak. This SBC probably needs to be like 350 to 400,000 coins for it to be decent value and craftable. It's kind of funny, right? They're releasing this Thierry Henri as a card inside of the Laodiga team this season, right? A Barcelona legend. Well, when you think of Thierry Henri, most people don't think of Barcelona, they think of Arsenal. But again, this is a icon that has played in La Liga as Thierry Henri did, and that's why he's getting a icon SBC. And then of course today as well, we're gonna the usual refresh of your 81 times 11 and all the stuff that is in the SBC section. So I'm gonna be building more upgrade packs. It's tough out here, man. I packed Gabri Vega like, I don't even know how many more times yesterday I packed, or sorry, Javi Galan. I keep combining Gabri Vega and Javi Galan. I packed Javi Galan like three more times yesterday. Finally got a Sebastian Drewisi, but I am still trying to pack as many of these La Liga team this season as possible. And maybe today for some reason, EA will turn up the pack weight. We can only hope. We're probably not expecting it, but we can only hope. So I'm gonna build more upgrade packs. We're gonna open more of those on the stream today, try to hit some blues and try to get the cup games done, open our guaranteed La Liga today. So it'll be a fun time chilling and hanging out in the Twitch stream. That link is down below in the description if you wanna check it out there. But that's gonna be the video for today, guys. If you did enjoy, smash a thumbs up on it. Comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new. It's been Nathan Pudercow and see you in the stream today. Peace, out.


Hey everyone, welcome back to another Python challenge tutorial and video. This is your host, Root of the Null, and we're looking at challenge number 15. We just got done with 14 with this nice little kitty named Uzi, took us a while to kind of figure that one out and get here. But here we are, challenge 15. Now what's kind of presented to us is this image of a calendar, just doing some basic observations. It's obviously January and I guess there's Monday the 26th is circled. I don't know what year it is. I'm assuming this is for the year, like this one whole six. And it looks like this whole, I don't know whether or not it's a bullet hole or some kind of hole. It's covering up the other digits in the year, I think. So as usual basic investigation, let's check out the source, the page source. The title is Whom, Whom? So maybe the answer is supposed to be a name or a person. There's a hint here that says he ain't the youngest, he is the second. Don't entirely know what that means, but it probably is a hint or a clue to Whom or who or whoever the person is that we need to get an answer to. Okay, so it should be he, should be a guy then I guess, and he ain't the youngest, he is the second. So there's our image of the calendar here, screen15.jpg, and there's another comment that says here, to-do, buy flowers for tomorrow. So there's gotta be something special about today, I guess on the calendar being the 26th of January, whatever year this is as of Monday, and tomorrow being Tuesday, the 27th of this year in January. So, okay, let's try and build something in Python. I haven't done any tutorials on these guys yet, but actually, let me save a new file. 15.py, I haven't done any tutorials on these modules yet, but there are two that I know and they're pretty simple and hopefully you can look up some documentation for them. DateTime, work with date and time and calendar to work with other dates. So those are two that I know and will probably be able to help us out for us with this anyway. I don't know really where to begin other than trying to figure out a year, whatever this bullet hole is covering up. So, we can test if the 26th is a Monday, right, or like the 27th is a Tuesday, and then it'll give us some ideas for what year it is, right? Let's try it. We can do this with a loop. We can test for like multiple years and see if they are the correct year. So, four year in range, let's go, we know it's going to be a thousand and something, something, a six, so I'm just going to set this to zero and let's go up to as high as we can, 1996. That was when I was born, 1996, wow. And then, we can increment by ten because obviously if we're just going to go up like 16, 26, 36, and then eventually we'll get to 11 and it'll keep building and just filling these in between numbers. So, that's why we can increment by ten and just shorten the amount that our loop will go through. So, okay, now we can determine if this day, the 26th, is a Monday or anything, because that's going to be the 26th in January. So, that's a function in date time. We can actually create a date time object with date time. So, let's say if datetime.datetime, now it will pass in arguments for like the year and the month and the day and everything. So, it will pass in year, the month would be one, considering that's January, the first month, and the day, let's say the 26th, dot weekday. Now, weekday is another function that will return the value or like a numeric value depending on what day it could be. I don't know the documentation of when Sunday, like when the week starts. Let's google that, datetime, weekday, return the week, return the day of the week as an integer where Monday is zero and Sunday is six. Okay, so, okay, so yeah, zero would be Monday, one would be Tuesday, two would be Wednesday, et cetera, three Thursday and that sort of thing. So, if we're looking at Monday, 26th, we're testing if it's zero. And if that is the case, then we can print the year. Run this, bam, we got a lot of stuff. Okay, so, I kind of want to look through some of these dates. I don't know exactly what I'm going to do with them though. What is that other hint that it said? View page source. He ain't the youngest, he is the second. Okay, so, youngest throughout our period of time would mean that the latest year that the guy's age, he would be the youngest if he were born at this latest year. It's 1976, but he's not the youngest, he is the second. So, 1846. Something about 1846. What can we gain from 1846? January 26, January, January 26, 18, what is it, 56? 