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Today, Explained

A few men in fishing boats try to take Venezuela

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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While the world was distracted by a pandemic, a ragtag team of Americans and Venezuelans attempted to overthrow President Maduro. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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While the rest of the world was busy worrying about the virus, they just had a big old

1:38.0

messy attempt at a coup out in Venezuela. If the coup flew right past you, Alex Ward has your back,

1:44.6

he's been covering it for Vox. To understand the extent of this dramatic

1:49.6

experience tragedy, you really need to understand four main characters of this play.

1:54.2

You already know one of them, Juan Guaidó, the guy who's been trying to outst

1:57.9

Venezuela and president Nicolas Maduro for about a year and a half. You need to know Guy name

2:03.2

JJ Rendon, who is a close associate of the Guaidó team. You need to know about a former major general

2:09.6

from Venezuela, a guy named Cleaver Alcala, who is no fan of Maduro. And the central character in

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