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[00:00:00] بين هذا وذاك وحكومه ايران
[00:00:04] تعلن بصوت مرتفع قاطع انها
[00:00:08] تؤمن بنهضه الشعوب لا بالارهاب
[00:00:11] وببحده
[00:00:13] of المسلمين لا بالغلبه والتناحر المذهبي
[00:00:17] وبالاخوه الاسلاميه لا بالتعالي
[00:00:20] القومی والعنصری و بالجهاد
[00:00:23] of الاسلامی لا بالعنف تجاه
[00:00:26] الاخر وهي ملتزمه بذلك انشاء الله
[00:00:31] in
[00:00:32] of
[00:00:38] of
[00:00:48] of
[00:01:18] of
[00:01:30] Is this alleged oil agreement between the United States and
[00:01:34] of Venezuela the culmination of betrayal of Chavismo? So strap
[00:01:38] in as we start today's
[00:01:40] in Gringo. a
[00:01:52] Is he a
[00:01:53] of Mexican-American that is offended
[00:01:55] by?
[00:02:08] of
[00:02:09] of of
[00:02:16] Mr. of President, are you paranoid about the United States and
[00:02:19] Chavez presented the evidence as to why it was not
[00:02:23] of paranoia. He gave series of example, Jacobs
[00:02:27] through Hio, the
[00:02:28] of president of Brazil.
[00:02:37] of
[00:02:47] of
[00:03:00] of of of
[00:03:15] of
[00:03:16] of
[00:03:22] of
[00:03:26] of
[00:03:31] of pero también
[00:03:35] hay otros venezolanos y venezolanas que anhelan
[00:03:38] of tener of su propio hogar, tener su propia vivienda esto que estamos
[00:03:42] haciendo es para el desarrollo del país, pero sobre todo para
[00:03:45] atender al pueblo de Venezuela. The agreement announced by Trump and
[00:03:49] Venezuela's acting president, Delsi Rodriguez, consists
[00:03:53] of the following: The United
[00:03:54] of States will exploit 17 Venezuelan oil
[00:03:57] of fields, 65 billion barrels of oil. nearly 22%
[00:04:01] of the
[00:04:01] of largest of reserves on the planet.
[00:04:03] of Venezuela will reactivate its production and
[00:04:05] of receive technology and investment of 100 billion
[00:04:08] dollars. According to the president, with
[00:04:11] a reference price of $65 per barrel of oil, Venezuela could
[00:04:15] receive $209 billion dollars. Trump says the pact
[00:04:19] will last 100 years. Delsi Rodriguez says it will be 25
[00:04:23] years. Venezuela is signing contracts with oil giants such as
[00:04:26] Cheven and Ennie. We are making history.
[00:04:32] Estamos haciendo historia con la firma de importantes
[00:04:35] acuerdos, todo el sistema de protección
[00:04:38] me social de nuestro pueblo se ha fortalecido a través de los
[00:04:41] beneficios que recibiremos con esta inversión, que yo llamo el
[00:04:45] renacer de Venezuela, reivindico cada día más el
[00:04:49] canal y el diálogo político diplomático con los Estados Unidos de
[00:04:53] Norteamérica y con los países del
[00:04:55] mundo. Estimados
[00:04:59] amigos, para abordar. Dear friends, to address this fascinating and
[00:05:02] controversial subject, I have with me Jose Antonio
[00:05:05] Eguido. I'm joined by Aguido from the other side
[00:05:09] of the Atlantic. I send you a big hug, Jose Antonio.
[00:05:13] and also Hector Bar who was Peru's
[00:05:16] foreign minister as well as a writer, lawyer and
[00:05:19] sociologist. Antonio, I was listening to a program by
[00:05:23] Ariel Impieres in which Antonio Silva, a
[00:05:27] well-known Venezuelan journalist said that in order to
[00:05:30] understand this alleged oil agreement, we have to go back to what
[00:05:34] happened in January, when President Maduro
[00:05:38] was kidnapped, he presents a scenario
[00:05:40] in which he practically in. is an alleged betrayal by
[00:05:44] Delhi Rodriguez, the Rodriguez brother and others,
[00:05:48] whom he does not name, but who are part the system a
[00:05:51] betray against Venezuela, what do you
[00:06:34] general, well there is really one question that Mario Silva
[00:06:38] cannot answer because nobody can answer it in the meeting held in
[00:06:41] Qatar in. 2025 which were supposedly
[00:06:45] authorized by President Maduro and in which Mrs. Dalcy
[00:06:49] Rodriguez took part what exactly was being cooked up there,
[00:06:53] nobody knows, but what has happened, what we can see
[00:06:56] objectively is that after January 3rd on the fourth, the
[00:07:00] fifth, and up to today, now that we are already in the month of
[00:07:04] September, Trump has destroyed the Bolivarian Republic of
[00:07:08] Venezuela, there is no longer an independent Republic of Venezuela,
[00:07:11] there is no longer a constitution, there is
[00:07:14] no longer national assembly, trump does whatever he wants,
[00:07:18] so much so that look, this oil agreement, Mrs. Delsey
[00:07:22] and Mr. Trump have said they did not negotiated with the secretary of
[00:07:26] petroleum and energy, whose name is right, but with the secretary of
[00:07:30] war, whom I think is called etret or some
[00:07:34] barbaric scandinavian name that they cannot repeat and do not want to
[00:07:38] repeat, they negotiated it with the secretary of war and also with the
[00:07:41] far right.