46, 1846, crap, 1846. Benjamin Franklin, ooh, Benjamin Franklin Keith, Franklin, Ben Franklin, Benjamin, not the heck, this doesn't look good. What's Ben?  What's the other hint? Buy flowers for tomorrow. Oh, okay. We should test for, the other date, we should test for, what day was it? Tuesday, Tuesday the 27th. So, January 27th, if that's a Tuesday, a weekday would equal one rather than zero. So, if we run this, hey, pretty sure this is the exact same output. Okay, let's go with 1846, and, but now, okay, now it would be January 27th. Letter to William, holy crap, who was born on January 27th? This page is going to load. Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison. Garrison, Clark, second guy, Clark. Oh, Howie, how, Charlie how, that doesn't work either. What the heck? Four laws, 1846. So Robert Peel, Peel? I don't know what to do. Let's look at our code. For a year in 2006 to 1996, the reason we set that up was because of this hole. Because we don't know the two digits. Daytime, daytime, year is all this. I'm going to zoom this in since you guys don't need all this white space, this empty white space. I'm testing for January 27th, if it's a Tuesday. Oh, oh, years, right? We're forgetting about leap years. Right? Does this take into account leap years? The calendar function, I know has something about leap years. Calendar, leap year. I know it has something about leap years. Is leap year? Return is true if year is leap year, otherwise false. Okay, so we can test if, if we get the correct year, if we get a year that has a Tuesday, January 27th, just if calendar dot is leap year. So if that year is a leap year, what we'll do is we'll print out leap and then the year. Let's just see which leap years we have. Leap year, 1976. Okay, so the other one that we were seeing earlier, and then 1756. 1576, 1311, 76. Our hint was, he ain't the youngest, he is the second. But we're still on, we're still on Tuesday. We should change it back to, that's what it was, right? Yeah, Monday the 26th. So if we run this, we still get the same thing, 1756. So that, that's the year that we must want. I'll close out of Leasing, get back to Google. January 26th. It was 1756, 1756 being the second. Okay, this is a map of the world. Bank of Marin, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.  He was born on the 27th of January, 1756. Oh, that's Tuesday, that's the day right after, right? Yeah, see, look here, Tuesday, January 27th. And if we had that in, it would still give us 1756, that's still leap year. Are you kidding? Wolfgang Mozart. How about just Mozart? How about just Mozart? Oh, okay, we did it. Found the answer. Now on challenge 16, that's awesome, sweet. Okay, so it was Mozart. How come? I thought we were looking at the 26th of Monday, Monday, 26th, January, apparently 1756. Why the 27th? Oh, yeah, in the source it gave us this hint, to do by flowers for tomorrow. Because it's someone's birthday, heck yeah, that's awesome. Okay, so we figured it out. The next challenge, the 16th, we can get to it with the URL, Mozart. Aw, yeah. Thanks for watching everybody, that one was pretty cool. There's a little bit more investigative and research and mind games, other than a lot of code like the last one. But this one, huh, you'd never have thought, I don't know, I guess leap years, that way we can get the second, because that's right, we were looking at the other one, the others that we were looking at, we looked at years, as well as leap years. So we looked at 1846 thinking that he's not the youngest, but he's the second, so the second year, that has a Tuesday, January 27th, but we should have been looking at leap years, rather than just regular years, or including leap years. I don't know, whatever we did, we got an answer, and we're on challenge number 16, that's awesome. So we're done, we're good. Thanks for watching everybody, hope you enjoyed this. If you did like the video, maybe do me a favor and like the video. Leave me some constructive criticism in the comments, and if you're feeling generous today, maybe subscribe, I'd love that. Thanks for watching everybody, I'll see you again.


I'm often asked why am I a libertarian, there are two reasons. The deepest one is just the way I was raised. I was raised in a lower middle class, working class household. My father went to sixth grade, he worked as a pipe fitter in a shipyard. And the values that my parents instilled, they were not political in any conscious way, but the values my parents instilled in me were, you know, don't be envious of other people, work hard, respect other people, never make excuses for any of your failings and, you know, never feel, you know, too boastful about your successes. And that upbringing combined with my exposure to economics, I remember the date, it was January 17th, 1977, and I saw a supply and demand curves and the teacher said, look, here's what happens when government imposes a price cap on oil and gas. We have oil shortages and growing up in the 1970s, I realized, oh my gosh, now I understand why I've actually waited for hours in a car to buy gasoline. Now I understand why gas is in short supply. So seeing basic economics is better explained how the world worked, combined with this just general upbringing of, look, you are responsible for yourself, no one's responsible for you. I think naturally leads to being a libertarian.


