Noel King

You know that the U.S.

has been attacking boats, alleging that these are drug traffickers bringing drugs from Venezuela.

How are people in Venezuela responding to these attacks at sea by the U.S.?

I can understand how the story of the men in boats, the fishermen you spoke to, becomes small given a much broader economic crisis.

I wonder about something else, though.

President Trump recently suggested that the United States might start land strikes in Venezuela.

The people that you've spoken to, are they not rejecting the idea because they want Maduro out?

Raise your hand if you want to be a slave, he said to Venezuelans.

Raise your hand if you want Venezuela to become a Yankee colony.

Nobody did.

All right.

And when Trump makes these threats about Venezuela, how are people reacting?

Are people stockpiling food?

Are they preparing in other ways?

Where is Maduro in all of this?

How is he behaving knowing that these threats are coming from the U.S.?

Anna Vanessa Herrero in Caracas.

She reports for The Washington Post.

Coming up, what Maduro wants from a reporter who knows him.

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