[00:07:43] in principle has nothing to do with energy business named
[00:07:46] Marco Rubio, so what is being proposed in Venezuela today is an
[00:07:50] agreement not only to seize the oil reserves,
[00:07:54] but to militarily occupy through the south command, the oil
[00:07:58] producing region, the fields, the immense oil fields of Venezuela,
[00:08:02] after they signed with the head of war, they sent Mr.
[00:08:06] Wright who resembles a great American Marxist
[00:08:09] sociologist Sea Wright Mills, but this one is simply. agent
[00:08:13] the multinationals, but he comes afterward, that is to say, it
[00:08:17] is highly suspicious when he say that there is no republic. i have
[00:08:20] just listened to Venezuela's leading oil expert whose name is
[00:08:24] Mendoza Potella. Mendoza Potella is the student the
[00:08:28] founder of OPEC, the organization of petroleum exporting
[00:08:31] countries. He was an adico named Perez
[00:08:35] Alfonso, I mean action democratica, major Venezuelan
[00:08:38] political party. The thing is that now under pressure from. Marco
[00:08:42] Rubio and Trump, Venezuela is considering leaving OPEC, an
[00:08:46] organization created by Venezuela. Last week I published
[00:08:50] an article about all the structures of Chavez's Bolivarian
[00:08:53] Revolution, that this puppet government was a prominent French
[00:08:57] trade unionist is now calling a popupit government, has set out to
[00:09:01] destroy the bolivarian revolution. To destroy the central
[00:09:05] bank of Venezuela, which no longer receives the oil money to destroy the
[00:09:09] Supreme Court of Justice, and I know this perfectly well. because my
[00:09:13] former partner, who was a trusted employee the
[00:09:16] constitutional chamber the Supreme Court, has been
[00:09:20] practically forced into exile in Brazil, and her
[00:09:24] boss, the left-wing justice Luis Damiani, has been
[00:09:27] expelled, because it seems Rubio gave these people a list of
[00:09:31] loyal and democratic justices who had to be removed from the Supreme
[00:09:35] Court of Justice, which is where laws, president, elections
[00:09:38] and other structures are ratified, the bulvarian militias.
[00:09:50] I'm going to interrupt you to turn to Hector, but before that, there
[00:09:54] is suggestion of some kind, because some people say no, they put a
[00:09:58] gun to Delhi Rodriguez's head, and then they said, well,
[00:10:02] there's other choice, we have to do this, there is another version
[00:10:06] that time she had been working for the
[00:10:14] I would say that version about the gun to the hand, I believe it's until around March
[00:10:18] or April when they handed over Maduro's main economic
[00:10:22] associate to the FBI and the CIA and and probably
[00:10:25] shady individual named, and from that point
[00:10:30] i understood that this business about a gun to the head was a trick, i
[00:10:33] don't believe it, and the question is from what moment did the national
[00:10:37] betrayal begin, from what moment was it done before or
[00:10:41] did it happen afterward, because all the information i have is that the
[00:10:45] orders received by the grassroots members the
[00:10:49] PSUV, the patriots who had committed themselves
[00:10:52] militarily and the foreign ministery official.
[00:10:55] and I myself was twice an official the Venezuelan foreign ministry and
[00:10:59] I trained Venezuelan diplomats at the diplomatic Academy
[00:11:03] called the pad institute of advanced diplomatic
[00:11:06] studies, I have my sources, the orders given to the militia and
[00:11:10] including my former partner who is in exile in Brazil and to my
[00:11:14] comrads at the foreign ministry where do not lift finger, do not
[00:11:18] respond, do not use your weapons, that very same day, the
[00:11:21] third, and that is what comrad Mario Silva said, they gave
[00:11:25] us the order not to fire on the criminals who invaded my
[00:11:29] Venezuelan homeland, not to fire, but to cooperate with the
[00:11:32] enemies,
[00:11:37] and indeed suspended they his
[00:11:40] have program already and he literally said, we cannot afford to make Mr. Donald
[00:11:44] Trump angry at this moment, that is what Mario
[00:11:47] Silva said, actor, in your opinion, what are we
[00:11:51] dealing with in this alleged oil agreement which is practical?
