Ione Wells
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3 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 17 Aug
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They had calculated 43 bodies that had been taken to a morgue as well.
There have been reports, too, that some civilians have been impacted by the strikes, including one older woman reportedly killed and potentially more injured as well.
So despite what Donald Trump's saying, in reality, the Venezuelan government is still in charge day to day.
And that is led by the now acting president, Delcy Rodriguez, but also other ministers who were also in power under Maduro.
The army has said that it is recognizing Delcy Rodriguez as the acting president.
So, so far, remaining loyal to her, which is really important in Venezuela because the military is hugely powerful.
Any leader would very much struggle to govern without them.
It would be potentially dangerous to attempt to do so.
I think that's a really interesting question we've had from a viewer.
What happens if Delcy Rodriguez doesn't do as Donald Trump wants?
Well, he has said...
that if she doesn't, in his words, do the right thing, code for doing what he wants, I think, that she could face the same fate as Maduro or even worse.
So I think even though the US is not actually in charge, it certainly is holding a degree of influence over the government there right now through these threats, which they have seen what could happen and what happened to Maduro.
Well, in terms of why Venezuelans aren't feeling particularly rich from it at the moment, in part, as Sumi touched on there, it is due to widespread economic mismanagement over the last couple of years, as well as corruption in the country, but also a lack of investment, really, that has led to underproduction.
It does have the biggest reserves in the world, but there's only about a million barrels produced per day, which might sound like a lot, but actually that's only 0.8% of global production.
And so this is one of the reasons that Donald Trump thinks that it has more potential for US companies to re-enter Venezuela once again.
At the moment, most of the oil that Venezuela produces goes to China.
So I think what Donald Trump is suggesting is that certainly more of that oil could go back to the US again.
In practice, though, I think we shouldn't get ahead of ourselves.
And remember, there are still big barriers to this actually happening.
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