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[00:00:05] of
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[00:00:13] of
[00:00:18] a
[00:00:19] of
[00:00:23] in
[00:00:39] of
[00:01:12] Is this alleged oil agreement between the United States and Venezuela, the
[00:01:16] culmination of betrayal of Chavismo? So strap in as we
[00:01:20] start
[00:01:29] this.
[00:01:50] a
[00:01:51] of
[00:01:51] in the
[00:01:55] of
[00:01:55] He journalists told who questioned him, Mr. President, are you
[00:01:59] paranoid about? United States and Chavez presented the
[00:02:02] evidence as to why it
[00:02:04] of was not paranoia. He gave series of example.
[00:02:07] Jacobs through Hio, the president of
[00:02:10] Brazil, countless examples, but he told her,
[00:02:15] of here we have the largest oil reserves in the world. He gave her a whole
[00:02:19] of lesson. What
[00:02:20] of Chavez warned about has come to pass and now practically
[00:02:24] speaking many say that the Bolivarian Republic of
[00:02:27] Venezuela has
[00:02:28] of disappeared. tú no
[00:02:35] pero ves
[00:02:39] of ves, la tú amenaza no que es para nosotros, el
[00:02:40] of imperio of de los Estados Unidos, por qué
[00:02:42] of cree que Estados Unidos quiere atacar Venezuela, bueno ahí está la historia
[00:02:45] reciente, yo te voy a decir la causa más importante
[00:02:48] aquí, aquí mismo está la
[00:02:51] reserva de petróleo más grande de este planeta, está usted paranoico
[00:02:55] con Estados Unidos, no de ninguna
[00:02:57] of manera, yo solo soy realista.
[00:03:16] También hay otros
[00:03:17] of venezolanos y venezolanas que anhelan tener su propio hogar, tener su propia
[00:03:21] vivienda esto que estamos haciendo es para el desarrollo del
[00:03:25] país, pero sobre todo para atender al pueblo de
[00:03:28] Venezuela. by Trump and Venezuela's acting
[00:03:31] president, Delhi
[00:03:33] of Rodriguez, consists
[00:03:34] of the following: The United States will exploit 17 Venezuelan oil
[00:03:38] fields, 65 billion barrels of oil, nearly 22%
[00:03:42] of the largest reserves on the planet. Venezuela will
[00:03:46] of reactivate its production and
[00:03:47] of receive of technology and
[00:03:49] of investment of $100 billion dollars. According to the president, with
[00:03:53] a reference price of $65 per barrel of oil, Venezuela could
[00:03:57] receive $209 billion dollars. Trump says the pact
[00:04:01] will last 100 years.
[00:04:03] of Delcy of Rodriguez says it will be 25 years. Venezuela is signing
[00:04:06] contracts with oil giants such as Cheveren and Ennie. We are making
[00:04:10] history, the president says
[00:04:12] excitedly.
[00:04:18] Todo el sistema de protección social de nuestro pueblo se ha
[00:04:21] fortalecido
[00:04:22] a través de los beneficios que recibiremos con esta inversión que yo
[00:04:26] llamo el Renacer de Venezuela. Reivindico cada día.
[00:04:52] of
[00:05:00] writer, lawyer and sociologist. Antonio, I was listening to a
[00:05:04] program by Ariels in which Antonio
[00:05:08] Silva, a well-known Venezuelan journalist, said that in order
[00:05:12] to... understand this alleged oil agreement, we have to go
[00:05:15] back to what happened in January when President Maduro was
[00:05:19] kidnapped, he presents a scenario in which he practically
[00:05:23] infers an alleged betrayal by Delsi Rodriguez,
[00:05:27] the Rodriguez brother and others whom he does not name, but who
[00:05:31] are part the system, betrayal against
[00:05:34] Venezuela, what do you
[00:05:36] say? well, first of all, a
[00:05:40] big greeting and to the great. I had the good
[00:05:43] fortune to meet in 2018, he's the most
[00:05:47] universal Peruvian of today and all of Peru's history, it is
[00:05:51] an honor for me and for you, there may be no jealousy, but before Hector, I
[00:05:55] stand attention before the former foreign
[00:05:57] minister, no, I stand
[00:06:01] attention before him gorilla
[00:06:02] too, fighter in
[00:06:07] he was a Peru. That's why, that's why, that's why I extend attention before
[00:06:11] him among other. thinks general Velasko a great
[00:06:14] general? well, there is really one question that
[00:06:18] Mario Silva cannot answer, because nobody can answer it in the
[00:06:22] meeting held in Qatar in 2025, which were
[00:06:26] supposedly authorized by President Maduro, and in which
[00:06:29] Mrs. Delsey Rodriguez took part, what exactly was being cooked
[00:06:33] up there? nobody knows, but what has happened, what we can
[00:06:37] see objectively is that after January 3rd on the
