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Venezuelan Opposition Leader Maria Corina Machado

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Four months after the US invaded Caracas and captured leader Nicolas Maduro, what has become of the promise of democratic elections? It’s a question on the mind of our first guest. Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado is now in exile after a risky departure to accept her Nobel Peace Prize late last year — a prize she promptly gave to Trump. She joins Christiane from Washington.  Also on today's show: Omer Bartov, Author, “Israel: What Went Wrong”; journalist/author Bob Davis    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to Amunpur. Here's what's coming up.

0:12.0

We're doing well in Venezuela, right? It's working good.

0:16.0

Four months after the United States snatched Maduro from the Venezuelan presidency, does the country have a democratic future?

0:23.6

I ask exiled opposition leader and Nobel laureate Maria Corinna Machado.

0:28.6

Then...

0:29.6

We've not done well on the propaganda war.

0:31.6

As Israel standing with Americans continues to plummet,

0:35.6

I speak to genocide scholar Omer Bartoff about his new book,

0:40.3

Israel, what went wrong, and why he believes the nation is facing a moral and political reckoning.

0:46.3

Also ahead. Unemployment shied up. People were laid off constantly.

0:50.3

How the flood of Chinese imports reshaped America and what it reveals about the future of global trade.

0:57.0

Veteran journalist Bob Davis joins Hari Srinivasan ahead of Trump's'm Christian Amunpur in London. A leader deposed a newly pliant regime

1:30.3

and enriched uranium safely removed from the actual country. What sounds like President Trump's

1:37.9

ideal endgame for Iran is in fact already unfolding in Venezuela. Four months after the U.S. invaded Caracas and captured the leader Nicolas Maduro,

1:50.9

major oil companies are working to ink production deals as the White House pushes to unlock

1:57.5

Venezuela's vast energy reserves.

2:00.0

The United States Department of Energy has announced that, in fact, enriched uranium was removed

2:06.0

from the country and flown to South Carolina.

2:10.0

Another sign of the close ties being forged between Washington and the interim president,

2:16.0

Delci Rodriguez.

2:20.4

But as Trump revels in this new partnership,

2:27.1

what has become of the promise of democracy and democratic elections? It's a question on the mind of millions of Venezuelans, including our first guest tonight, that is Maria Corna Machado, the opposition leader in exile.

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