S8 Ep197: Alejandro Pena Esclusa and Ernesto Araujo celebrate the Nobel Peace Prize for Venezuela's Maria Corina Machado, viewing it as recognition of peaceful resistance against the Maduro regime. They discuss the regional struggle against a "project of power" lin
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🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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1958 VPOTUS NIXON CHASED IN CARACAS
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS I on the world. |
| 0:07.5 | I'm John Batchel. |
| 0:08.5 | The New World Report with my good colleagues Ernest Aruj, |
| 0:11.5 | former foreign minister of the Republic of Brazil, |
| 0:14.1 | now traveling in Africa, |
| 0:16.2 | and Alejandro Pina Excluza, |
| 0:18.8 | Venezuela and geopolitical thinker and writer, |
| 0:21.7 | now traveling in Europe, |
| 0:23.1 | just back from the celebration |
| 0:24.8 | of the Nobel Peace Prize |
| 0:27.6 | being awarded to the leader of the opposition |
| 0:30.8 | to the Maduro regime in Caracas, |
| 0:35.5 | Maria Kuchina Machado. |
| 0:38.7 | And what we're looking at here is a whole people celebrating a Nobel Prize because we're |
| 0:46.1 | at the edge of Venezuela being transformed into the state it was before. |
| 0:52.2 | Rich, democratic, transparent, and extremely minding of the future for its children. |
| 0:59.7 | That has not been true for many years since a man named Chavez took it over |
| 1:03.6 | and passed it on to his chosen dictator, Nicholas Maduro. |
| 1:10.0 | The fleet remains off Venezuela. But we need to know what Venezuelans won, |
| 1:16.0 | which is why I'm asking Alejandro's help here. Alejandro, congratulations. It was a wonderful |
| 1:21.5 | celebration of a peace prize that comes to Maria Karina Machado, but really belongs to, as she acknowledges, all the Venezuelan people. |
| 1:32.3 | What is it that the Venezuelans are most happy about right now about the celebration of the Peace Prize? |
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