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The Welcome to Meeting Roots Radio.

This is Robbie Martin.

And this is Abby Martin.

How's it going, everybody? It's been a while since we did our last

episode, partly because Abby's been in Venezuela working on a pretty awesome empire files report.

Pretty much one of the only journalists that I've seen on the ground at the protest in Venezuela,

which is quite a shame that there's so much slanted media coverage coming out here in the U.S. about Venezuela,

and almost all of it that I've seen is secondhand.

There's no, like, on the ground, original reporting being done by American journalists. So

um really have to commend Abby for doing this and spending so much time there and actually trying

to get an accurate picture of what's happening there on the ground. And you went into it with an open

mind. You weren't like, you know, super pro-Venezuelan government

or anything like that.

You just wanted to report accurately on what you saw.

So I'm really glad you did that.

And I can't wait to see what you guys put out.

But today, let's just kind of talk about, you know,

we'll give a preview basically to what your Empire Files report's going to be and go over

everything you saw there and how it differed from U.S. media coverage and, you know,

seeing it from outside the lens of the propaganda.

So, yeah, like, just tell me a little bit about how this opportunity came to you

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