In this video by Buzzfeed News, a man tells his personal perspective on the crisis in Venezuela, and how politicians made things worse:

“They fed the country hatred. They separated us into two types of people. We stopped being one group of people and we became either red or blue.”

In the video, he tells stories of family members getting kidnapped, killed, or mugged on the street. In Venezuela, the country currently experiences one murder every thirty minutes. People on average make $33 a month, or about 20 cents an hour. Watch the video to learn more.