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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Venezuela’s Crisis Deepens

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate

News, Daily News, News Commentary, Politics

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2019

⏱️ 19 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. Tell us what you think by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts or sending an email to [email protected]. Follow us on Instagram for updates on the show. Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, and Anna Martin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.0

Hello.

0:38.0

Hi.

0:41.0

Hi.

0:42.0

Hey, Anna, it's Mary.

0:44.0

Okay, hi.

0:45.0

Anna Vanessa Herrero is a journalist in Venezuela, works for the New York Times.

0:50.0

Hey, what's happening?

0:52.0

Well, a lot.

0:53.0

My way though, speaking right now alive from Babuta.

0:56.0

When we connected, she was actually watching the opposition leader Juan Guaidó, give a speech on YouTube.

1:01.0

Anna was there four weeks ago when Guaidó declared himself the country's new president on a Caracas street corner.

1:08.0

The question then, what would the sitting president, Nicholas Maduro do next?

1:13.0

Yeah.

1:14.0

And I remember you telling me like there's no way he's going to just leave.

1:18.0

And I feel like we know that better than ever now.

1:22.0

And we have that confirmed by the vice president of Venezuela, Darcy Rodriguez, who the Sunday said that,

1:30.0

and everything that we saw on Saturday was just a small, a tiny amount of what they are capable of doing.

1:38.0

I think that's a lot.

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