VO: As Venezuela sinks further into crisis, and deadly clashes between protestors and police continue, alternative forms of protest are emerging both at home, and abroad. VO: Like this humiliating spectacle at a bakery in Madrid. MALE: “You’ve got very little time my friend.” FEMALE: “The people in Venezuela are dying of hunger, and here you are spending their money in Spain.” MALE: You’ll all end up face-down and hanged. Murderers. You’re going to end up face-down on the ground.” VO: This man, a government employee loyalist traveling in Madrid on official business was publicly shamed by Venezuelan protestors abroad, in an action they’ve dubbed: “escrache”. MALE: “Don’t sell these people anything. They’re murderers.” VO: This kind of protest is meant to humiliate pro-government Venezuelans who are leading comfortable lives abroad, while the country suffers economic collapse. MALE: “Murderers! Criminals!” FEMALE: “It’s so great to come here to eat bread and croissants, where they actually have some.” MALE: “They’re in the wealthy area of Madrid, no less.” VO: In Miami, a similar protest took place at a Venezuelan bakery. FEMALE: “You’re eating here, but in Venezuela, people are starving.” MALE: “Don’t come here anymore. Don’t come here. Go to Canada, go to the North Pole, where people won’t recognize you.” VO: This time, protestors directed their outrage at Eugenio Vazquez, a former minister in president Hugo Chavez’s government. CROWD: “Get out! Get out!” VO: They didn’t stop until they drove him out. VO: And in Australia, the daughter of the mayor in Caracas, who’s been posting idyllic photos snapshots on Instagram of her life in Bondi Beach, was chased down. VO: In Venezuela, violent clashes between demonstrators and police have left at least 40 dead since protests began there on April 1st. LAURA: They [the police] have been shooting us with marbles, nuts, and bolts. VO: Laura Elena Castillo has seen her share of clashes in Venezuela, but has decided — along with a few others — to mount a different kind of protest. NEWS ANCHOR: Good Morning, this is the Bust TV newscast in its first edition. We’re here to bring you the news. 10 years ago today, Radio Caracas Television was shut down. LAURA: For a long time now, audiovisual media has been censored or shut down. We’re realizing that in freedom of speech and freedom of the press, the government is winning. LAURA: Trying to inform an audience that’s been kept in the dark for such a long time, is like a protest, it’s like a subversive act here. VO: Laura and her friends have boarded dozens of buses in Caracas to tell a captive audience unvarnished facts they may not hear on state media. ANCHOR: A poll conducted in April reveals that 85% of Venezuelans want general elections this year. VO: One group of imitators has also produced a broadcast of their own, in the city of Valencia, two hours away from Caracas. ANCHOR: Three children died from lack of oxygen in the maternity ward of Valencia’s Central Hospital. CLAUDIA: We love that it’s being replicated, that was our hope, but we’re making sure to keep it consistent. VO: Claudia Lizardo is one of the original anchors. ANCHOR (CLAUDIA): Every tear gas bomb is equivalent to our average monthly salary. LAURA: People are so grateful for the information. They tell us: “Thank you for informing us.” They clap, the bus drivers don’t charge. You realize that we still hold our democratic values very close, and despite this dark period of information scarcity, people still recognize that information is a right. A: And we plan to continue doing this as long as this censorship continues. ANCHOR: And in other news, the bakeries still have no bread. Thanks so much for your attention. VO: On June 7th, just a few days after their second bus tour, news broke that another protester was killed on the streets.