S8 Ep376: Ernesto Araujo and Alejandro Pena Esclusa report on a spontaneous Rio rally supporting the Bolsonaro family. The demonstration reflects continued popular backing for the former Brazilian president despite legal challenges, indicating that conservative mov
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🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Ernesto Araujo and Alejandro Pena Esclusa report on a spontaneous Rio rally supporting the Bolsonaro family. The demonstration reflects continued popular backing for the former Brazilian president despite legal challenges, indicating that conservative movements in Latin America retain significant grassroots energy and organizational capacity.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Batchel, my good colleagues, Alejandro Pina Excluza from Venezuela. He's traveling in Europe. |
| 0:22.6 | He's in exile. He was a political prisoner. That's why he's going to take us into the dungeon. |
| 0:28.9 | And Ernesto Aeroza, former foreign minister of the Republic of Brazil, watching, especially the |
| 0:34.4 | Bolsonaro's, as they repudiate the lawfare of Lula de Silva's third government, |
| 0:41.9 | looking to the election in Brazil. |
| 0:45.1 | Alejandro, my colleague, Maristacio Grady, wrote a column last week for the Wall Street Journal editorial page, |
| 0:51.9 | identifying diastado Cabello, |
| 0:55.0 | the mystery of interior, |
| 0:56.3 | the guy, the thug, |
| 0:57.6 | the guy with the guns, |
| 0:58.6 | the torture, the man who runs state security, |
| 1:01.3 | and that the prison, |
| 1:04.2 | on the edge of Caracas, |
| 1:05.8 | built originally as a shopping center, |
| 1:08.0 | but now turned into a dungeon, |
| 1:09.6 | where you spent a year, is where shopping center, but now turned into a dungeon where you spent a year is where the |
| 1:13.1 | Rodriguez-Cabeo-Lopez government is holding the number was 800 political prisoners. |
| 1:24.0 | Today they're boasting that they've released 104 political prisoners. |
| 1:28.2 | Who did they release and who's still in that dungeon being abused? |
| 1:33.3 | They're releasing, except for a few cases, most of the people they're releasing are not |
| 1:41.3 | political, exposed people, they're not so influential. |
| 1:46.8 | The most importance are still in jail. |
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