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S8 Ep307: THE FOUR FAMILIES OF CARACAS AND THE END OF THE REGIME Colleague Alejandro Peña Esclusa. Esclusa analyzes the four mafias currently competing for power in Caracas: the Rodriguez siblings, Diosdado Cabello, Padrino Lopez, and Maduro's remnants. He argues t

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🗓️ 13 January 2026

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  THE FOUR FAMILIES OF CARACAS AND THE END OF THE REGIME Colleague Alejandro Peña Esclusa. Esclusa analyzes the four mafias currently competing for power in Caracas: the Rodriguez siblings, Diosdado Cabello, Padrino Lopez, and Maduro's remnants. He argues that overwhelming US military force has rendered local weapons irrelevant and that the dismantling of these groups is necessary for elections. NUMBER 12
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0:00.0

I'm John Bucer with my colleague Alejandro Pini Excluza, who's traveling, but he's helping me to understand the events in Venezuela.

0:22.6

We go from outside to a statement in London that there are four families now competing to be top of the pyramid of the narco-terrorism that is Venezuela and its allies.

0:33.6

The four families are, the Vice President, Delci Rodriguez, her family. Deistado Cabeya, the interior

0:41.8

minister, the guys with guns, his family. Then there's Padrino Lopez, the guys with guns. He's the chief

0:48.7

military officer, the minister of defense. There was reason to believe that he did not survive the attack on the raid on

0:57.0

Caracas, but he did, despite his home and the headquarters being heavily attacked. And then

1:03.4

there's Madura himself, Nicholas Maduro, who's in custody in the United States along with his

1:08.7

wife, but he leaves behind a gang. These are tentacles in all directions, to Colombia, to Brazil, to Central America, to

1:16.3

Nicaragua, especially to Cuba.

1:18.4

So the way this is posed is these four are going to fight it out.

1:22.6

Alejandro, what's your opinion of these four families?

1:25.7

Let's begin with Delcio Rodriguez. What do we need to know about

1:28.7

her and her skills? Well, she represents, well, when we talk about families, probably, we must

1:34.8

say not members of a family, but members of a mafia, led in this case by Delci Rodriguez

1:41.5

and her brother, Jorge Rodriguez. She's a vice president designated by

1:47.1

Maduro, and Jorge Rodriguez is the president of the Congress, a fake Congress, but yeah,

1:54.3

he has that pose. They together, they're very intelligent. They are related to the old left-wing movements because they're sons

2:02.9

of a person who was a terrorist and who belonged also to the left.

2:08.1

So they have all these relations to the old left.

2:11.4

They're ideologically left-wing, not like Padino-Lopez or Giouseo Cabello that are more just corrupt, just wanting

2:19.7

power.

2:20.6

They are ideologically Marxist.

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