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S8 Ep756: 7. Evan Ellis discusses the Rodriguez family's control in Venezuela. He suggests they are slow-walking democratic transitions and exploiting oil deals, hoping to outlast the Trump administration's pressure and upcoming US midterm elections.

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🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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7. Evan Ellis discusses the Rodriguez family's control in Venezuela. He suggests they are slow-walking democratic transitions and exploiting oil deals, hoping to outlast the Trump administration's pressure and upcoming US midterm elections.
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colleges here guide me through the sound of voting. However, there is one country

0:57.0

of Venezuela where the vote is in the near future, and it's also in the recent past. The vote was for

1:03.0

president. In 2024, there was an election held in Venezuela. You will recall a man named

1:09.3

Maduro, who is now detained by the federal authorities,

1:12.1

along with his wife, for narco terrorism, gang warfare, just a general bad actor. He led a

1:19.9

re-election campaign that surprisingly came from behind and took the presidency away from the man who was

1:26.8

actually elected, as the

1:29.3

voting booths were monitored from outside by well-meaning authorities, including the United

1:34.1

States of America. The actual winner of that election is a man named Gonzales. He's a member

1:39.8

of the opposition. You will recall Ms. Machado, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in these last

1:45.9

weeks, was the leader of the opposition, but was prevented from running for president by order of

1:51.1

the Maduro government. Everything's changed, but nothing's changed since then. Maduro's gone,

1:56.2

but his government looks to be in place, led by Delcey Rodriguez and her brother Jorge Rodriguez,

2:03.1

a family affair.

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