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Caracas Venezuela, the Reuters headline, Venezuela launches investigation against opposition leaders

amid protest crackdown. There have been more than a thousand arrests in Venezuela since the vote regarded as corrupted

by the international community, the US, the EU, Argentina, members of the around the world democracies.

However, since then, there have been on again, off again threats against the leaders of the

opposition.

Most recently, the threat was off.

Now it looks to be back on, searching in some fashion online

and in person for the opposition leaders that would be Maria Karina Machado

the woman who would have been president but she was disenfranchised by lawfare in

Venezuela the Maduro regime, and Bundo Gonzales who stood in for Maria

Karina and is now the elected president recognized by such as the United States as the honest

president winning 70 to 30 percent however I welcome a Van Estradner of the

foundation for the defensive democracies who's written very carefully

not just about the obvious the corruption of the Maduro regime and the

brutality of the Venezuela authorities augmented by Cuban security, but also about

Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin and its ambitions in Caracas.

Ivana, a very good evening to you what does Putin want with Madura what you

sissy good evening to good evening thank you very much for inviting me so

what you just mentioning the news it absolutely didn't come as a surprise for anyone who has been following Venezuela because

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