Tommy Vitor
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4,356 appearances
16 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 7 Jul
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The only one of those that seems actually doable to me, Ben, is number two, which is kick out the Iranians and kick out the Cubans.
Because if she really goes after the drugs –
The corrupt generals who are part of the drug trade or actually, you know, referred to as Cartel de la Souls could go after her.
And I like I don't.
Do you think they can afford a rupture with the Chinese if suddenly Venezuela cancels all these Chinese oil contracts that they've had for years and years?
So, look, I don't know.
Maybe maybe.
Maybe she will be able to pull off enough of this.
But you could also see like Cabello and Lopez like setting her up to fail by allowing like just enough political instability that it's a headache for Trump or it keeps the oil companies out of Venezuela.
Yeah, they know what our midterms are.
They know that a reinvasion gets harder and harder.
By the way, I drew out a lot of this section from this great reporting in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times.
There's papers by The Crisis Group that were really great.
And then our friend Juan Gonzalez had a great piece in Foreign Affairs magazine that's worth reading.
And Juan also pointed out to me when we were talking that like you have a lot of very experienced fighters hanging out kind of in and around Venezuela, like, you know, the remnants of the FARC.
uh, the group called ELN, they are skilled fighters.
They are skilled in urban combat.
They could stage operations that do just enough to scare away these oil companies.
And there is no surge in energy.
Because I don't think- Politics get worse.
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