All right, Alexander, we are once again joined by Raymond Zuccaro Ray.

Good to have you on the Duran once again.

Where can people follow your excellent work?

And then we are going to talk about Venezuela.

There's a lot that needs to be discussed.

Thank you again, gentlemen, for having me on.

My firm's website is www.RvX-a-M-com, and I published some pieces on Twitter at Ray Zucaro.

And you've published some very interesting, excellent work on the situation in Venezuela following the capturing or the kidnapping, whatever you want to call it, of Maduro.

So, Alexander, Ray, let's discuss Venezuela.

Indeed, and nobody better to discuss the situation in Venezuela than Ray,

because if I may just say, there's an awful lot being said and claimed by all

sorts of people, much of it inconsistent and contradictory. And very, very few people who are

commenting about the economics and the finances and the geopolitical strategies behind this, really are experts or have expertise

and actual knowledge in this area, which Raymond absolutely does do. So we are very privileged

and honoured to have Raymond on this program today because he can

clarify a lot of the misunderstandings that we actually have about what is going on, about the

motivations of the various actors and about where this is all heading.

So Raymond, over to you, and perhaps he could take us directly in.

A brief introduction from me, I think the best thing to do is to hand it over to you

and you can take it from there.

Thank you. Look, you know, I've been doing emerging markets now for 29 years, and frankly,

the opportunity I'm seeing in Venezuela reminds me these once-in-a-lifetime sort of opportunities,

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