The Opposition Comes for Venezuela’s Maduro
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Slate Podcasts
4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2019
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
How Venezuelans reached a breaking point, and how a team of savvy politicians orchestrated the break. No one expected the greatest threat of a proxy war to come out of South America -- right?
Guests: Ana Vanessa Herrero, reporter for the New York Times. Josh Keating, senior editor of foreign affairs for Slate.
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| 0:00.0 | Did you sleep last night? |
| 0:07.1 | Not at all. |
| 0:08.1 | Not at all. |
| 0:08.6 | I mean, well, I slept, I think, four hours, three hours or something. |
| 0:13.0 | Anna Vanessa Herrero lives in Caracas, Venezuela. |
| 0:15.8 | She's a reporter for the New York Times. |
| 0:17.7 | So, you know, I just, I have three days waking up at 6 a.m. and sleeping at 3 a.m. |
| 0:25.1 | in the morning. Oh, you've been doing that for the last three days. Yeah, since Monday. Yeah. |
| 0:30.9 | All week long, Anna's been covering these protests. Thousands of people demanding that President |
| 0:36.0 | Nicholas Maduro stepped down. |
| 0:38.3 | Then on Wednesday, Anna was there when a new leader, |
| 0:41.1 | 35-year-old Juan Guaido, declared that he was Venezuela's actual president. |
| 0:52.7 | She watched as Guido gave himself the oath of office on a Caracas street. |
| 0:58.3 | I was in the middle of tens of thousands of people raising their hands. |
| 1:07.6 | You know, saying, I swear to protect this country, to protect the constitution. |
| 1:11.9 | As he was threatened in, he also asked the people to do the same |
| 1:15.7 | because the speech they're on right now is, |
| 1:20.0 | this is not only my job. This is everyone's job. |
| 1:24.1 | Jura! |
| 1:47.1 | Assumil formally singing the national anthem. They were hugging. You know, they expressed so much hope. I haven't seen that for a long time in Venezuela. It was really overwhelming. |
| 1:54.5 | So who's running Venezuela? |
| 2:02.7 | Is it Nicholas Maduro or the new guy, Juan Guaido? |
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