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

Venezuelan professionals who are all over the world, including over 786,000 here in the US to go back.

And these are people with college degrees from one of the best universities in South America that used to be in Venezuela.

So it's also a country that has the human capital to kickstart its economy and get back on track.

Yes, that's correct.

So 2024, July, there was an election in Venezuela.

The ballots are there and they're in the vault of the Panamanian National Bank that proved that Edmundo Gonzalez won with, I think it's more than 78% of the votes in

Now, as we've mentioned in the previous segment, you can't just replace Maduro and install Edmundo Gonzalez and pretend that everything's going to work that way.

I think that there's a game to be played right now, according to the Venezuelan constitution.

Not that the Constitution has mattered much for the past 27 years, but according to the Constitution, if there is a vacancy of power, the president is absent for some external commotion, as might be the case of being captured and taken to federal prison.

The vice president takes over for a period of 180 days before having to call elections.

And I think that's what we're going to see.

We're going to see the regime led by Desi Rodriguez play out, pretend that they're following the norms, pretend that they're following the Constitution, have this six-month period of grace and of negotiations with the Trump administration, and then...

call for elections.

We don't know that's going to be within a month after that 180-day period or when.

And I guess the worst case scenario is that Desi Rodriguez ends up finishing Nicolás Maduro's term in office, which run until 2031.

I see that as highly unlikely because we've already heard

from Marco Rubio that at the end of this process, free and fair elections, and it seemed more like a midterm goal, not like a long-term goal.

And we've already seen also pressure from a lot of Republican senators calling for elections as soon as possible.

Now, also very important, Edmundo Gonzalez was the one who won the elections last year that were then stolen by Nicolás Maduro, not Maria Karina Machado.

She was barred from running in those elections.

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