I welcome you joining me today and spontaneous gathering here online and today we're just going to workbook lesson number 20 and it's so beautiful because it's really our first lesson that directs us directly towards what we really truly want and what our goal really is and a lot of the other earlier lessons have helped us kind of expose and loosen and begin to release some of the obstacles to the awareness of love's presence and one of the ways that we refer to the goal of really the ultimate goal is the light and that light could also be called the vision of Christ or Christ vision and so today's lessons you know we're starting to be really directed very specifically to what to do what to say how to practice so we can experience the light the vision of Christ and in these workbook terms that is called seeing true seeing not not perceptual seeing seeing with the body's eyes and using the five senses because the ego made the body and the ego made the five senses and and the ego made the cosmos so basically if we want to really be free we have to learn how to see truly see so that's our lesson for today lesson number 20 and also you know it's it's giving us it's kind of like giving us a point or two what's it all about you know like that song what's it all about Alfie you know what's what's it all about Jesus we really want to know that sounds like a good new song we could we could invent what's it all about Jesus and then we go from there with these lessons so let's jump into lesson 20 I am determined to see we have been quite casual about our practice periods thus far there has been virtually no attempt to direct the time for undertaking them minimal effort has been required and not even active cooperation and interest have been asked this approach has been intentional and very carefully planned we have not lost sight of the crucial importance of the reversal of your thinking the salvation of the world depends on it yet you will not see if you regard yourself as being coerced and if you give in to resentment and opposition this is our first attempt to introduce structure do not misconstrue it as an effort to exert force or pressure you want salvation you want to be happy you want peace you do not have them now because your mind is totally undisciplined and you cannot distinguish between joy and sorrow pleasure and pain love and fear you are now learning how to tell them apart and great indeed will be your reward your decision to see is all that vision requires what you want is yours do not mistake the little effort that is asked of you for an indication that our goal is a little worth can the salvation of the world be a trivial purpose and can the world be saved if you are not God has one son and he is the resurrection and the life his will is done because all power is given him in heaven and on earth in your determination to see is vision given you the exercises for today consist in reminding yourself throughout the day that you want to see today's idea also tacitly implies the recognition that you do not see now now therefore as you repeat the idea you're stating that you are determined to change your present state for a better one and one you really want repeat today's idea slowly and positively at least twice an hour today attempting to do so every half hour do not be distressed if you forget to do so but make a real effort to remember the extra repetition should be applied to any situation person or event that upsets you you can use them differently and you will what you desire you will see such is the real law of cause and effect as it operates in the world what a positive note to end what you desire you will see such is the real law of cause and effect as it operates in the world I am determined to see yeah let's just let that sink in I am determined to see no truly truly I am determined to see to support our idea today let's actually listen to some words that Jesus gives us about the vision of Christ because vision of Christ is seeing and if I'm determined to see tell me more Jesus the ego is trying to teach you how to gain the whole world and lose your own soul the Holy Spirit teaches that you cannot lose your soul and there is no gain in the world for of itself it profits nothing to invest without profit is surely to impoverish yourself and the overhead is high not only is there no profit in the investment but the cost to you is enormous for this investment cost you the world's reality by denying yours and gives you nothing in return you cannot sell your soul but you can sell your awareness of it you cannot perceive your soul but you will not know it while you perceive something else as more valuable the Holy Spirit is your strength because he knows nothing but the spirit as you he is perfectly aware that you do not know yourself and perfectly aware of how to teach you to remember what you are because he loves you he will gladly teach you what he loves for he wills to share it remembering you always he cannot let you forget your worth for the father never ceases to remind him of his son and he never ceases to remind his son of the father god is in your memory because of him you chose to forget your father but you do not really want to do so and therefore you can decide otherwise as it was my decision so is it yours you do not want the world the only thing a value in it is whatever part of it you look upon with love this gives it the only reality it will ever have its value is not in itself but yours is in you as self value comes from self extension so does the perception of self value come from the extension of loving thoughts outward make the world real unto yourself for the real world is the gift of the Holy Spirit and so it belongs to you correction is for all who cannot see to open the eyes of the blind is the Holy Spirit's mission for he knows that they have not lost their vision but merely sleep he would awaken them from the sleep of forgetting to the remembering of god christ's eyes are open and he will look upon whatever you see with love if you accept his vision is yours the Holy Spirit keeps the vision of christ for every son of god who sleeps in his sight the son of god is perfect and he longs to share his vision with you he will show you the real world because god gave you heaven through him your father calls his son to remember the awakening of his son begins with his investment in the real world and by this he will learn to reinvest in himself for reality is one with the father and the son and the Holy Spirit blesses the real world in their name when you have seen this real world as you will surely do you will remember us yet you must learn the cost of sleeping and refuse to pay it only then will you decide to awaken and then the real world will spring to your sight for christ has never slept he is waiting to be seen for he has never lost sight of you he looks quietly on the real world and he would share with you because he knows of the father's love for him and knowing this he would give you what is yours in perfect peace he waits for you at his father's altar holding out the father's love to you in the quiet light of the Holy Spirit's blessing for the Holy Spirit will lead everyone home to his father where christ waits as his capital self every child of god is one christ for his being is in christ as christ is in god christ's love for you is his love for the father his father which he knows because he knows his father's love for him when the Holy Spirit has at last led you into christ at the altar to his father perception fuses into knowledge because perception has become so holy that it it's transferred to holiness is merely its natural extension love transfers to love without any interference for the two are one as you perceive more and more common elements in all situation the transfer of training under