US ramps up pressure on Venezuela, Snubs Europe

Amanpour

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Is time running out for Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro? Christiane asks Colombia's former president Ivan Duque why he supports Trump's aggressive stance against the country next door. And while the U.S. president has his eye on Latin America, the White House is snubbing Europe again, opting not to send Secretary of State Marco Rubio to a NATO foreign minister meeting. Julianne Smith, former US Ambassador to NATO, speaks to Christiane about transatlantic tension, and those marathon peace talks between Trump's team and Putin that appeared to produce nothing. Plus, Oedipus on Broadway! Christiane speaks to stars Lesley Manville and Mark Strong about modernizing the 2,5000-year-old Greek tragedy, and playing a mother and son in love. From the archives, we revisit a 1988 mutiny in a New Jersey monastery, and remember legendary playwright Tom Stoppard. Air date: December 6, 2025 Guests: Ivan Duque Julianne Smith Lesley Manville & Mark Strong Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome to the Ammanpur hour. Here's where we're headed this week.
0:12.0	Why a key Latin American nation supporting Trump as he openly mulled strikes on Venezuela?
0:19.0	I asked Colombia's former president, Ivan Duque, is it all over for
0:23.0	Nicolas Maduro? Then, another day, another U.S. snub, this time, Secretary of State Rubio,
0:28.9	skips the NATO summit as peace talks with Russia's stall. What could bring more success?
0:34.3	Former U.S. ambassador to NATO, Julianne Smith, joins me.
0:37.5	This is serious business, and you need people who are familiar with the classic Russian plays.
0:44.7	Also ahead.
0:45.3	Now, it goes in deep, deep into this mountain.
0:50.1	A rare look inside the ruins of Hezbollah's tunnels as Israel continues pounding southern Lebanon.
0:56.3	And there's an audience you literally are just pulled forward into your in your seat and you just want to find out what happens.
1:01.8	The Broadway play that's got audiences rooting for a son who marries his mother.
1:06.8	No, really, I talk to Edipa stars, Leslie Manville, and Mark Strong.
1:11.6	Then, a social media ban? They're having none of it, as the world delights in the rebellion of three octogenarian, cloistered Catholics.
1:19.6	From my archive, how new technology created a similar monastic mutiny in New Jersey, 1988.
1:30.6	The devil is at work, and we have to combat it.
1:35.7	Welcome to the program, everyone.
1:37.3	I'm Christiana Manpur in London.
1:42.6	Well, it has been a very bad week for Nicolas Maduro in Latin America and the Caribbean.
1:45.7	Elections in Honduras and St. Vincent and the Grenadines ousted his allies. The Venezuelan dictator seems to be losing friends and influence.
1:51.5	As President Trump this week warned, strikes on that country will begin, quote, soon.
1:57.0	We're going to start doing those strikes on land, too. You know, the land is much easier.
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