Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio. I'm your host and comrade

Bredo Shay and today we have on Mike Prysner from the Empire Files and I's left podcast

to talk about the current situation happening in Venezuela. For those who want to deeper

dive into the history of Venezuela we encourage you to listen to our old episode, Venezuela

in crisis defending the Volabarian Revolution with George Cicarello-Mar. That should give

you a good historical context for this episode. But with that said let's move straight to

our episode on Venezuela with our guest Mike Prysner.

So my name is Mike Prysner. I'm currently the producer and co-writer of the show Empire

Files with Abbey Martin which was when it started for a couple years on the Telessour

English network but now we've been independent for a little over a year after US sanctions

prevented us from receiving any of our funding from Venezuela or any of the partner countries

with Venezuela. I'm also the host of a podcast called Eyes Left with Afghanistan veteran

names Spencer Oppone, I myself and Emma Rackwar veteran and for the since got out of the

army in 2005 we've been active in the anti-war movement in particular encouraging active

duty service members to refuse orders to a Rackar Afghanistan or Syria and now Venezuela

unfortunately. Yeah and then I you know as part of my work with Empire Files I've had the

privilege of being able to do on the ground investigations and various parts of the world

in particular Palestine, Columbia, Ecuador and more recently Venezuela where I was in

2017 the last time there was a real effort by the United States to have a undemocratic

coup seized with violence and I was there for a month in the heat of all of that and so

you know my understanding of what's going on today is kind of informed by that last failed attempt

of the right-wingnessies power in the country. Yeah and I really just want to say up top that

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