In early 2017 Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced moves that would change the world's most oil-rich nation from a democracy into a dictatorship. This sparked a crisis, igniting long-standing anger over inequality, misrule, hunger and crime. VICE founder Suroosh Alvi and correspondent Ben Anderson travelled to Venezuela as Maduro seized Venezuela's political institutions with an alleged 'sham election' and unhappyly suppressed the growing opposition to his rule.

Vice Season 5 Episodes...

• s05e01 - Assad's Syria & Cost of Climate Change
• s05e02 - Trans Youth
• s05e03 - When the Earth Melts & The Displaced
• s05e04 - Kings of Cannabis & Into the Darkness
• s05e05 - Black and Blue & Our Bionic Future
• s05e06 - End of Amateurism
• s05e07 - Life Under Sharia & Plastic Oceans
• s05e08 - Fast Food of Arabia & Nollywood
• s05e09 - Medical Détente & Bananas
• s05e10 - Taliban Resurgence
• s05e11 - Engineering Immortality & Robot Revolution
• s05e12 - Women Behind Bars & The Business of Making Art
• s05e13 - Taking Back Iraq & Lost Generation
• s05e14 - The Politics of Terror & End of the EU?
• s05e15 - Future of Firearms & Russia 'Wins' Climate Change
• s05e16 - Cyber Supremacy & Japan Rising
• s05e17 - Last Line of Defense & El Rostro
• s05e18 - Power to the President
• s05e19 - Crude Reality & Between Oil and Water
• s05e20 - Autism Under the Lens
• s05e21 - Show of Force & Return to Somalia
• s05e22 - Controlling the Narrative & Power to Congo
• s05e23 - Dawn of a Dictator
• s05e24 - Dirty Oil & Rebuilding Our Reefs
• s05e25 - Dark Web & Future of Appalachia
• s05e26 - Divide and Conquer & Crackdown in Honduras
• s05e27 - Russian Hacking & Contagion
• s05e28 - Post-Truth News & Microbiome
• s05e29 - After ISIS & Cubs of the Caliphate

Vice Show Summary

HBO is partnering with "VICE" on an innovative news magazine show to be hosted by "VICE" founder Shane Smith, it was announced today by Michael Lombardo, president, HBO Programming.

The HBO series will showcase a mix of stories from around the globe. Among the segments in production for possible inclusion in the show are: Taliban child sleeping bombers; North Korean slave labor camps; New York's underground voodoo heroin clinics; Somalian pirates; and Satanic dentists in the Pacific Northwest.