The Opposition Comes for Venezuela’s Maduro

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🗓️ 25 January 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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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. Tell us what you think by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts or sending an email to [email protected]. Follow us on Instagram for updates on the show. Podcast production by Mary Wilson and Jayson De Leon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What did you sleep last night?
0:07.1	Not at all.
0:08.1	Not at all.
0:09.1	I mean, well, I slept, I think, four hours, three hours or something.
0:13.1	Anna Vanessa Herrero lives in Caracas, Venezuela.
0:15.9	She's a reporter for the New York Times.
0:17.8	So, you know, I just, I have three days waking up at 6 a.m. and sleeping at 3 a.m. in
0:25.2	the morning.
0:26.2	Oh, you've been doing that for the last three days?
0:28.5	Yeah, since Monday, yeah.
0:31.1	All week long, Anna's been covering these protests.
0:34.5	Thousands of people demanding that President Nicholas Maduro step down.
0:38.5	Then on Wednesday, Anna was there when a new leader, 35-year-old Juan Guaidó, declared
0:43.5	that he was Venezuela's actual president.
0:53.2	She watched as Guaidó give himself the oath of office on a Caracas street.
0:58.3	I was in the middle of tens of thousands of people racing their hands.
1:02.4	President La Samblega Nacional invocando los artículos de la Constitución.
1:07.7	You know, saying I swear to protect this country, to protect the Constitution, as he was
1:12.6	thrown in, he also asked the people to do the same because the speech they're on right
1:19.3	now is this is not only my job.
1:22.1	This is everyone's job.
1:24.5	Juro!
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