What does Trump want from Venezuela? – The Latest
Today in Focus
The Guardian
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🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:02.0 | Well, I've just come back from breakfast in the hotel here, and every single pair of eyes were just fixed on those pictures of mother coming up the helicopter. |
| 0:20.0 | Many Venezuelans |
| 0:21.0 | are going to be absolutely over the moon to see him in handcuffs finally after all these years. |
| 0:26.7 | Don't ask me who's in charge because I'll give you an answer and it'll be very controversial. |
| 0:31.4 | What does that mean? |
| 0:32.3 | Yes, we're in charge. We're in charge. |
| 0:35.1 | And yet, the big question here is has actually anything changed at all? |
| 0:39.3 | This isn't over, we don't really know what's going on. |
| 0:41.3 | Have we just actually been plunged into a deeper form of dictatorship, but one which is now supported by the US? |
| 0:47.3 | Nicholas Maduro is in a New York courthouse to face drug charges. |
| 0:52.3 | So what does all this mean for Venezuelans facing an uncertain |
| 0:55.9 | future? From The Guardians today in focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Hoff. |
| 1:05.1 | Joining me is Tom Phillips, the Guardian's Latin America correspondent. |
| 1:12.9 | Thanks for being with us, Tom. |
| 1:13.9 | I know it's been an extraordinarily busy few days for you. |
| 1:17.9 | So tell me about where you are, because you were on the Venezuela-Columbia border right. |
| 1:23.0 | What's the feeling where you are and what kind of conversations are you having with people? |
| 1:27.2 | That's right. I'm a couple of kilometres away from the Venezuelan border now in a Colombian town called Kukuta, right here very late last night. |
| 1:34.8 | And we've come here to try and try and get a sense of what is going on, how people are feeling there is a huge Venezuelan community here over the past 10, 11 years since this massive exodus of Venezuelan started. |
| 1:47.7 | Millions, more than 2 million have poured through this border into Colombia. |
| 1:51.2 | So there are a lot of Venezuelans here and we want to hear how they're feeling about this completely incredible situation. |
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