US Military Posturing, Venezuela's Cartel de Los Soles, and Instability in the Americas Professor Evan Ellis analyzed President Trump's escalating military posturing and actions against drug cartels, particularly impacting the Venezuelan regime of Nicolá
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🗓️ 10 October 2025
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US Military Posturing, Venezuela's Cartel de Los Soles, and Instability in the Americas
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| 0:36.2 | This is the New World Report with Professor Evan Ellis. |
| 0:37.3 | I'm John Batchelor. |
| 0:38.7 | Two headlines competing. |
| 0:42.6 | Columbia's Petro suggests last vessel bombed by U.S. was Colombian. |
| 0:49.8 | The president of Colombia, a long time, very trustworthy ally of the United States, |
| 0:53.6 | is getting into the fray in Venezuela in a peculiar fashion, given his conduct recently, is called |
| 0:56.0 | into question his organization, his politics, his person. At the same time, we have a |
| 1:03.0 | competing story, breaking news, fog of war, what we know about the attack on Ecuador President |
| 1:09.8 | Naboha's car. |
| 1:10.9 | I read from the Reuters remade in these last hours, and the story will be updated. |
| 1:15.6 | This was an assassination attempt on a president of the Americas. |
| 1:19.6 | Ecuadorian President Daniel Naboha escaped injury after his convoy was attacked by protesters in a rural town |
| 1:26.6 | in what the government is labeling an assassination |
| 1:28.8 | attempt, highlighting the country's growing political tensions. Competing stories here, Professor, |
| 1:34.8 | we just have a few minutes. The attack on Naboi is not too surprising, although there |
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