Hello and welcome to the podcast this is the DSR Daily. I am D.J. R. David Rothkuff, one of your co-host.

Joined as always by Chris Kotmore how you doing Chris doing fine thank you and a

Riley fessler how you doing Riley doing well so we're at the beginning of a week it's been a action-packed weekend

worldwide people are I think shaken by everything that's going on in the world today.

What are you starting with today, Chris?

So one of the stories I was training this morning

was the Venezuelan elections where candidate Machado is looking

like the primary winner with 93% of the vote with 26% of the total vote being counted at this point.

This you know would essentially pit her against Nicholas Madero and some of the folks in terms of their response

including Debbie Wasserman Schultz, were ecstatic with the results, with the prospect

of potentially unseating Madero in Venezuela?

Yeah, it's one to watch closely.

Maria Karina Machado had taken an early lead and declared victory in this round.

Obviously Venezuela has not been Democratic in a long, time and matters a lot to the US whether it is or not not just

from a point of view of big refugee flows but also the fact that Venezuela's leading oil producer and has aligned

itself for a long time with some of the countries we have big problems with in the world including Iran.

So definitely one to watch closely.

Riley.

Well keeping in line with the election theme, Argentina also had their first primary round of elections

and it had a pretty surprise result.

We talked about Javier Malay last week as the populist candidate

that I think most people considered

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