#NewWorldReport: Venezuela dodging sanctions. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis
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🗓️ 26 April 2024
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#NewWorldReport: Venezuela dodging sanctions. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/venezuelan-candidate-gonzalez-touts-return-exiles-freeing-political-prisoners-2024-04-24/https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/venezuela-oil-sector-hit-by-loss-its-widest-us-license-2024-04-18/
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/venezuela-opposition-backs-gonzalez-presidential-candidate-2024-04-20/
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island? |
| 0:04.0 | Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the |
| 0:09.1 | tropics. |
| 0:10.1 | But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise, |
| 0:18.0 | the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder. |
| 0:23.0 | Wish you were here. |
| 0:24.0 | Follow the price of Paradise Now Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. |
| 0:41.0 | This is a New World Report. Venezuela, there's an election scheduled for July of this summer. |
| 0:46.8 | There is news, however, about what happens next. |
| 0:50.4 | The opposition now has a candidate. His name is Gonzales, heretofore the candidate of choice, Maria |
| 0:58.4 | Karina Machado has been ruled out by the Supreme Court in what you'd have to say is a dodgy decision. |
| 1:04.1 | But in any event, the opposition believes it is necessary to put forward a candidate to |
| 1:10.1 | vote for at Mundo Gonzalez, committed to tearing out, said he, a transition that will allow |
| 1:16.8 | exiled people to return to the country and political prisoners to be freed. |
| 1:21.1 | All well and good. what purpose professor knowing that |
| 1:25.3 | Maduro and his lieutenants will not permit a free and fair election well John of course, the key dynamic behind the scenes is that Maduro and the Chavistas control really all of Venezuela's |
| 1:40.8 | key institutions. |
| 1:42.0 | They control the courts, They control the kind of the fake new Congress |
| 1:46.0 | that was stood up a couple years ago. |
| 1:49.2 | They control, of course, that the police and the security |
| 1:51.4 | apparatus, you know, aided by the penetration of |
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