Luis Martinez

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189 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 17 Jan

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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

A lot of Venezuelan opposition leaders who have gone into exile end up being irrelevant for the Venezuelan dynamic internally.

Now her being outside, will she return?

Will Maria Corina Machado and or Edmundo Gonzalez return to Venezuela while Delcy Rodriguez is still the interim president?

That would be very interesting to see and see if President Trump starts more publicly backing Machado before any potential elections so that the armed forces understand that they can't just play a...

try and do a coup like, for example, in Myanmar.

And I think the Myanmar example is very similar.

You had a Nobel Peace Prize winner who came into power, but not long after that, the military took power again and the dictatorship continued.

So yeah, we'll see how that plays out.

And I think what it's important to understand is

The transition needs to be slow so that it doesn't erupt into violence so that the people in the armed forces don't feel like, hey, I'm getting the short end of the stick here and I've got the rifles so I can take control of the country once again and make it more problematic for the US.

Because that's something that the Trump administration doesn't want.

Troops on the ground and seeing a violent revolt or innocent people being killed, that would be bad press and just bad strategy for them.

Well, I actually have high hopes for that to happen.

You have Operation Southern Spear pretty much cutting down 97% of drugs being trafficked by water.

And most of the ones coming out of Venezuela were coming that way.

They also have the oil quarantine around Venezuela.

So the country won't be able to make money unless they walk the line that the U.S.

is setting for them.

We already heard...

from Delcy Rodriguez that she's going to propose to reform the hydrocarbon law in Venezuela to allow for American companies to come in, American oil companies.

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