the Holy Spirit's guidance increases and becomes generalized gradually you learn to apply it to everyone and to everything for its applicability is universal this has been accomplished perception and knowledge have become so similar that they share the unification of the laws of God and also let's jump to chapter 13 the guiltless world and we're doing section five the two emotions we'll start with paragraph six as you look with open eyes upon your world it must occur to you that you have withdrawn into insanity you see what is not there and you hear what makes no sound your manifestations of emotions are the opposite of what the emotions are you communicate with no one and you are as isolated from reality as if you were alone in all the universe in your madness you overlook reality completely and you see only your own split mind everywhere you look god calls you and you do not hear for you are preoccupied with your own voice and the vision of christ is not in your sight for you look upon yourself alone little child would you offer this to your father for if you offer it to yourself you are offering it to him and he will not return it for it is unworthy of you because it is unworthy of him yet he would release you from it and set you free his same answer tells you what you have offered yourself is not true but his offering to you has never changed you who know not what you do can learn what insanity is and look beyond it it has given you to learn how to deny insanity and come forth from your private world in peace you will see all that you denied in your brothers because you denied it in yourself for you will love them and by drawing nigh unto them you will draw them to yourself perceiving them as witnesses to the reality you share with god i am with them as i am with you and we will draw them from their private worlds for as we are united so would we unite with them the father welcomes all of us in gladness and gladness is what we should offer him for every son of god has given you to whom god gave himself and it is god whom you must offer them to recognize his gift in you vision depends on light you cannot see in darkness yet in darkness in the private world of sleep you see in dreams although your eyes are closed and it is here that what you see you made but let the darkness go and all you made will no longer see for sight of it depends upon denying vision yet from denying vision it does not follow you cannot see but this is what denial does for by it you accept insanity believing you can make a private world and rule your own perception yet for this light must be excluded dreams disappear when light has come and you can see and now as we are determined to see which is our workbook lesson 20 today here's just a boost boost reminder from Jesus that seeing is not involved the physical eyes at all do not ask do not seek vision through your eyes for you made your way of seeing that you might see in darkness and in this you are deceived beyond this darkness and yet still within you is the vision of christ who looks on all in light your vision comes from fear as his from love and he sees for you as your witness to the real world he is the holy spirit's manifestation looking always on the real world and calling forth his witnesses and drawing them to you he loves what he sees within you and he would extend it and he will not return unto the father until he has extended your perception even unto him and their perception is no more for he has returned you to the father with him oh wow how sweet we are being blessed blessed blessed we have showers of miracles raining raining in our mind rinsing our mind freeing our mind releasing every scrap of judgment positive or negative to be still and know the stillness of the christ mind that's really what it's all about and and the blessing is we can go forth and and remind ourselves today maybe you have a mental to-do list and you've you've got all your things your to-dos for today but actually now we're going to put the workbook lesson of the day right there at the top before the to-do list starts with our prayer our prayer from the heart I am determined to see I want the vision of Christ I can only see in christ vision in the light in the light of who I am this is an inner vision too this is not with the body's eyes or the five senses this is an inner spiritual vision it's the spiritual eye and let thine eye be single okay this is the spirit's eye the the spirit's seeing and it's always helpful to remind yourself you know as I look upon the world with the eyes and I proceed to the five senses I am not perceiving reality I am perceiving deception and distortion as long as I see a fragmented world so I'm I want the light of Christ I want the the joy of God I want to see I want to truly see so god bless you thank you for joining and and we are one in this determination to see see you soon in the light of Christ that's where we see each other God's


Welcome to what the F is going on in Latin America and the Caribbean, CodePink's weekly YouTube program of hot news out of the region. In partnership with Friends of Latin America, Massachusetts Peace Action, and Task Force on the Americas, we broadcast every Wednesday at 4.30pm Pacific, 7.30pm Eastern on CodePink's YouTube channel. Tonight we include Sanctions Kill as a special edition broadcast partner. Before introducing today's program and our featured guests, I'd like you to meet my friend and guest co-host Margaret Flowers of popular resistance and Sanctions Kill as well as the Embassy Protection Collective. She'll be joining me in conversation tonight. She'll be leading this episode with me. So welcome Margaret. Thank you, Terry. It's great to be with you. Thank you for inviting me. Good evening, everyone. And it's a pleasure to meet you, Vice Minister Castillo. So I want to explain to the audience that our guest this evening is Venezuelan Vice Minister William Castillo. He's going to be talking to us tonight about Venezuelans anti-blocade law. And he will be speaking in Spanish. So for those of you who want the English translation, I'm going to put in the YouTube chat. The link to the Zoom we are using tonight so that you can go there and turn on the interpretation and hear the Spanish to to English. So give me just a minute to put that in in the YouTube chat. And, and then I'll introduce our program and our guest. So give me just a minute, and I'll give you that link. So for those of you who want the Spanish to English translation, I just posted the Zoom link in the YouTube live chat so you can move over to Zoom. If you prefer the to hear it with the translation. And so now I'm going to go ahead and introduce the program and our guest to all of you. So let me give you a little bit of background before we start to combat the US economic war on Venezuela, a new strategy was unveiled on September 29 2020 by present by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. This was this legislation was called the anti-blocade constitutional law for national development and guarantee of human rights or anti-blocade law for short. It was approved in a session of the National Constituent Assembly, known as the ANC in Spanish on October 8 2020. The ANC has served as an interim legislative body after the very conservative some would say hard right wing led National Assembly was declared in contempt for illegal election practices and other violations. In May of 2021 Venezuelans National Assembly ratified the lot. The current National Assembly was elected are those sitting in that body now we're elected in December of 2020. This by the United States Canada and its European allies against Venezuela includes US seizure of Sitco the oil refinery and other Venezuelan properties, the withholding of the country's gold and money reserves by Britain and Portugal and