HEADLINE: Venezuelan Opposition Authorizes US Military Action as Maduro Writes to Trump Amid Economic Collapse and Political Persecution GUEST NAME: Alejandro Peña Esclusa SUMMARY: Alejandro Peña Esclusa details Venezuela's economic crisis, reports the o
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🗓️ 23 September 2025
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HEADLINE: Venezuelan Opposition Authorizes US Military Action as Maduro Writes to Trump Amid Economic Collapse and Political Persecution
GUEST NAME: Alejandro Peña Esclusa
SUMMARY: Alejandro Peña Esclusa details Venezuela's economic crisis, reports the opposition supports US military action against Maduro, and notes troubled Colombian President Petro's drug links.
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| 0:23.6 | This is CBSI and the world. I'm John Bachelors. New World Report. I welcome Alejandro |
| 0:30.0 | Pina Excluza, a Venezuelan writer and commentator for the political dilemma facing all of the Americas as Maduro, the dictator, |
| 0:41.3 | is invited to go by the United States military, invited with a flotilla off the coast of Venezuela. |
| 0:48.5 | However, we also mentioned that Ernesto Aeroosha, former foreign minister to the Republic of Brazil, is not with us today. |
| 0:56.6 | He's traveling. |
| 0:57.4 | He expects to be with us soon enough to give us a big picture on Brazil. |
| 1:01.5 | But Venezuela is plenty right now. |
| 1:05.1 | Alejandro, very good evening to you. |
| 1:07.0 | I read you some of the headlines that are spilling out about Maduro the dictator. |
| 1:12.2 | Venezuela's Maduro says he wants a dialogue with the U.S., that's the Agenz Franz. |
| 1:17.2 | And then Venezuela's Maduro rights to Trump offers direct talks with envoy. |
| 1:22.4 | That's CNN. |
| 1:23.9 | And Associated Press, Venezuela, armed forces forces hold military exercises in Caracas. |
| 1:29.9 | Good heavens, he's moving around a lot. |
| 1:31.8 | All right. |
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