Venezuela’s Crisis Deepens
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Slate Podcasts
4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2019
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
As violence erupts on the Venezuelan border, Vice President Mike Pence makes his way to Colombia to reaffirm American support for the opposition leader, Juan Guaido. How far is the U.S. willing to go? And will this be remembered as the weekend everything changed?
Guest: Ana Vanessa Herrero, reporter at the New York Times. Joshua Keating, international editor at Slate.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:01.0 | Hello. |
| 0:02.0 | Anna, it's Mary. |
| 0:03.0 | Anna, Vanessa Herrero is a journalist in Venezuela. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello. |
| 0:06.0 | Hello. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi. |
| 0:08.0 | Hannah, I'm |
| 0:10.0 | Mary. |
| 0:11.0 | Okay, hi. |
| 0:12.0 | Anna, Vanessa Herrero is a journalist in Venezuela. |
| 0:16.0 | Works for the New York Times. |
| 0:18.0 | Hey, what's happening? |
| 0:20.0 | Well, a lot. Pangello is speaking right now alive from in Venezuela. Works for the New York Times. Bada on Sada. Hey, what's happening? |
| 0:21.4 | Well, a lot. |
| 0:23.1 | Van Wido is speaking right now alive from Bogota. |
| 0:25.5 | When we connected, she was actually watching the opposition leader, Juan Guaido, give a speech on YouTube. |
| 0:31.0 | Anna was there four weeks ago when Guaido declared himself the country's new president on a Caracas street corner. |
| 0:38.7 | The question then, |
| 0:45.1 | what would the sitting president, Nicholas Maduro, do next? Yeah. And I remember you telling me, |
| 0:51.2 | like, there's no way he's going to just leave. And I feel like we know that better than ever now. |
| 0:55.7 | And we have that confirmed by the vice president of Venezuela. |
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