severe and a severe sanctions regime. The sanctions or more correctly known as unilateral coercive measures unilateral being the key word have cut off Venezuelans ability to import spare parts and critical chemicals for the oil and mining industries, particularly imports from the United States with its dominance in oil technology. One of the anti blockade law is a legal framework to guarantee foreign investments and shield economic agreements from US sanctions and sabotage with countries that are defying the sanctions to trade with Venezuela investments by domestic entities will be allowed as well. With affected economic improvements the government will be able to raise the real wages of workers pensions for seniors and benefits for the population. The government can also strengthen vital social programs such as the clap food boxes healthcare education and more the country's infrastructure, such as water electricity gas transport and telecommunications can be really rebuild excuse me rehabilitated as well. Today, we are honored to be joining conversation Venezuelan Vice Minister William Castillo. Minister Castillo is responsible for implementing the anti blockade law. He will be as I mentioned before he will be speaking in Spanish. You can go to the zoom link posted in the YouTube chat to hear that English translation. So this evening Margaret and I are very pleased to welcome Vice Minister Castillo for a very interesting and informative conversation. Thank you Minister Castillo. Thank you Terry. Well, I want to thank this invitation in the name of personal but also of our government, the Bolivarian government, the people of Venezuela that gives us the opportunity to communicate with sectors in the United States that are interested in knowing more about the situation in Venezuela, which is, as we know, deeply affected by the distortions that the media, the news agencies do of the Venezuelan reality. We know that the peoples and the social organizations of many countries are systematically bombarded, so to speak, in some way with lies, with fake news, with false truths about the reality of Venezuela. Thank you very much for this invitation and well, willing to talk to you, to answer your questions and give you all the information that is possible. I also want to say that I love the name of the program. I love the name of the program of the space, I did not know it. It seems very irreverent to me. So, well, we are ready to clarify many things in that context of the name of the program.  So, thank you so much. I think, and Margaret, please join in. I think maybe it'd be best to tell the audience a little bit about yourself and the specific role you have in the government at this point in time. And then let's talk specifically about what the anti-blockade lot is. Okay. Yes. Well, Teri, you made a very good summary in your presentation about our law. First of all, you have to say that an anti-blockade law can only arise in a blocked country. There are few anti-blockade laws and I think it's the only one in the world that openly, explicitly adopts the name of anti-blockade law. Why? Because it is important that you know it. Venezuela, since 2014, has suffered a set of actions and attacks, to its economy, to its political system, to its population, and even to its territory. And these actions have been directed from the United States by the governments of Barack Obama, initially, and especially from Donald Trump, that have imposed in Venezuela two laws approved by my party in Congress, a law in 2014 and another law in 2019, seven executive orders, what you call executive orders, which affect public finances, the oil industry, the public economic sector, they are measures that block our resources, our money that is in international banks. Venezuela has suffered blockages of more than 40 international banks in the last seven years. Currently, there are almost $6 billion blocked in banks, that $6 billion would not serve us to pay the vaccination of all our population to solve many problems that we have in public services. We have $1,000,000 frozen in the Bank of England, gold and monetary. The CISCO, a very well-known company in the United States, was pushed through an executive order. Donald Trump was confiscated, he was transferred to control of the United States, and the United States gave control of that company to a Venezuelan politician, who self-proclaimed president of the Republic, and that the US government recognized in January 2019. That is, Venezuela has been attacked on all fronts. All of our consulates and diplomats in the US territory have been assaulted by these politicians supported by the US public force, even by the Secret Service of the United States, in the case of the Venezuelan embassy in Washington. We have been expelled from buildings, offices, our diplomatic officials have also been attacked. For example, our ambassador to the United Nations, Dr. Samuel Moncada, has been prevented from moving in a radius of over 60 kilometers on the island of Manhattan, that is, he is practically kidnapped on the island of Manhattan because he has no mobility, violating the convention of Vienna on diplomatic immunity. In short, Venezuela has suffered a set of attacks in seven years, and those attacks have severely deteriorated life in Venezuela. Without a doubt, they have had a very hard effect on our population, the mortality rate has increased, the infant maternity of the newborn children, because the resources for hospitals have been reduced, because many companies, particularly the United States and Europe, deny us the resources to repair medical equipment. They have denied us the contracts of services for maintenance of medical equipment. They have blocked us from paying for vaccines such as vaccines for vixenia or malaria, sarampion, which are other diseases that he needs vaccines every year. So, well, our people have suffered very hard impacts. They have denied our women, for example, through the companies that left the country, 16 large pharmaceutical companies in the world left the production of medicines in Venezuela in a period of two years. So, of course, of course, our country has suffered the attacks, the consequences, and that has been recognized by the doctor, among others, the doctor Alena Dujan, who is a special rapporteur of the United Nations for the issue of unilateral coercive measures. She has said in her report to visit our country, she has noticed the impacts and the suffering of our people, and she has said to the United Nations and has asked the United States and other countries to raise the sanctions against our country. So, of course, I tell all this to be able to reach the law, because if this had not happened, we would not need an anti-block law. And basically, what does the law do? The President of the Republic, last year, after contacting the gravity of everything that was happening, he decided to introduce the constituent body of Venezuela. Okay, thank you. Vice Minister, that's the way. Yes, you can hear it. Thank you. This anti-block law has a special character and allows you to take exceptional measures, special measures to address the blockade. For example, to give a specific example, and you, Teri, mentioned it briefly. Many companies, including American companies from different sectors, from the energy sector, from the commercial sector, from the technological sector, want to do business in Venezuela. They want to work legitimately in a country like any other country in the world. But they are afraid that due to the executive orders, if they open a business in Venezuela, they may be affected or sanctioned or persecuted, even confiscated their money in the financial system, because that's how the executive orders are established. So, this law is established, a protection system of identity. It