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S8 Ep287: VENEZUELA: THE REGIME SURVIVES MADURO'S EXIT Colleague Mary Anastasia O'Grady, Wall Street Journal. Despite Maduro's removal, the Venezuelan regime remains intact under hardliners Delcy Rodriguez and Diosdado Cabello. Mary Anastasia O'Grady notes that rep

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🗓️ 9 January 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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VENEZUELA: THE REGIME SURVIVES MADURO'S EXIT Colleague Mary Anastasia O'Grady, Wall Street Journal. Despite Maduro's removal, the Venezuelan regime remains intact under hardliners Delcy Rodriguez and Diosdado Cabello. Mary Anastasia O'Grady notes that repression continues, and European oil companies are hesitant to invest. The regime feigns cooperation to avoid US intervention, but genuine recovery is impossible without restoring the rule of law. NUMBER 13
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0:00.0

This is CBS Eye on the World.

0:08.6

Here's John Batchelor.

0:10.7

I'm John Batchel with Mary O'Grady of the Wall Street Journal editorial page.

0:15.2

She writes the America's column.

0:17.3

And I highly recommend all of you to look to the Wall Street Journal page for Potomac Watch,

0:23.8

a conversation between Polshiko, the editor-in-chief of the editorial page,

0:28.4

and Mary about the events of these last days.

0:30.9

They're tumbling so fast, the sweep of it is very helpful, the scale of it.

0:36.9

Mary, a very good evening to you. We hear much about

0:39.1

the Monroe Doctrine, about the Roosevelt Corollary, now about the witticism, the Donroo doctrine.

0:47.0

It turns on the events that are still fog of war. What we have is that Maduro is no longer in Venezuela, he's in custody and

0:56.2

his charged crimes. So is this why. We have a president who was the vice president in Caracas,

1:03.0

Delcia Rodriguez, and a military establishment that is intact as far as I can see. We also have

1:10.0

the statements very unclear to me that the U.S.

1:14.4

is in charge of policy or in charge of Venezuela, certainly in charge of whether the oil is going

1:19.6

to Cuba and China, et cetera, or whether it's going to the United States. Mr. Trump continues

1:26.8

to make remarks that are hard to characterize as accurate,

1:32.1

but at the same time, he could be reflecting policy that's forthcoming.

1:37.0

Your measure right now and your conversations these last days,

1:41.0

what has changed in Venezuela?

1:43.3

Is there any profound change here because it looks like

1:46.0

everything's intact except for Maduro? Good evening to you. Well, John, I think you describe it

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