Venezuela Was Not Liberated (w/ Quico Toro)
The Mona Charen Show
The Bulwark
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Quico Toro offers an insider’s perspective on his lost homeland and the American raid.
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| 0:34.4 | with Indeed. Welcome to the Mona Charrin Show show thank you so much for joining us i am delighted |
| 0:41.4 | to welcome today kiko toro who is a blogger he writes the substack 1% brighter which is about climate change |
| 0:54.1 | and it's indispensable, highly recommended. And also, |
| 1:00.7 | Kiko is from Venezuela and for many years published the Caracas Chronicles. He is currently |
| 1:06.6 | joining us from Japan. So, Kiko, thank you. |
| 1:12.1 | Good morning. |
| 1:13.4 | Thank you for joining us. |
| 1:16.5 | Is it afternoon there? |
| 1:18.4 | It's late evening. |
| 1:20.5 | It's eight in the morning here. |
| 1:22.0 | Eight in the morning for you. |
| 1:23.3 | So good morning and thank you. |
| 1:25.6 | So you had a post the day after Maduro was captured. |
| 1:33.0 | That turned out to be very prophetic. |
| 1:37.1 | You said that you saw the celebrations happening in Miami and in Madrid and in other countries at the downfall of |
| 1:48.0 | Maduro, who is obviously a very hated figure. But you noted that there were no celebrations |
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