1: PREVIEW GUEST NAME: Alejandro Peña Esclusa; Bill Roggio 50 WORD SUMMARY: Alejandro Peña Esclusa discusses Venezuelan opposition leaders (González and Machado) asking the UN and US to intervene against the Maduro drug cartel, an ally of Iran, Cuba, and Put
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 29 September 2025
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| 0:27.2 | geopolitical thinker. He's in Europe, reflecting on the news that the man who won the Venezuelan |
| 0:34.5 | election last summer, 2024, |
| 0:42.5 | Edmundo Gonzalez and the leader of the opposition, Ms. Machado, |
| 0:47.4 | have both sent a video to the UN and all the world, |
| 0:51.4 | saying to the U.S., please intervene and help us. |
| 0:54.0 | They do not fear the United States whatsoever. |
| 1:01.2 | They fear Maduro and his drug cartel and the enforcers from bad actors overseas. |
| 1:04.7 | And that includes Moscow and Beijing. |
| 1:12.2 | Here's Alejandro Pena Exclusive to explain what the Venezuelan people are asking for. |
| 1:16.9 | Law in order to be restored in Caracas and in Venezuela. |
| 1:19.5 | Much more of this later tonight. |
| 1:22.9 | And this was communicated not only to Washington, |
| 1:26.1 | but to the General Assembly of the UN, |
| 1:31.0 | sending a video to the UN in which both Maria Corina Machado and Edmundo Gonzalez said it was necessary to get rid of this drug cartel |
| 1:38.0 | that is assurping the power taken over the power in Venezuela and used in Venezuela as a platform to export |
| 1:46.8 | evil, not only drugs, but also terrorism. Venezuela is now the government, the regime of |
| 1:54.1 | Venezuela, is the most important ally of Iran, of Cuba, of Vladimir Putin. |
| 2:01.5 | So Venezuela today is a platform, the most important platform for all sorts of crimes. |
| 2:09.9 | And Edmundo Gonzalez and Maria Corina Machado know this, and they're saying, speaking this |
| 2:16.1 | truth out publicly, and that's what it inferred in the |
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