Luis Martinez

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The President's Daily Brief · PDB Situation Report | January 17th, 2026: If the U.S. Hits Iran: A Fighter Pilot Breaks It Down & Venezuela at a Crossroads · 17 Jan 2026 podcast

And as you'd say, not in the room, not in the negotiating room with the regime.

So that's the tricky business.

Because if we lived in an ideal world, us Venezuelans, we would have loved Operation Absolute Resolve, take Maduro out, put Machado in or Edmundo Gonzalez, and everyone's happy for it.

And then everyone falls in line and we transit into democracy.

But that's not how it works.

Of course, the armed forces, the security forces, the national police, pretty much...

The people with guns in Venezuela are still there.

They're the regime.

They're still there.

Everyone's still there.

Vladimir Padrino Lopez, still the minister of defense, and Diosal Cabello, still the minister of interior.

And Desi Rodriguez was the handpicked vice president of Nicolás Maduro.

And her brother is the president of the National Assembly.

So it's almost as very little has changed in Venezuela except Venezuela.

that now the regime has the constant threat of U.S.

military action and pressure from the Trump administration.

And of course, the oil quarantine, which is going to cut all the income that the regime was making with oil sales to China and other countries buying sanctioned Venezuelan oil.

So yes, Manuel Corina Machado has to

remain relevant politically, because hopefully, and Marco Rubio has talked about this at the end of this three-phase process, we will see elections.

Likely, she will be a candidate, but we've seen this in the past.

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