[00:12:25] absolute solidarity with the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,
[00:12:29] which has been kidnapped by the United States, my protest
[00:12:32] against the kidnapping of a president the Republic, Nicholas
[00:12:36] Maduro, and my condemnation the threats against
[00:12:39] Latin America, my country, Peru is also threatened
[00:12:43] by the same thing, and I believe we have to be careful when analyzing
[00:12:47] Venezuela's current and complex situation. What I have been
[00:12:50] following through the unfortunately limited information provided by the
[00:12:54] press, is that Mr. Trump, who operates directly with the
[00:12:57] consortium, monopoly or apparatus, whatever one wishes to
[00:13:01] call it, the United States Military Complex has the
[00:13:05] desperate mission of seasing Venezuela's oil. Trump
[00:13:09] is not interested in the Chavisters, the Rodriguez family or
[00:13:13] anyone else. What he wants is to have Venezuela's oil in
[00:13:17] his hands, and now he has it, but of course, since
[00:13:21] Trump is psychopath and also a man who is absolutely...
[00:13:25] efficient and igness Trump administration have meant that Venezuela's oil
[00:13:28] industry is now practically destroyed. To begin with,
[00:13:32] Venezuela's oil, as it is called, is heavy
[00:13:35] crude. It is difficult to refine and requires special
[00:13:39] technologies and refineries. Those refineries have been shut
[00:13:43] down for many months and are not operational. And when
[00:13:46] Trump, for the first and second time, called on American companies to
[00:13:50] take charge the robbery he wants to hand over to them, the spoils he has
[00:13:54] stolen. that is, Venezuela's oil reserves, he
[00:13:58] encountered an extremely cautious attitude from the companies,
[00:14:01] why? because getting Venezuela's oil industry back its feet
[00:14:05] and operational at this point requires a massive investment that
[00:14:09] nobody is willing to make. So Trump has had to
[00:14:13] create, illegally, as with everything he does, a
[00:14:16] special productive apparatus independent the American
[00:14:20] private productive apparatus the oil companies and
[00:14:24] dependent. on the Pentagon. At this moment, the Pentagon
[00:14:28] has oil companies in the process of being created, but that is
[00:14:32] unconstitutional in the United States.
[00:14:34] It is illegal, therefore, that will also require a
[00:14:38] series of bureaucratic procedures and will create
[00:14:41] problems that Trump has now also brought upon himself within
[00:14:45] the United States. In other words, Trump's entire
[00:14:49] supposed triumph in stealing Venezuela's oil has
[00:14:52] practically become a question mark now. that it has had to be put into
[00:14:56] practice, and we still have to see how far it
[00:14:59] will go, and
[00:15:14] What I am seeing from my country are the problems this is
[00:15:18] and that is the situation Venezuela finds itself in
[00:15:41] as in Peru,
[00:15:49] so and we now must just also be aware the political weakness of our region, the
[00:15:53] weakness of our political choices and the inability,
[00:15:57] which, as we know, is also historically rooted in Latin
[00:16:01] America, datting back to its very origins to confront
[00:16:05] the United States militarily. 'I'm not advocating a
[00:16:09] war any way, but I say this: if they kidnap your president,
[00:16:12] well, I suppose some president in Latin America should kidnap
[00:16:16] Trump and exchange him for Maduro, that is the only
[00:16:20] solution, isn't
[00:16:21] it?
[00:16:48] and it is a country that at this moment has to choose either to put up a
[00:16:52] Vietnam style resistance with Latin America at the
[00:16:55] hands the United States, which is what we
[00:16:58] expected.
