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US Escalates Pressure on Maduro Following Machado's Nobel Prize. Evan Ellis discusses how, following the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to opposition leader María Corina Machado, the US escalated pressure on Venezuela. President Trump authorized CIA operations

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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US Escalates Pressure on Maduro Following Machado's Nobel Prize. Evan Ellis discusses how, following the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to opposition leader María Corina Machado, the US escalated pressure on Venezuela. President Trump authorized CIA operations, coupled with naval deployments and B-52 overflights, to pressure the Maduro regime. The goal is triggering a tipping point where Maduro's inner circle calculates that leaving is preferable to facing US action. Separately, Peru's President Boluarte was ousted due to corruption and the nation's struggle with extreme urban violence and illegal mining.

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I'm a jobatchel with my good colleague, Evan Ellis. We're in all directions in the Americas

0:28.9

right now for the New America Report. We leave Caracas, the troubled Caracas,

0:34.7

and we go to the troubled Ecuador, the whole country.

0:43.5

This is the headline in Americas, America's from Reuters now.

0:48.6

Explosions hit Ecuador bridges days after illegal mining crackdown.

0:56.5

Subhead, the detonation of explosive devices on two bridges in Ecuador was escalation for a major military operation against illegal miners, according to the country's interior minister. You will all recall

1:02.1

there was a young president endorsed recently by an election, Daniel Leboa, in Ecuador. You will

1:08.4

all recall that Ecuador was one of the favorite routes of passage from

1:14.7

Asia, for example, into the United States. You fly into Ecuador, you cross into Colombia,

1:21.4

and then you're under the Darien Gap, and in Texas. However, all that has been closed down,

1:27.3

to my knowledge. Ecuador is ripped by

1:30.2

gang warfare and narco-terrorism is the least of it. Mendobella last week is said to have survived

1:38.0

an assassination attempt, so-called by indigenous people when he toured a part of the country

1:43.5

that is in turmoil because of mining

1:46.2

and illegal mining. Professor, the blowing up of bridges, who has the strength to do this in

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