What’s Next in Venezuela?

Fareed Zakaria GPS

CNN

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4.3 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Now that US President Donald Trump has removed Venezuela’s head of state and says America will “run” the country for the time being, Fareed assesses the fallout and likely next developments with International Crisis Group Senior Fellow Phil Gunson and New York Times correspondent David Sanger.  GUESTS: Phil Gunson (@philgunson), David Sanger (@SangerNYT), Richard Haass (@RichardHaass), Zanny Minton Beddoes (@zannymb), Karim Sadjadpour (@ksadjadpour), Ruchir Sharma Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is GPS, the Global Public Square.
0:04.0	Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world.
0:07.0	I'm Farid Zakaria, coming to you live from New York.
0:11.0	Today we'll devote much of the program to yesterday's extraordinary events in Venezuela,
0:17.0	the capture of a sitting head of state, President Nicolas Maduro and his removal to the United States to face justice.
0:24.6	The big question, of course, what happens next?
0:27.6	I will talk to one of the smartest outside observers of Venezuela, Phil Gunson, live from that country's capital, Caracas.
0:35.6	Then, what precedent does this American action set for the rest of the world?
0:41.3	I'll talk about that and more with Richard Haas and Zany Minton Bedros.
0:45.3	Then, Iran, the people are rising up and taking to the streets once again in the largest protests
0:52.3	since the 22 killing of Masa Amini.
0:57.0	What does this mean for the future of that regime?
1:00.0	I'll discuss with the Carnegie Endowments Karim Sajdapur.
1:04.0	I bring you my take later in the show, but I wanted to get straight to the big news of this weekend.
1:12.3	Osted Venezuelan President, Nicolas Maduro, woke up this morning at the Metropolitan Detention Center in New York City.
1:19.9	Around 24 hours after he was woken in the middle of the night by U.S. Special Forces and FBI agents
1:26.5	and taken on a journey that ended in Brooklyn.
1:30.6	The raid and coinciding strikes on military installations
1:34.0	and communications infrastructure in Venezuela
1:36.8	followed months of escalating U.S. attacks
1:40.5	on alleged drugboats, oil tankers,
1:43.1	and a port facility in Venezuela.
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