[00:17:07] was serving his first term in 2019, he publicly
[00:17:11] said, "please, we should have taken Venezuela, and now
[00:17:15] we're buying oil from dictator, a clear reference to
[00:17:19] Nicholas Maduro. In other words, it is the chronicle of a
[00:17:22] disposession foretold. He said it himself, and now in the
[00:17:26] following term, well, we are seeing it, but in this context we see the
[00:17:30] role the Pentagon, which at this moment has taken control of
[00:17:34] Venezuelan oil, but the Pentagon and the United States..." military
[00:17:38] are carrying out an Israel military integration that
[00:17:42] according to Israel is meant to be irreversible. What would be the
[00:17:46] role of zionism or Israel in this entire scenario,
[00:17:50] which Hector has already described? Colombia, where at
[00:17:54] the inauguration of this new president, rabbi goes
[00:17:57] and shouts, long live Colombia and long live
[00:18:01] Israel, Miley and Argentina. Here in Mexico,
[00:18:05] they have just authorized a new political. party called Paz,
[00:18:08] led by a man who is in Morana, the left-wing
[00:18:12] morana party, and they have granted him this new party, he has
[00:18:16] openly traveled to Israel and returned to say, our objective
[00:18:20] is to promote international policies to support
[00:18:23] Israel, this man is named Hugo Flores
[00:18:37] ves?
[00:18:37] expulsion
[00:18:53] the Israeli embassy
[00:18:54] in retaliation
[00:18:59] for one the many criminal operations organized by the zionist
[00:19:03] regime against the palestinian population which at the time was
[00:19:06] called. lead, i myself took part in demonstration with
[00:19:10] thousands of people to close the embassy the zionist regime, which was
[00:19:14] located in the east the city. it was in 2008 or
[00:19:18] 2009, something like that, i don't remember. now after
[00:19:22] trump, after the invasion, not only by the pentagon but
[00:19:26] by the CIA, the FBI southern command, which is the
[00:19:29] pentagon, the American companies, marco, rubio and so
[00:19:33] on and so forth, a group of military personnel has come taken
[00:19:37] advantage the tragedy the earthquake, especially
[00:19:41] in laguera, and look at how cynical these zits are, because
[00:19:44] president called them genocidal, they sent as
[00:19:48] the military chief of that delegation of supposed rescuers, the military
[00:19:52] officer who had led operation cast lead, the one whom
[00:19:56] president chavas accused of being genocidal in
[00:19:59] 2007, no perhaps 2008, i don't remember
[00:20:02] exactly, in my spanish that is called untragala forcing the
[00:20:06] venezuela. people to swallow the audacity they had in
[00:20:10] calling them genocidal, which is what they are, and in closing their
[00:20:14] embassy. what let tell you one thing and to some up regarding
[00:20:17] Venezuela, designs came hand in hand with trump, when the
[00:20:21] Venezuelan people, let me say we, because I am Venezuelan, this is
[00:20:25] my Venezuelan ID card, my id, and when we
[00:20:29] throw Trump out, designs will go with him, designs came
[00:20:33] with Trump, they will leave when we throw out Trump and what Trump represents.
[00:20:50] Israel is a tremendously active country, not just now. in Peru, for
[00:20:53] example, we have had a president
[00:20:55] who worked with Israel. in the year 2000, Toledo became
[00:20:58] president. when Fujimori fell in Peru,
[00:21:01] he was replaced by Toledo, who is now a former president in prison, had the
[00:21:05] massad in the palace, in the government palace. And in
[00:21:09] Peru, as we all know, we had massacre in which more than
[00:21:13] 60 people died after the removal of President
[00:21:16] Castillo. They killed them for protesting, shooting them in the body.
[00:21:20] and those weapons and those rifles were Israeli, so
[00:21:24] Israel's relationship
[00:21:26] with the United States, as well as Israel's own objectives are
[00:21:29] absolutely clear, and as I repeat, the Washington Tell
[00:21:33] aviv axis in my opinion, is equivalent to the Berlin,
[00:21:37] Tokyo axis the second world war. We are living
[00:21:41] through neonarcism in the 21st century, and I believe that what we
[00:21:45] have to discuss with great concern is how, just as our grandparents or
[00:21:48] our parents had to...
[00:22:21] century, before we used to speak about the socialism the
[00:22:24] 21st century, the contrast struck me as powerful,
[00:22:28] it is basically instrument of big capital for imposing itself on the
[00:22:32] peoples,
[00:22:37] so you have provided some very interesting information, what you told us
[00:22:41] about this kind of revenge for Chavez's
[00:22:44] audacity.
[00:22:57] the great weakness the Latin American people is allowing the
[00:23:01] criminal kidnapping of a president by mafia
[00:23:04] gang on the basis of an unfounded accusation, because
[00:23:08] they have now already said that the accusation against Maduro amounts to
[00:23:12] nothing, the cartal the sons does not exist, it is the weakness of
[00:23:16] all humanity, especially since the fall the Soviet Union. which was the
[00:23:20] only force equipped with nuclear weapons capable of imposing
[00:23:24] respect for international law. look, this Trump who is also a
[00:23:28] little crazy, apart from all the other things and interests that inhabit
[00:23:32] his mind, does not get along very well,
[00:23:34] and yet he speaks in glowing terms about the president the
[00:23:37] democratic people's republic of Korea. on the one hand, Marco Rubius
[00:23:41] spouse everyday an anti-communism more primitive than anything one
[00:23:45] could imagine, but Trump speaks well the president the Korean
[00:23:49] people.
