I'm John Batchel with my good colleague Alejandro Pena Esclusosa, member of the opposition, a geopolitical thinker.

He's traveling in Europe. We turn to Venezuela news, which has been good for some time,

but I note that Ms. Machado, leader of the opposition, has not been able to return to her country,

as she hoped, and certainly has indicated that she intends to return eventually.

The news from Ms. Machado is that momentarily she'll be meeting with the President of France,

Mr. McCrone, who is a very good touchstone for democracy in South America,

most involved for many years.

However, there are voices in Venezuela that are not welcome,

and two of those voices are the people in charge of the palace, Delci Rodriguez, and the legislator.

That would be Jorge Rodriguez.

Alejandro, I want to say that all the news is positive about Venezuela, but I cannot.

So I'm going to check some things off.

Has the opposition, your people, you're representing the opposition, has it been able to open its office in Caracas?

Is that open now?

Well, the opposition in Venezuela is composed by many parties, but the most important

because Maria Corina Machado won the primary elections by landslide.

The most important party is Vente Venezuela, belonging to

Maria Corina Machado. And her office of her party was open a couple of weeks ago, but the idea

of opening the office was for her to return to Venezuela and campaign for the next elections

in order to the transition to finish in a good way.

The transition finishes good if there are elections.

And the Rodriguez, the brother, the Rodriguez brothers, which you mentioned, they're only supposed

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