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the BSI in the world. I'm John Bachelor with my colleague Gregory Coppley who's traveling. He's in Perth, Australia, his native birth.

And he's far enough away from the action to have

perspective. We start with Venezuela. The summary is too lengthy, Gregory. I

will say that most recently the news says that Lula de Silva, the three time elected

president of Brazil, joins with the US State Department several voices to

call for new elections in Venezuela. Start over again. At this point,

Madura's administration regime has rejected the call and so as the opposition led by the

nominal winner of the election the one recognized by the US and Mundo Gonzales

Urita so we have a standoff in Venezuela unless what is the measure of

Venezuela's success or failure on maintaining Maduro? Does it is it significant one way or the other?

Because we know that outside actors are all already operating freely in this zone. There's Havana, there's Managua, and Lula de Silva and Gustavo Petro are not hostile to Chinese, Russian, and Hezbollah efforts. So is Caracas vital for the security of this of the left in

South America? Pretty much it's still exporting oil to places like Iran to places like China rather using

Iranian and Dominican flagships so it's critical there. It is very much a foreign

territory for the United States which of course has lost its mandate to control and

influence the Western Hemisphere. So Maduro is staying there is critical to

Beijing, critical to Moscow, more critical to Beijing.

It's critical to Tehran as well

because they use this as a base to influence

the Americas generally.

I just did a piece for what about publications called Venezuela's Maduro a

constant in a changing world and what I meant by that was not that he was

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