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welcome back to unbiased your favorite source of unbiased news and legal analysis

welcome back to unbiased politics today is monday January 5th, and we are back for the first episode of 2026. It's only right that we start this year with a special report. I know that you guys have a ton of questions about Venezuela and, you know, the capture of Nicholas Maduro. So we're going to cover it all. Before we do, I do need to tell you that I am a little sick. You've probably heard it already. It's pretty obvious. Of course,

I would get sick the day before that I, the day before I officially returned to the microphone.

So now you guys have to unfortunately listen to my deep raspy voice for the next 40 to 50 minutes.

So I'm very, very, very sorry about that. Unfortunately, I can't really do anything about it. I did the spoonfuls of honey. I've been drinking the tea. I've been trying to do what I can, but I wasn't going to miss out on my first episode back. So we are going to do our best to get through this episode because there's a lot to talk about. Now, I do want to caution

you that you have to be able to understand or at least be open to understanding nuance to

fully listen to and digest this episode. Geopolitical matters and foreign policy are

incredibly complex. It's not black and white at all. So just know that going into this episode.

I'll go on a few different tangents throughout the episode, though it all ties into the same story. And then by the

end of the episode, you'll see how nuance all of this really is. I'll start with the basics.

Who is Maduro? Why was he taken? How was he taken? And then we'll get into the reactions on all

sides, whether this broke

international law and what that means, whether Trump needed congressional authorization to strike

and much, much more. So first, who is Nicholas Maduro? Nicholas Maduro is a Venezuelan

politician and former union organizer who got to where he is today by rising through the ranks

of the socialist

movement led by former president Hugo Chavez. Before getting into politics, Maduro was actually a bus

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