I'm John Batcha, this is CBSi in the world.

Venezuela in a crisis for all of the Americas, both north and south, this is a hemisphere crisis. Why?

Because Venezuela represents the adversaries, Russia and China, and their surrogates, Hezbollah, yes,

narco-terrorism, yes, Cuban military and state security, yes.

All of the bad elements are in one place in Caracas. Joseph, I start

with you because Venezuela's call for release of relatives arrested in election protests.

Ernesto mentioned this. You have news about what I reported last week was arrest warrants after Maria Karina and

Aemundo Gonzalez.

Was that a fact? And what about these detain? Who are they? Do we know how many there are? Thank you.

Yes, John. So let's review a little bit of the timeline very quickly.

So obviously election was held last Sunday on the 28th. On the 29th, Maria

Karina already put out the result and the verification of the vote through the ballots that they

scanned and put on our website. They try to take down the website, she put it back up. And so by Tuesday on the 30th or maybe 29th, they already had the narrative forming and it was very strong because they had the verification of the vote.

By Wednesday, the 30th, the attorney general of Venezuela,

a gentleman named Terec William Saab, issued an arrest order for both for Maria

Crena Machado and the candidate, which is in Mundo Gonzalez.

That arrest order was widely published.

It was verified by a lot of the international press and Maria

Karina herself said through a column that she wrote at the Wall Street Journal

that she had to go into hiding because they were worried that she was worried that she was going to

be arrested arbitrarily by the regime. Then there was a lot of people that were

concerned Thursday, Friday of last week, but then on Saturday, this past Saturday on the 3rd of August, a major

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