Ione Wells
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364 appearances
21 recordings
3 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 17 Aug
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One is, will these companies want to invest in a country that is politically, socially, economically risky and unstable still at the moment?
Two is that oil prices are quite low at the moment.
There's an oversupply of oil globally, meaning that, again, it's not a particularly attractive time to be investing.
And three, the security question, too.
I think companies will be wondering whether or not it is sort of safe and secure for them to be acting in the country right now.
Yes, there's a couple of points here.
Constitutionally, in Venezuela, in theory, if they've sworn in an acting president, they are meant to have elections within 30 days.
Now, I understand there is a mechanism for that to be extended at least once or twice.
But certainly, as you say, Donald Trump has said that he doesn't think that's a realistic timeline and that, in his words, the U.S.
needs to fix the country before there can be elections.
Now, contrast that with what we've heard from the opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado.
She said...
that her party, the opposition movement, would be prepared to go and contest free and fair elections again, which they are confident they would win.
After the last elections in 2024, they published what were seen to be reliable voting tallies from electronic voting machines saying that they, not Maduro, had won that election.
But she has been somewhat, I say somewhat, majorly sidelined by Donald Trump so far.
He said that she doesn't have the respect and support in Venezuela, something which I think many of the opposition would contest.
Well, look, I think to put it bluntly, Donald Trump has made it pretty clear what could happen to government ministers or the acting president in Venezuela if they don't do what he says.
It is still a sovereign country.
He doesn't suddenly have the right to control Venezuela.
But I think he's made it clear that he feels he can control them through these kinds of threats.
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