is established as a legal protection system. Venezuela makes a commitment to accompany any company that works in Venezuela that is affected, to accompany them in their legal defense processes, but also to protect their identity so that they can do and work with Venezuela. It is established in a set of incentives and facilities to companies that want to work with Venezuela, because basically we are looking for that law, or we are looking for that law, to activate economic sectors that are deprived. For example, the oil sector, the gold sector, the iron sector and other minerals, the agricultural sector, which also has a great interest in developing agricultural production. Venezuela has more than three-quarters of its territory, which are susceptible to agricultural projects. And because of these sanctions, these projects are paralyzed. So, the first goal of this law is to be able to look for ways, conjunctions with the private sector, with other governments that have been maintained, allies of Venezuela that have supported Venezuela. For example, the Russian Federation, the Chinese government, that have practically sold to cost the vaccines to Venezuela, that have delivered medical teams to Venezuela to help in this situation, we are also looking to stimulate the development of these economic relations. And the second part of the law, also mentioned very well in Terry, is where the resources go. The law is a law to guarantee national development and to guarantee human rights, that have been violated, the right to food, the right to health, the right to a free sexuality on the part of women, because the importation of medicines or treatments was also attacked, for example, for the gynecological tests of Venezuelan women and gynecological treatments. This also affected women's rights and, in some way, the resources that are obtained by these special agreements, will go, first of all, to improve the income of the Venezuelan family, of the Venezuelan workers and workers, to strengthen public services that have also been reduced, the electric energy service that has been attacked, water services, transportation, telecommunications, to support the income, the recovery of the consumption of the Venezuelan family and thus aim to improve the development of the national production economy. So it is a law within an economic strategy, within an economic plan. We had to do the law precisely to offer guarantees, to offer that the Venezuelan state is committed to that strategic line with its economy and with all the public or private economic actors in the world who want to participate in the economic reconstruction of Venezuela. And we are already doing it in the middle of the sanctions. I must say that, to finish this part, I must say that although the Biden government began in January of this year, it has not increased the sanctions, it has not reduced them either, it has maintained a kind of freezing of the sanctions, but it has reduced the aggressive rhetoric against Venezuela. Certainly, the daily rhetoric that the Trump government had, the daily threat, and it is known that the threat is an essential element because it distances trust in an economy. The Biden government has reduced this rhetoric, although it has clearly not been committed in a process of normalization of diplomatic relations that has been requested on several occasions by the Venezuelan president. We have said that we are willing to directly talk to the United States, to resume diplomatic relations that are in this broken moment, and to return to relations of respect between two sovereign states. We believe that this is the only condition that Venezuela has set to normalize its relations again. Well, although I repeat that the sanctions have not increased, they have not decreased either. The way that we expect that in the United States, in that reflection that has been publicly said to be about the sanctions, it can find a way and it can return to international law respecting the sovereignty of Venezuela and recognizing the right that Venezuela has to economically develop in a free way. Right. All of those are so many important points that you made, Vice Minister. And I think it's important for the people who are viewing this program to understand very clearly that what the United States is doing, these unilateral coercive economic measures or UCMs, we call them sanctions, are illegal under international law. So everything the United States is doing in Venezuela, including political intervention, military aggression, all of this is illegal under international law. So Venezuela has every right to use whatever tools it has within its power to fight back against this. And it's important to understand how devastating this economic blockade is on the country of Venezuela, as you've mentioned some. But, you know, Elena Dujan, the UN rapporteur, said that Venezuela is currently operating on 1% of the income it had prior to the sanctions. So this is a country that provides free health care, education, has a food program, an incredible housing program. Venezuela has a population of 32 million people. The United States has more than 320 million. Venezuela has already built and housed 3.7 million families. They built 3.7 million units of social housing. We in the United States have less than one million units with 10 times the population. So tremendous work that Venezuela has been doing. You mentioned the fact that businesses won't, you know, fear US retaliation if they do business with Venezuela. This is a well-founded fear as we've seen companies like Rosneft, the Russian oil company targeted by the United States for doing business with Venezuela. Dominated, you know, financial institutions that are dominated by the United States have also refused to process financial transactions. So a well-known one is when Venezuela recently was purchasing vaccines to COVID-19 through the UN's COVAX program, which is designed to help countries like Venezuela. UBS, the Swiss bank would not process the financial transaction so that Venezuela, which had the money, could not pay for those vaccines. This is just some of the tangible ways that these UCMs impact people in Venezuela. And so my, you know, and also blocking investment in industries when I was there in 2019 and met with the person who was the head of procuring medical and pharmaceuticals, I spoke about how the pharmaceutical industry was thriving prior to that in Venezuela, but because they couldn't get the precursors of things that needed to produce the pharmaceuticals, really decimated that industry with, as you mentioned, same thing with agriculture, getting the inputs, keeping the oil company, you know, refineries running, getting the equipment for that. All of this is blocked by this economic blockade. So one thing that other countries have been trying to do is to work around these institutions that are dominated by the United States, so finding alternative ways of doing business outside of these institutions. Is that something that Venezuela has been looking at? How are you able to bypass the U.S. dominated, you know, financial institutions and do business with these other countries? Yes, well, a part of the processes that have been implemented by the President's blockade agent, Nicolá Modro has said it with a very clear expression for us, perhaps they are not so understandable outside, but he has said, well, in silence, there has to be some of these operations. In silence because many times if we announce that we are going to do something in some sector, with some company, well, immediately an order, a measure of the office of active control, the OFAC, and punish that sector or that company. So that has had to be done. Many of these operations, let's say, under a protection of confidentiality, seeking to de-serize some operations, we