[00:23:58] our guests who have provided truly important information for understanding what
[00:24:02] is happening not only in Venezuela, but I would say across
[00:24:06] the Latin American region. Thank you for
[00:24:23] For a man who built his entire political
[00:24:27] persona on invincibility and dominance, Donald
[00:24:31] Trump's recent behavior tells a very different
[00:24:34] story behind the bravado and the threats of
[00:24:38] decimating an entire nation, he's a president reportedly
[00:24:42] consumed by fear for his own life, and the roots of that
[00:24:45] fear traced directly back to decision he made himself. I'm a
[00:25:06] To understand why Trump is so preoccupied with his own mortality,
[00:25:10] we have to go back to January of 2020 when he personally
[00:25:14] ordered the drone strike that assassinated General Qasim
[00:25:17] Sulaymani in Baghdad. Trump himself has
[00:25:21] acknowledged that he believes he has been on Iran's kill
[00:25:25] list ever since, as he told the New York post in July
[00:25:29] of 2026, I've been number one for a long time, and it's the way life
[00:25:33] is, you know, that admission has not stopped Trump from
[00:25:37] taking extraordinary measures to protect himself. In July
[00:25:40] 2026, at the NATO summit in Ankara Turkia, US officials
[00:25:44] orchestrated an elaborate deception operation, reportedly switching Trump
[00:25:48] off of Air Force 1 and on different aircraft after
[00:25:51] intelligence suggested Iran had identified his hotel, his
[00:25:55] motorcate routes and was considering a shoulder mounted missile
[00:25:59] strike on his plane. Reuters lated reported that US intelligence could
[00:26:03] not independently verify the specific plot, but the secret service
[00:26:07] still moved him out of caution. Trump himself confirmed the switch weeks
[00:26:10] later, claiming he followed instructions due to a possible
[00:26:14] Iranian threat. That episode was far from
[00:26:18] isolated. Just this week on August 25, 2026,
[00:26:21] Iranian television reportedly aired a video linked to the
[00:26:25] revolutionary guards core claiming, this latest incident
[00:26:28] is part of a longer pattern in March 2026, defend. Secretary
[00:26:32] Pete Heksat claimed a U.S. air strike had killed an Iranian operative
[00:26:36] allegedly tied to a plot against Trump, declaring that Iran
[00:26:40] attempted to assassinate President Trump and President Trump has ultimately
[00:26:44] had the last laugh. Around the same time, a New York courtroom heard
[00:26:47] testimony in the trial of Asif Merchant a Pakistani national accused
[00:26:51] of plotting on Iran's behalf to assassinate Trump. A scheme
[00:26:55] prosecutors say was sketched out a napkin a budget
[00:26:58] motel. Faced with what he describes as a
[00:27:02] persistent threats to his life, Trump has responded not
[00:27:06] with quiet security measures alone, but with
[00:27:09] public threats of mass destruction. In July 2026, he
[00:27:13] posted that 100 missiles are locked and loaded and aimed at the
[00:27:17] Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands more to
[00:27:20] immediately follow, should Tehran act on what he called
[00:27:24] its threat to assassinate him. It is worth
[00:27:28] pausing on the sheer imbalance of that statement, a
[00:27:31] president the extrajudicial killing of foreign general
[00:27:35] on foreign soil is now threatening to completely decimate
[00:27:39] and destroy all areas of an entire nation over
[00:27:42] intelligence that his own government admits it is not able to verify.
[00:27:46] whether or not every alleged plot is real? the pattern is
[00:27:50] unmistakable. the man who once boasted of hunting down Iran's
[00:27:54] commanders now lives behind switched planes, secret motor cate routes
[00:27:57] and secret service warnings about videos threatening his own
[00:28:01] children. trump... wanted a war he assumed would be
[00:28:04] fought entirely on someone else's soil with
[00:28:08] someone else absorbing the cost the war. instead,
[00:28:12] five years after ordering general Sulaimani's assassination, he finds
[00:28:15] himself the one glancing over his shoulder. it is fitting
[00:28:19] if uncomfortable lesson for any leader who believes that violence
[00:28:23] abroad carries no consequences at home. the
[00:28:27] machinery of imperial aggression rarely stays contained
[00:29:26] The headlines Iran says a Pentagon reports on the damage
[00:29:30] done to US military assets in region is just the tip the
[00:29:34] iceberg and