Hey, everyone. Welcome to From the Kitchen Table. I'm Sean Duffy, along with my co-host for the podcast, my partner in life, and my wife Rachel Campbell, Stuffy.

It's great to be at the kitchen table, Sean, and it's great to be joined by my sister Leah.

Leah is a Latin American expert.

She's been following the developments in Latin America for decades now.

And, of course, the situation in Venezuela is really heating up. This is a very

precarious moment, very obvious that the election was stolen, that the dictator Maduro lost. He's not

yet conceded that he has lost, but, and the opposition is continuing to fight for their freedom,

and they're on the streets in something we've never seen before.

If you're ever going to pray for Venice well, Sean, now is the time.

So let me bring in my sister Leah.

Leah, welcome to the kitchen table.

I want to get an idea from you of what's happening, but maybe also we need to talk about

what has led to this, because American foreign policy has been enabling this dictatorship

and they've been, you know, trying to give them concessions to the regime and in exchange for fair elections, which obviously didn't happen.

Yeah.

Hey, Rachel and Sean.

Nice to be here with you guys by phone this time.

Yes.

Well, I mean, look, I come at this as someone who, as you guys know, is not much of a interventionist abroad.

But, you know, Venezuela is actually very important to us because part of the very serious migrant problem has been fueled by the dysfunction in Venezuela.

I mean, there are,

there are numbers showing somewhere around 800,000, you know,

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