[00:06:41] fourth, the fifth... And up to today, now that we are
[00:06:44] already in the month of September, Trump has destroyed the
[00:06:48] Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, there is no longer an independent
[00:06:52] Republic of Venezuela, there is no longer a constitution, there
[00:06:55] is no longer national assembly, Trump does whatever he
[00:06:59] wants, so much so that look, this oil agreement,
[00:07:03] Mrs. Delsi and Mr. Trump have said they did not negotiated with
[00:07:07] the secretary of petroleum and energy, whose name is Right, but with the
[00:07:11] Secretary of War. whom, i think is called etret or
[00:07:15] some barbaric scandinavian name that i cannot repeat and do not
[00:07:19] want to repeat. they negotiated it with the secretary of war and also
[00:07:23] with the far right figure who in principle has nothing to do with
[00:07:26] energy business named Marco Rubio. so what is being
[00:07:30] proposed in Venezuela today is an agreement not only to
[00:07:34] seize the oil reserves but to militarily occupied
[00:07:38] through the south command, the oil producing origin, the fields, the immense
[00:07:42] oil. of Venezuela, after they signed with the head
[00:07:46] of war, they sent Mr. Wright who resembles a great
[00:07:49] American marxist sociologist Sear Mills, but this one is
[00:07:53] simply an agent the multinationals, but he comes
[00:07:57] afterward, that is to say, it is highly suspicious when I say that
[00:08:00] there is no republic. I have just listened to Venezuela's leading oil
[00:08:04] expert whose name is Mendoza, Mendoza
[00:08:08] potella is the student the founder of OPEC the organization of.
[00:08:21] The thing is that now under pressure from Marco Rubio and Trump
[00:08:25] Venezuela is considering leaving OPEC an organization created by
[00:08:29] Venezuela. Last week I published an article about all the
[00:08:32] structures of Chavez's bolivarian revolution that this
[00:08:36] popet government, what a prominent French trade unionist
[00:08:40] is now calling pupet government. set out to destroy the bolivarian
[00:08:44] revolution, to destroy the central bank of Venezuela,
[00:08:48] which no longer receives the oil money to destroy the Supreme Court of
[00:08:51] Justice, and I know this perfectly well, because my former partner, who
[00:08:55] was a trusted employee the constitutional
[00:08:59] chamber the Supreme Court, has been practically forced into
[00:09:03] exile in Brazil, and her boss, the left-wing
[00:09:07] justice Luis Damiani has been expelled because it
[00:09:10] seems Rubio gave these people.
[00:09:12] list of loyal and democratic justices who had to be removed from the supreme
[00:09:16] court of justice, which is where law's president elections
[00:09:20] and other structures are ratified, the bulvarian militias have been
[00:09:24] also etc. etc. it is a truly dramatic
[00:09:26] situation,
[00:09:35] that
[00:09:36] but there is before suggestion of some kind, because some people say no, they put gun to
[00:09:40] Delhi Rodriguez head and... then they said, well, there's
[00:09:44] other choice, we have to do this. there is another version that for a
[00:09:48] long time she had been working for the
[00:09:51] CIA.
[00:09:55] i would say that version about the gun to the hand, i believe it until around march
[00:09:59] or april when they handed over Maduro's main economic
[00:10:03] associate to the FBI and the CIA and probably
[00:10:07] shady individual named, and from that point
[00:10:11] i understood that...
[00:10:12] this business about a gun to the head was a trick, i don't believe it, and the
[00:10:16] question is from what moment did the national betrayal
[00:10:20] begin, from what moment, was it done before or did it happen
[00:10:24] afterward because? all the information I have is that the orders
[00:10:27] received by the grassroots members the PSUV, the
[00:10:31] patriots who had committed themselves militarily and the foreign
[00:10:35] ministry officials, and I myself was twice an official the
[00:10:39] Venezuelan foreign ministery, and I trained Venezuelan diplomats
[00:10:43] at the Diplomatic Academy called the Pedroag Institute
[00:10:47] of Advanced Diplomatic Studies. I have my sources, the orders
[00:10:50] given to the militia and including my former partner who is in exile in...
[00:11:07] already suspended his program
[00:11:08] and
[00:11:21] they have he literally said we cannot afford to make Mr. Donald
[00:11:25] Trump angry at this moment.