have had to expand our supply chain and sometimes what was done before, notice that this is very important because, in addition, when we can negotiate something, it costs us more because we have to look for several intermediaries, several companies who have to go through a chain of processes to be able to acquire, for example, a medical team or some raw material, something that any country does it directly, for example, in an international visitation and contracts directly with the companies, then a number of resources is saved to give them an example. We, for example, we had to buy from different companies, from different parts of the world, medicines in several countries, but what does the country tell us that officially it cannot be sold to us? It has to be sold to a third private company, it is the one who seeks the way to do it. This is unusual in any nation, in a country that we talk about free trade, right? We have denounced the United States before not only the criminal court, we have denounced them before the World Trade Organization for the commercial restrictions that they are putting and well, the United States, what it has done is bet that the World Trade Organization is going to be in Venezuela. We, at the beginning of this year, have taken the United States before the instances of the World Trade Organization and simply with the power of veto that it has in different organizations, the United States prevented it from being debated because it is evident that there is an affectation to the international right, which is illegal, but that besides being illegal to violate the rights of companies and the rights of the States, we are talking about the civil population, we are talking about the general population of Venezuela. They are not measures, as sometimes it is said, that they are going to affect a employee or the president of Venezuela. Today, we have to repeat in this space that President Trump put a price on the head of the president of Venezuela. How can we talk about an international legality where the president of a country spends 15 million dollars on the life of the president of a sovereign state? It cannot be talked about but a war policy. A country that puts a price on the head of another president practically is telling him that he is in war. And what the United States has done is declare an invisible war for Venezuela. A multi-form war, a silent war. We say that every measure that dictates the fact that it is a bomb. But these bombs go over the salaries, they go over public services. They are bombs against refineries, they are bombs against food, against the health of the Venezuelan people. And that is why we have to look for this type of mechanism that I repeat, some of them cannot even be informed openly about the world because we could risk it. We have made a lot of effort to strengthen the economic alliances and that is public. I do not say anything that is not known with countries that are willing to face the blockade. Among other things because it also suffers from blockades like the case of Cuba, like the case of Iran, like the case of Russia, although they are not sanctions against their country, there are many sanctions against Russian companies, against the main Russian oil company, there are sanctions against Chinese technology companies, Chinese oil companies, Turkish companies have been sanctioned, there are companies from 26 different countries including the United States, Colombia, Mexico, Germany, Switzerland who have tried to do business in Venezuela and the United States in sanctions lists by the United States. So that is the reality. Margarito Avesi is also something very important that I would like to expand, to clarify a little. In other countries they have gone to take similar measures. Each country is looking for its way, its way of facing the blockade. The Chinese People's Republic promulgated two months ago a law of anti-sanctions. Only because of the Chinese economic weight it has another charge. China has said to the United States that any sanction against a Chinese company will be contested with reciprocity against American companies. So of course, because of the Chinese economic weight it can dictate an anti-sanction measure of that type of Venezuela, it does not have the economic weight to dictate reciprocity. Because we do not influence the international trade. We do not control the banking transactions system where we were excluded. Then Cuba also has a law of defense against the blockade. And the Islamic Republic of Iran also has some measures that it has taken to seek to overcome very difficult impacts that the blockade has had and more than 40 years has been sanctioned by the United States. So the most important thing here is that the international experts, the five United Nations relatives directed a letter a month ago to Secretary Blinken asking for explanations about sanctions denouncing, for example, the death of children who were going to be operated in Italy, as in Argentina. And those children, the operations of those children were paid by the Venezuelan state. And by freezing the Citgo company and freezing the financial resources of Citgo the operations of those children and several of those children have died and others are still at risk of dying because the freezing of that money was asked to pay for operations to save the lives of children. So there is already a conscience, we believe in the world, of the criminal nature and deeply inhuman of these policies and we continue to denounce them to the whole world. Yeah, that's an important point that people need to understand.  The Center for Economic and Policy Research did a study just looking at 2017 to 2018 a one-year period and found that the U.S.'s economic war contributed to the deaths of 40,000 Venezuelans 40,000 people in one year. And as you mentioned, people being stranded I know that hundreds of patients with cancer who have been sent outside of Venezuela they need are stranded because Venezuela doesn't have the mechanism to pay for their care. These are real human costs and so often in the United States we hear about these humanitarian exceptions and they don't work. As you said, the Elena Duhand found that our report that we did recently on the impacts and consequences of U.S. sanctions found the same thing. These humanitarian exceptions don't work and so people are directly impacted. I know we don't have much time left so I do want to say to our audience particularly people living in the United States we have a responsibility to demand that the Biden administration reestablish diplomatic relationship with Venezuela there's no reason why we don't have that and demand that we immediately end the sanctions. This is something that the president can do he has the power to lift this economic blockade which is actually putting us in the United States because of the level of criminal liability because they are illegal. So we need to make these two demands to reestablish diplomatic relationship and to end these economic measures immediately. I just want to follow up on that comment. It's so true the silence of sanctions is misleading to U.S. citizens as a form of warfare. We're not dropping bombs on the nation there's no troops on the ground it's out of sight it's out of mind and in my opinion and I'm sure in Margaret's as well that makes them even more dangerous the silence of them and the out of sight out of mind philosophy behind them makes them even more murderous and more dangerous. One of the things you mentioned earlier Minister Castillo was that the Biden administration's narrative foreign policy narrative in general I would argue but towards Venezuela has changed or is less aggressive in tone and in vocabulary but in practice is the same. It's not advanced but it's not retreated in any way shape or form