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#VENEZUELA; Broken promise sanctions. Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ

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🗓️ 1 October 2024

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#VENEZUELA; Broken promise sanctions. Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ

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0:00.0

This is a series, I on the world, I'm John Bachelor.

0:06.8

Venezuela, profoundly troubled.

0:09.8

The migrants from Venezuela are all across the United States. They want to go home, but they cannot

0:14.9

go home to a dictatorship that is now brutal to its own people and a threat to the whole hemisphere.

0:20.4

However, I welcome Mary Anastasia O'Grady, writing the America's column for the Wall Street

0:26.4

on editorial page to introduce us to the Biden administration, and either it is a willing dupe or just not paying attention to how its

0:36.6

agreements over these last years have been violated by the Maduro regime

0:41.5

consistently and yet marry a very good evening to you this involves

0:46.0

Chevron it involves oil all oil companies it involves sanctions and I believe the

0:51.6

Biden administration was seeking to reward Maduro for taking steps towards a democracy.

0:57.0

That is now a mockery after the election of July 28th in which the opposition led by a man named Gonzales Orita won

1:07.6

over twice as many votes as Maduro and yet Mary does the Biden administration have no time for Venezuela?

1:16.6

Are they thinking that this will be picked up by their successor?

1:19.7

Good evening to you, Mary.

1:21.5

Good evening, John.

1:23.0

It's hard to know what the Biden administration is thinking at this point.

1:25.9

I mean, I think we can say back two years ago that the Biden administration was gullible, that they kept thinking that if they just

1:34.9

appeased the regime a little bit more, it would eventually choose democracy over dictatorship.

1:42.8

And now the record is very clear that, you know,

1:47.6

the Biden administration was continually duped.

1:51.6

And most recently, when they thought that they were going to have a free

1:55.7

election, a fair election in Venezuela and the opposition won and yet the regime has refused to accept defeat.

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