Venezuela is a country of two truths. Left and right. Pro and con. Rich and poor. Beyond the differences, the facts show that the country is not in great shape. In Puerta Sin Colores, Redhorse Reporters Roel Nollet and Marianne Cap show the different faces of the Bolivarian Revolution, through the eyes of Venezuelans themselves. In 2018 there are presidential elections. Nicolas Maduro, then 55, succeeds himself as president of Venezuela. He wins the presidential election with over two-thirds of the vote, but the opposition parties don't recognize the election results, claiming they are unfair.

"I don't believe in love anymore," says Nixon. He's sixteen now and works in a garage. "They killed my mother on the street with three gunshots." Every day 80 people are killed in Venezuela. That makes almost 30000 a year. On the side of the road, we see a man looking for food in the garbage. He looks up and keeps on searching. "Chavez has done a lot of good things in the beginning," says a man who votes for the opposition. "He took the money from the rich and gave it to the masses. But now they are destroying us, the people.

In the meanwhile thousands of people leave the country to live abroad in Columbia, Peru and Chili. Iris left too. "I was a chavista. I voted for the revolution. But when you feel you have no future, it doesn't matter how hard you fight, because we become poorer every day."

In Puerta Sin Colores, Roel and Marianne speak with Venezuelans about the state of the Latin-American country and with members of 'colectivos', armed supporters of the revolution. What they find is the colorlessness of poverty. Despite the differences that divide the country, the situation people have to live in, are bad. Certainly in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. When the first demonstrations against the government break out in 2014, Marianne Cap resides in an institution for boys in difficult home situations in Mérida, a city in the Andes. Four years later a Redhorse team returns to search for the boys and see what has become of them. But just like the country itself, a lot has changed.

Puerta Sin Colores is a documentary by Roel Nollet and Marianne Cap in cooperation with Irislis A Cova.

Realised with the support of Journalismfund.eu Fonds Pascal Decroos voor bijzondere journalistiek

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