it is the same as the Trump policy and I think that's really important for our audience to understand that that just because the tone has changed doesn't mean the practice has changed. It's just a new face and a new voice but the same policy. And so regarding this US policy towards Venezuela and particularly in relation to the Venezuela dialogue that's been occurring here in Mexico City since August I think you just finished round three this past week. What do you see coming out of this dialogue is a lifting of sanctions? I mean I know that's probably the number one request but there's two things specific to the dialogue if you can comment on them that'd be great I understand if you can't. What the hope is with the United States and also specific to individuals and assets affected by the sanctions can you comment on the Alex Saab case and where he stands at this point I know he has still not been allowed to be part of the dialogue team the government's dialogue team here he's still sitting in prison in couple of things. Whatever you can comment and I know it's a quiet subject in the media right now the dialogue and with good reason. Yes, with pleasure. Thank you very much for those two questions first of all because when I say that it's affected the Venezuelan people and it's also affected the Venezuelan business and the Alex Saab case is a very important case for us because Alex Saab was invested in diplomatic immunity precisely because he traveled around the world trying to get a business quality but as a representative special envoy from Venezuela to seek the way to get food so he is being paid his work in favor of the Venezuelan people and that is absolutely compatible as it is in all parts of the world that he was a businessman that at the same time could support let's say with that diplomatic immunity he could move around the world precisely because of the attacks to the food sector you have to remember that two Mexican companies were broken by selling food to Venezuela under a mode that in theory is authorized by the sanctions which is oil for food that is, these companies received diesel special fuel from Venezuela and got food and were taken to the break between the Peña Nieto government and the government of Donald Trump for working with Venezuela and that case Alex Saab that has been incorporated by President Nicolás Maduro has incorporated Alex Saab who is a businessman who is in Mexico and we have only introduced a letter to the facilitator who is the government of Norway to the countries that are the Kingdom of the Low Countries and the Russian Federation we have given him a letter where the request is made for the incorporation of Alex Saab to our counterpart of the opposition so it is a point for us of the negotiation agenda and we will continue to fight for the human rights of Alex Saab that have been violated in more than 400 days of kidnapping by the government of each green without an accusation signed or an order of capture without an order of capture and that takes us to the dialogue I have the privilege and the responsibility to be part of the Venezuelan team of our delegation in the dialogue I can ratify what has been the public position of our president, our government in the sense that the dialogue must be produced by the government of Venezuela and significant in the rising of the sanctions and in the recovery of the resources and the active of Venezuela evidently we are going to a dialogue thinking in the economy thinking about the Venezuelan and we are a dialogue and a negotiation willing to advance in other issues that are priority of the opposition always and when the US which is the patrocinator of this extremist opposition is committed together to give clear and significant steps what can never be accepted by the government of Venezuela is a conditioning that is to say that Venezuela has to take measures before the sanctions are raised it is a negotiation process and in every negotiation precisely the parts must show will to advance in a coordinated way in the agenda that each one has set what I can say about it is that we insist on the economic agenda we have set with clarity the need to get resources first to close the vaccination cycle that is quite advanced I take the opportunity to say it Venezuela with its own resources we aspire to close before October November the massive vaccination of 50% and until the end of the year 70% of our population will be vaccinated with the two doses and that has been done with Venezuelan resources and with support from some nations but they are still requiring resources to improve hospitals for operations for teams so our priorities are to be able to recover our resources to normalize the economic guarantees of the people of Venezuela and in that sense we are open to the agenda to contain all the measures our priority is the people of Venezuela and so we will continue to defend it and we hope that in this third round we can make specific announcements it will depend on the political will of Mr. Baide's government which I repeat is the opposition's patrocinator and therefore we assume that any measure that they plan should have the support of their patrocinator we are a sovereign government it does not patrocinate us and they support us but our own people and in that quality that we are talking about so we hope that in the next few days and in the next round we can advance on that agenda it is an honor to have you with us this evening a really valuable conversation very informative for myself for Margaret I'm sure as well and certainly for our audience is there anything in closing that you would like to say? Thank you so much Margaret do you want to add anything? Just if people would like to learn more about these unilateral coercive measures please visit the sanctionskill.org website www.cdc.org www.cdc.org www.cdc.org www.cdc.org www.cdc.org www.cdc.org www.cdc.org www.cdc.org www.cdc.org www.cdc.org www.cdc.org www.cdc.org www.cdc.org www.cdc.org www.cdc.org www.cdc.org www.cdc.org www.cdc.org www.cdc.org www.cdc.org www.cdc.org country by country that talk about the specifics of the impacts of the US's economic war on those countries. So, you know, I want to add to our demands that we need to be pushing out there loudly and clearly. So, reestablish diplomatic relationships and economic war and free Alex Saab. So, thank you very much again, Vice Minister, for being here with us this evening. It was so informative and we agree that this dialogue is very necessary. We have so much to learn from the people of Venezuela and so much responsibility because of our actions of our own government. And this really is very helpful to us. Thank you. So, thank you everyone. I want to remind our audience. Thank you. Thank you so much for joining us. And to our audience, you've been watching what the F is going on in Latin America and the Caribbean CodePink's weekly YouTube program. We broadcast every Wednesday evening. I'm glad you find it a rebellious title because that we are rebellious. We broadcast every Wednesday evening on CodePink YouTube live, 7.30 p.m. Eastern. And also, you can now find us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and wherever you catch your podcasts. So, thank you. I should also remind you to be sure to listen to CodePink radio every Thursday morning, 11 a.m. Eastern on WBAI out in New York City, simulcasting out of Washington, D.C. on WPFW. And be sure to catch Margaret's clearing the fog as well, her popular resistance program. So, lots of tools to retrieve information. So, good night, everyone. Again, thank you so much, Minister Castillo, an honor and a pleasure. Thank you, Margaret. Always fun to do these programs with you. Really appreciate your time and your friendship. Thank you, Teri. I agree. Thank you. Good night. Good night. Okay.