Capítulo 259: How We Keep Hope Alive

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🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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While traveling through Colombia, Mala witnessed the growing opposition of U.S. intervention in Latin America, following the capture of Venezuela's leader, Nicolas Maduro. Together, Diosa and Mala review U.S. intervention in Latin America, ongoing state sanctioned violence in Minneapolis, and how to resist nihilism during turbulent times.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.3	Guaranteed Human.
0:04.4	On January 3rd, I was traveling, and I happened to be eating in Provenza, in Medellín, at Carol G's restaurant, enjoying brunch, when we got an Apple news update that President Trump and the United
0:22.9	States had captured the president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro. And in the hours after we saw that
0:31.8	news, things seemed pretty common, Medellin. We were like pretty far from the Columbia, Venezuela border. But we started to hear
0:40.6	other news that President Trump was threatening a similar fate for the president of Colombia,
0:49.1	President Petro. And as we continued our travels in Colombia, we went to Bogota, and we were seeing a lot of street art warning against an American invasion.
0:59.4	A lot of graffiti, wheat pasting about Donald Trump and the U.S. invading South America for resources and political control.
1:09.7	And the news just began to further develop from there.
1:14.1	U.S. intervention in any country is global news. The U.S. is a superpower. So it was definitely
1:22.3	scary waking up for me a Saturday morning, getting ready to go on an early run and also seeing an Apple
1:29.1	news alert and reading that President Maduro was captured by the U.S. government.
1:35.5	And it was alarming. It was scary. There's so much history that I've learned my entire life
1:41.8	about U.S. intervention and different parts of the world and just
1:45.9	watching the news unfold and being online and seeing all kinds of misinformation, AI-generated
1:54.9	content, which I think is something new that we're navigating as a society and as people online is having to discern
2:04.2	what is real information coming out of a country and their news and their content and their
2:11.9	own citizens, their own people updating and posting and then what's AI and also propaganda at the same time by our own
2:21.0	either US media or just like talking heads commentators yeah and now our propaganda can be
2:28.4	AI generated and spread like wildfire it's very wild it's a very wild and scary time. Let's get into it because
2:36.0	there's more to talk about on the U.S. intervention in Latin America. Right now, 2026, we've read
2:42.6	about different interventions throughout the years in our history books and growing up and it's
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