Venezuela’s phantom coup

Worldly

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.4 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Zack, Jenn, and Alex discuss the strange non-coup in Venezuela this week. Juan Guaidó, the parliament leader the US considers the country’s legitimate president, claimed the military was about to overthrow actual President Nicolás Maduro in a Tuesday video — and then nothing happened. The Worldly crew discusses how we got here, what this could mean, and the US role in all of this. On Elsewhere, they do the show’s first dive into art history, looking at a poster from Germany’s far-right party that prominently features a 19th-century Orientalist painting. Links: Alex has an explainer on how the Guaidó-Maduro standoff began. Here’s the Guaidó video with English subtitles, and the video of protesters being run over. Alex also explains the Guaidó video and how it kicked off a week of protest and chaos. The full Patrick Shanahan and John Bolton tweets, and Mike Pompeo on Fox Business. America’s spotty record in Latin America, briefly explained. Here’s why Trump’s Venezuela envoy, Elliott Abrams, doesn’t have the most trustworthy record. Anti-interventionists have lived in Venezuela’s embassy in Washington for weeks, and that’s led to clashes between them and ati-Maduro activists. An art publication explains the ins and outs of the AfD “Slave Market” saga. You can also read the booklet we cited about the painting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:02.2	at Intel.com slash stories. There's supposed to be a coup in Venezuela this week, but then the military didn't show up.
1:22.0	Today we're going to talk about this update in Venezuela
1:25.2	on worldly part of the Fox Media Podcast network. I'm Zach Beisham here as always with
1:29.2	Jan Williams and Alex Ward. Hi. Hello. So we've talked about Venezuela before, but Alex, real quick background for people who haven't been
1:35.8	following or don't fully remember what we talked about last time.
1:39.1	Sure. So on January 23rd, a guy named Juan Guaido, he's the National Assembly leader, basically their Congress,
1:46.0	and he declared himself the interim president of Venezuela.
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