The Standoff Over Food and Power in Venezuela

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🗓️ 11 February 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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The humanitarian crisis in Venezuela is worsening as President Nicolás Maduro refuses to give up power and blocks food from entering the country despite widespread hunger. Here’s a look at why, in Mr. Maduro’s mind, giving up control of food means giving up power. Guest: Nicholas Casey, the Andes bureau chief for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:25.6	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro.
0:32.6	This is the Daily.
0:40.6	Today, the crisis in Venezuela is worsening.
0:45.3	As President Maduro refuses to give up power and is blocking food from entering the country
0:51.5	as his people starve.
0:53.9	Why in Maduro's mind, giving up control of food is giving up power.
1:02.5	It's Monday, February 11.
1:08.8	Nick Casey, where are you right now?
1:11.2	I'm on the border of Venezuela.
1:13.0	I'm on the Colombian side of the border, which has become one of the ground zeroes
1:17.4	of this crisis.
1:18.4	This is where hundreds of thousands of people, Venezuelans, have crossed the border
1:22.9	looking for food because there isn't any on the other side of the border.
1:28.9	Nick Casey covers South America for the times.
1:32.1	People don't have food.
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