What’s Happening Inside Venezuela w/ Dr. Rodrigo Acuña

What’s Happening Inside Venezuela w/ Dr. Rodrigo Acuña
A person flutters a national flag in Caracas on January 3, 2026, after US forces captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro. President Donald Trump said Saturday that US forces had captured Venezuela's leader Nicolas Maduro after bombing the capital Caracas and other cities in a dramatic climax to a months-long standoff between Trump and his Venezuelan arch-foe. (Photo by Federico PARRA / AFP via Getty Images)

Our first new episode of 2026!

Trump attacks Venezuela and kidnaps President Nicholas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, and declares that U.S. will be “running” Venezuela. And as we know, it’s all about the oil, not drugs or democracy.

Listen in:

In our latest we talk with Rodrigo Acuña about the situation on the ground and how Venezuelans are reacting to the attack.

Bio//
Dr. Rodrigo Acuña (@rodrigoac7) works as an independent journalist/commentator on Latin America and for the NSW Department of Education. You can subscribe to his “Newsletter on Latin America” which we’ll put in the show notes. He has been writing on Latin American politics for close to twenty years. He made the documentary ‘Venezuela: The Cost of Challenging an Empire’ (2024) with journalist Nicolas Ford.

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