S8 Ep176: Venezuelan Opposition Leader Accepts Nobel Prize in Oslo: Colleague Evan Ellis reports on Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado accepting a Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo after escaping her country, outlining a new US national security strategy inc
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:10.4 | The New World Report. I welcome Professor Avan Ellis of the U.S. Army War College Strategic |
| 0:15.1 | Studies Institute. The Venezuela story has many moving parts. We begin with the national security strategy and what is called the Trump corollary of the Monroe Doctrine. |
| 0:28.0 | Monroe Doctrine comes down to this, 1902, 1903. |
| 0:32.3 | Teddy Roosevelt in the White House used gunboats to back off colonial masters, Germany, France, Germany, England, |
| 0:40.6 | and Italy from Venezuela collecting debts. The Trump corollary presumably connects to using gunboats. |
| 0:49.7 | We certainly have enough off the coast of Venezuela and now news of action of Venezuela, but instead we go |
| 0:57.7 | from Venezuela to Oslo, Norway. The beginning story is romantically successful. Nobel Peace |
| 1:05.8 | Prize winner Machado vows to bring award back to Venezuela. This is Reuters within these last hours. |
| 1:12.9 | Photograph of Ms. Machado walking with her friends in Oslo. The copy reads, Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1:21.3 | laureate Maria Carina Machado said she planned to take her award back to Venezuela, but to decline to say |
| 1:30.1 | when she would return to her home country after leaving in great secrecy to receive the honor. |
| 1:36.8 | Yes, she was spirited out of Venezuela, I believe that's the correct verb. |
| 1:43.0 | Evan, a very good evening to you. |
| 1:44.5 | The romance of this is overwhelming. |
| 1:47.4 | Last days, I've spoken with a member of the opposition |
| 1:50.3 | who was planning to be in Oslo to watch the award ceremony. |
| 1:53.6 | I'm sure he was there, Alejandro Pina Esclusa. |
| 1:57.7 | And he was unsure when he left whether Ms. Machado would make it out of the country. |
| 2:02.8 | She did. What do we know about her exit? What do we know about the significance of her in |
| 2:07.2 | Oslo as it bears upon the Trump corollary of the Monroe Doctrine? Good evening to you, Evan. |
| 2:14.7 | Good evening to you, John. Well, certainly, Maria Carino's story here with accepting the Nobel |
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