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The Intelligence from The Economist

Plainly reigns but on a plane to Spain: Venezuela’s leader

The Intelligence from The Economist

The Economist

Daily News, Global News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Nicolás Maduro has stolen an election, again—but this time the rightful winner felt so threatened that he has fled to Spain. We ask what happens next. A valedictory dispatch from our global business columnist asks why the forces of “creative destruction” seem to have faded (10:27). And the youth clubs that stitched together the fabric of young Britons’ lives are disappearing (18:55).


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0:00.0

BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like developing offshore wind,

0:06.1

and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. Well today we're mostly in oil and gas.

0:16.0

We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in

0:26.0

2023. VP.com slash and not all. The Economist.

0:37.0

Hello and welcome'm Rosie Blore.

0:45.0

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

0:53.0

Received academic wisdom has it that giant successful firms eventually lose out to smaller, nimbler innovators, the process known as creative

1:06.2

destruction.

1:07.6

Our outgoing global business columnist questions the basis of that popular theory.

1:15.0

And youth clubs have been part of the fabric of British society since the 19th century,

1:20.0

a haven for kids who are often unhappy at home or at school.

1:24.5

But in recent years more than a thousand of them have shot.

1:28.0

We ask why. But first,

1:35.0

six weeks ago,

1:40.0

six weeks ago, voters in Venezuela made a clear choice of Edmondo Gonzalez as their president.

1:49.0

But not for the first time, Venezuela's people didn't get the leader they voted for.

1:54.8

And this time around the danger to the actual winning candidate was clear.

2:00.0

So over the weekend Mr. Gonzalez fled to Spain to seek asylum.

2:04.8

Misala Caracas,

2:06.6

is your rodeo of episode of depression, co-axions and

2:11.3

amenassa of't permit me solid.

2:14.0

In Madrid, he thanked his supporters

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