Maria-view mirror: asking Venezuelans what they want now

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🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

As Maria Corina Machado, Venezuela’s opposition leader, meets with President Donald Trump, we talk through our exclusive polling on what the country wants for its future. Childhood in the age of AI promises to be bespoke and personalised—and perhaps also lonely and atomised. And on America’s National Bagel Day, our correspondent explores the foodstuff’s murky history.

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0:00.0	The Economist
0:02.0	Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist.
0:12.0	I'm your host, Jason Palmer.
0:15.0	Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
0:20.0	Every generation fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
0:28.0	Every generation reckons the latest tech will be bad for kids.
0:31.7	Yet television didn't ruin them nor video games after that.
0:32.9	Social media?
0:34.2	Jury's out.
0:36.4	But AI is a different story.
0:39.8	It offers an unprecedentedly personalized upbringing,
0:42.3	but also perhaps a lonely one.
0:46.8	And as I'm sure many of you know,
0:49.3	it's National Bagel Day in America.
0:53.4	Our highly biased correspondent holds forth on their greatness.
0:56.3	Even a bad one, he reckons, is pretty good.
0:59.4	But how they came to be is a lot less clear.
1:02.7	First up, though.
1:15.9	Today, Venezuela's opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Maria Carina Machado, will meet with President Donald Trump at the White House.
1:19.8	Back in 2024, she had been barred from running in the election.
1:23.5	Instead, Edmuno Gonzalez ran in her place and with her backing.
1:33.1	He won, but Nicholas Maduro, a serial election thief, claimed otherwise.
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