The Venezuelan Perspective

Deconstructed

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🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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At the end of July, Venezuelans head to the polls to elect a new president, with Nicolás Maduro seeking another six-year term. This week on Deconstructed, Ryan Grim speaks with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil Pinto, who was in New York for a U.N. debate on unilateral sanctions. Fresh from visits to China and Russia, where he engaged with BRICS alliance leaders, Pinto discusses Venezuela's bid to join this coalition aimed at countering Western economic dominance. They delve into the impacts of sanctions from the Trump and Biden administrations on Venezuela's economy and migration crisis, and the battle over Citgo, a U.S.-based oil company acquired by the country in 1990. Grim also questions Venezuela's human rights record.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Deconsstructed, I'm Ryan Grim.
0:05.0	At the end of July, Venezuelans will go to the polls to elect a new president,
0:10.0	with Nicholas Maduro hoping for another six-year term.
0:14.0	Venezuelan migration to the United States meanwhile has become a major issue in our own presidential campaign
0:19.0	as the Biden administration continues to slap sanctions on Venezuela and wreak havoc on its economy.
0:24.3	Today we're joined by Venezuelan foreign minister Yvonne Gilpinto who was in New York for a
0:30.5	debate at the United Nations on unilateral sanctions. He had just returned from a visit
0:35.1	to China and Russia where he met with leaders of what is known as the BRICS Alliance.
0:39.2	BRICS, which is an intergovernmental coalition in more than 20 countries
0:43.6	stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa.
0:47.0	It's an effort by global South countries to build an economic power base
0:51.0	strong enough to balance the west.
0:54.1	With the U.S. showing little interest in cooperating with Venezuela, we talked at length
0:58.5	about Venezuela's bid to join BRICS and his recent trip to China.
1:02.8	All of this is happening while the US is using its court system
1:06.2	to seize the US subsidiary of Venezuela's energy company,
1:09.7	Citgo.
1:10.8	It's quite an incredible story. The US recognizes a Venezuelan government in exile and is
1:17.0	allowing that government, which isn't really a government in any serious way, to
1:21.4	basically give away a huge piece of sit-go. The irony is that the brazen move
1:27.0	is shocking to the Venezuelan public and even hawkish figures like Elliot Abrams, a Reagan and Trump official who previously tried to
1:35.1	overthrow the Venezuelan government, said the timing of the attempted seizure is terrible,
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