Hello and welcome to The Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Earlier this week, America's Justice Department filed a striking indictment of Huawei,

a Chinese technology firm suspected of being chummy with the communist government.

That's going to make the bilateral trade talks that start today

even more tense than the last round.

And it's getting easier to get good quality Indian food in the truck stops of America.

There's a demographic shift going on

in trucking, and with it comes a whole new genre of music. But first, Venezuela without Maduro

would be a much better place. Brooke Unger is America's editor at The Economist. He's governed the

country for the past six years.

They've been six disastrous years, both in terms of what's happened to the economy,

which has shrunk by something like 50% since he took over.

And also in terms of, you know, the political and humanitarian situation.

People are hungry, people are fleeing.

He's steadily arrogated more and more power to himself

to the point where

Venezuela can now only really be described as a dictatorship. But President Nicolas Maduro suddenly

faces a resurgent opposition that the international community is all too ready to back. New

oil sanctions are coming into force, and as protests have boiled over, Mr. Maduro has hinted at negotiations with the opposition

leader.

All of a sudden, the opposition in Venezuela has kind of got its mojo back.

The National Assembly, which is legitimately elected, named as its president, a man named

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