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8: US Pressure on Venezuela/Colombia Narco-States Splits Latin American Left. Ernesto Araújo and Alejandro Peña Esclusa discuss how the US military is ramping up pressure on narco-terrorism gangs operating out of Venezuela and Colombia, causing nervousness i

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John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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US Pressure on Venezuela/Colombia Narco-States Splits Latin American Left. Ernesto Araújo and Alejandro Peña Esclusa discuss how the US military is ramping up pressure on narco-terrorism gangs operating out of Venezuela and Colombia, causing nervousness in the Maduro regime. Trump openly attacked Maduro's key ally, Colombian President Petro, calling him an accomplice and threatening to cut aid and raise tariffs. The Venezuelan opposition is heartened, believing Maduro's fall will expose deep drug-related corruption linking members of the São Paulo Forum across the continent.
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This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchelor. The New World Report. I welcome my good colleagues.

0:30.7

Ernest Arousio, former Foreign Minister of the Republic of Brazil. He's traveling. He's in Africa.

0:35.8

And Alejandro Pina Excluza, Venezuelan writer and commentator, he's traveling. He's in Africa. And Alejandro Pina Excluza, Venezuelan writer and commentator, he's traveling, he's in Europe, looking at the events in these last hours, violence and threat and promise. We begin with exclusive from Reuters. U.S. Navy warship holding survivors from strike on Caribbean vessel.

0:56.7

Reuters tells us so far, 27KIA, in five strikes on alleged drug boats out of the Venezuela,

1:05.5

Colombia coastline. Two survivors so far, I believe, but that's a moving number.

1:13.3

We also have suggestion that Petro of Columbia is getting involved.

1:20.6

The President of United States has made remarks about Petro's conduct with regard the narco-terrorism gangs that are now operating at a high level out of Venezuela,

1:31.6

out of Colombia, out of Ecuador.

1:34.2

So I go to Alejandro immediately to ask how the opposition of which he is a certain member,

1:41.8

having been jailed for his politics before he left Venezuela, how the opposition

1:47.2

regards the U.S. flotilla, the remarks by the President of the United States, and now reading Petro

1:55.7

into the argument. Gustavo Petro is a well-known guerrilla president who was elected on the basis of

2:05.8

taking Colombia into the future. Instead, it appears that he's led it drift to the past of

2:10.9

drug lords. He might be one of them, but he certainly knows of them. He's also accused personally

2:16.9

of being a chemical

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