Ione Wells
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364 appearances
21 recordings
3 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 17 Aug
Ione Wells’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Maria Corina Machado has long been the main face of Venezuela's opposition.
She was banned from running in the last elections in 2024.
but she attracted huge crowds on the election campaign.
Opposition parties united behind a candidate, Edmundo Gonzalez, to take her place, and afterwards they published tallies from electronic voting machines, which they said definitively showed they, not Nicolás Maduro, had won the election.
She has been living in hiding ever since, but briefly travelled to Oslo last year to collect the Nobel Peace Prize.
Donald Trump had made it clear he believed he should win the prize, and there is some speculation...
It is why he claimed in a news conference on Saturday that she did not have support or respect in Venezuela.
Despite this, she continued to praise his intervention in an interview with Fox News.
Since the US intervention, she has called for the release of political prisoners in Venezuela.
For months, she has advocated closer ties with the US and a free market, pro-business approach, including an opening up of the oil industry to foreign companies.
She told Fox News her movement was ready to win a free election, but she added she had not spoken to Donald Trump since 10 October.
President Trump, though, seems to have different plans.
He said the US had to fix the country before elections could be held and has reiterated his belief the US is in charge.
In reality, the Venezuelan government is still running the country, but he has threatened the new president, Delcy Rodriguez, with a worse fate than Mr Maduro if she doesn't do, in his words, the right thing.
Well, it's really hard to get reliable data on this.
The government hasn't published official death tolls so far.
We know that at least 32 Cubans were killed, who we know to be members of Maduro's security personnel, because Cubans traditionally made up most of his security network.
There is an anonymous network of doctors in Venezuela that tends to be fairly reliable.
They get data from various hospitals around the country.
They said yesterday that they had recorded at least 70 people dead from these strikes.
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