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, that is well

without Maduro would be a much better place. Brook 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 is shrunk by something like 50% since he took over.

And also in terms of the political and humanitarian situation, people are hungry, people are fleeing.

He's steadily irrigated more and more power to himself to the point where Venezuela can now only

really be described as the 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, amending Juan Guaidó.

Assumir formalmente a la competencia. We proclaimed himself the country's interim president.

On the grounds that Maduro is no longer the legitimate president. And what this has done is it's

kind of galvanized the opposition to Maduro, which had been really kind of defeated and

demoralized and divided up until that point. And as important, countries such as the United States

and Canada and most of the major economies in South America have agreed to recognize Mr. Guaidó

as the country's interim president. So now you have a focus of legitimacy and power in opposition

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