Welcome to the Empire Files podcast. This is your host, Abby Martin. This is the audio of our show.

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For the last few weeks, the world's focus has been on Venezuela as Trump pushes for regime change.

Most every media outlet paints the same picture, that Venezuela is a brutal dictatorship

and a starving nation, one that demands intervention, and that they finally have a solution

to the crisis, a legitimate claim to power by an opposition politician Juan Wido.

As civil society collapses, America confronts the socialist dictatorship.

Maduro stole the previous election. He locked up and he tortured.

Anyone trying to unseat him.

There's no toilet paper some days in Caracas. They're eating zoo animals.

What happened? Well, you know what happened. They implemented socialism.

The eyes of the revolution are everywhere.

President Maduro's militia still trying to keep the people in line.

Guido is investing in the people, whereas Nicholas Maduro is investing in the army.

So this is a neighborhood, Juan Guido feels safe in, this is one of the wealthy neighborhoods of Caracas.

Despite the faux dissent against Trump's domestic policies, the corporate media has lined

up to support his coup in Venezuela.

Tech giants like Facebook and Twitter are doing their part to shape the narrative, too,

recently removing 2,000 accounts for spreading pro-Moduro messaging to, quote, influence

people.

Would you personally negotiate with Nicholas Maduro to convince him to exit?

Well, he has requested a meeting, and I've turned it down because we're very far along in the process.

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