Vijay Prashad, Andreína Chávez and José Luis Granados Ceja discuss what just happened in Venezuela, why it happened and what comes next.
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00:00:00 Intro
00:03:00 Venezuelan journalist Andreína Chávez on experiencing strike
00:10:10 Maduro supporters take to the streets
00:14:50 Andreína Chávez debunks anti Maduro talking points
00:20:20 José and Vijay enter chat
00:21:05 U.S. Interventionism is both predictable AND shocking
00:26:00 Video: Trump openly admits this is about oil, might makes right, etc
00:30:50 Vijay rejects Katie’s “Trump is empire unmasked” claim because it obscures structure of imperialism
00:38:00 José says “US has lost the struggle for global hegemony to China”
00:40:40 parallels with Qasem Soleimani *(clip)
00:46:00 Hakeem Jeffries’ CRINGE statement statement
00:51:30 Israel’s role in Venezuela attack
00:55:37 Maduro vs. “demonic, pedophilic imperialist monsters”
01:07:45 ‘Sanctioned oil’ is not a thing
01:09:30 Who is Vice President Delcy Rodríguez? Katie asks panel about VP
01:09:45 Video: Trump says VP Delcy Rodríguez is now president
01:10:30 Video: VP Delcy Rodríguez declares loyalty to Maduro
01:12:00 Trump’s comments are “psychological warfare”
01:15:20 What’s wrong with María Corina Machado?
01:20:00 José on what is happening in Mexico
01:24:10 Video: Colombian President Gustavo Petro calls out Trump and Epstein
01:29:40 Katie thanks everyone
Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian and journalist. He is the author of forty books, including Washington Bullets, Red Star Over the Third World, The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World, The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South, and The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power, written with Noam Chomsky. Vijay is the executive director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, the chief correspondent for Globetrotter, and the chief editor of LeftWord Books (New Delhi). He also appeared in the films Shadow World (2016) and Two Meetings (2017).
Andreína Chávez is a Venezuelan journalist, based in Caracas.
José Luis Granados Ceja (@GranadosCeja https://twitter.com/granadosceja?lang=en) is a writer and photojournalist based in Mexico City. He previously worked as a staff writer for teleSUR and currently works on a freelance basis. He is also the host of the Soberanía podcast co-host of the Soberanía podcast. His stories focus on contemporary political issues, particularly those that involve grassroots efforts to affect social change. He often covers the work of social and labor movements in Latin America. Follow him on Twitter: @GranadosCeja (https://twitter.com/granadosceja?lang=en)
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