[00:11:28] That is what Mario Silva said: "Hector, in your
[00:11:31] opinion, what are we dealing with in this alleged oil agreement,
[00:11:35] which is practically the chronicle of
[00:11:38] a robbery foretold by the pirate Donald Trump, but as
[00:11:42] we are hearing from Jose Antonio Aguido, with internal
[00:11:45] collaboration with the fifth column within Chavismo. Con
[00:11:49] una quinta columna dentro del
[00:11:51] chavismo. Bueno, primero.
[00:12:06] my absolute solidarity with the Bolivarian Republic of
[00:12:09] Venezuela, which has been kidnapped by the United States,
[00:12:13] my protest against the kidnapping of a president the republic,
[00:12:17] Nicolas Maduro, and my condemnation the threats
[00:12:21] against Latin America. My country, Peru is also.
[00:12:25] threatened by the same thing, and I believe we have to be careful when analyzing
[00:12:28] Venezuela's current and complex situation. What I have been
[00:12:32] following, through the unfortunately limited information provided by the
[00:12:36] press, is that Mr. Trump, who operates directly with the
[00:12:39] consortium, monopoly, or apparatus, whatever one wishes
[00:12:43] to call it, the United States Military or Complex, has the
[00:12:47] desperate mission of seasing Venezuela's oil. Trump
[00:12:51] is not interested in the Chavesters, the Rodriguez family.
[00:12:55] or anyone else, what he wants is to have Venezuela's oil
[00:12:59] in his hands and now he has it, but of course, since Trump
[00:13:03] is psychopath and also a man who is absolutely
[00:13:06] inefficient and ignorant, he has chosen the most complicated
[00:13:10] path even within the United States, why? because the
[00:13:14] very sanctions promoted against Venezuela since the first Trump
[00:13:17] administration have meant that Venezuela's oil industry is now
[00:13:21] practically destroyed. To begin with, Venezuela's
[00:13:25] Oil, as it is called, is heavy crude. It is difficult to
[00:13:29] refine and requires special technologies and
[00:13:32] refineries. Those refineries have been shut down for many months
[00:13:35] and are not operational. And when Trump, for the first
[00:13:39] and second time, called on American companies to take charge the robbery he
[00:13:43] wants to hand over to them, the spoils he has stolen, that
[00:13:47] is, Venezuela's oil reserves. He encountered an extremely
[00:13:50] cautious attitude from the companies. Why? Because getting.
[00:13:55] oil industry back its feet and operational at this point
[00:13:59] requires a massive investment that nobody is willing to
[00:14:02] make, so Trump has had to create, illegally, as
[00:14:06] with everything he does, a special productive apparatus
[00:14:10] independent the American private productive apparatus
[00:14:14] the oil companies and dependent on the
[00:14:16] pentagon. At this moment, the Pentagon has oil companies
[00:14:20] in the process of being created, but that is
[00:14:23] unconstitutional.
[00:14:25] United States, it is illegal, therefore, that will also require
[00:14:29] a series of bureaucratic procedures and will create
[00:14:33] problems that Trump has now also brought upon himself within the
[00:14:36] United States. In other words, Trump's entire
[00:14:40] supposed triumph in stealing Venezuela's oil has
[00:14:44] practically become a question mark now that it has had to be put into
[00:14:48] practice, and we still have to see how far it will
[00:14:51] go, and of course I have to say that, like all of you.
[00:14:55] all of us, my information is very limited, and what i am saying is by
[00:14:59] no means conclusive, nor does it have the quality of a
[00:15:02] conclusion, because i am not in a position to draw one. what
[00:15:06] i am seeing from my country are the problems this is
[00:15:08] creating, and that is the situation Venezuela
[00:15:12] finds itself in at this moment. now i condemn even
[00:15:16] more than the attitude the Venezuelans about which i still reserve
[00:15:19] judgment until i have studied it further, the attitude of Latin
[00:15:23] America, because how is... possible that Latin America is capable
[00:15:27] of allowing a president to be kidnapped, a Latin American president
[00:15:31] kidnapped, and how is it possible that Latin America is allowing
[00:15:35] this to happen just as in Argentina? just as in Bolivia
[00:15:39] and now just as in Peru, so we must also be aware
[00:15:42] the political weakness of our region, the weakness of our political
[00:15:46] choices and the inability, which, as we know, is
[00:15:50] also historically rooted in Latin America, datting back to
[00:15:54] its very origins, to confront the United States
[00:15:57] militarily. I'm not advocating a war any way, but I
[00:16:01] say this, if they kidnap your president, well, I suppose
[00:16:05] some president in Latin America...
[00:16:37] from Venezuela, and I do not dare call anyone a
[00:16:40] traitor. I could not call anyone a traiter if I did not have
[00:16:44] a weapon in my hands and we're not defending Venezuela at the
[00:16:48] front, and it is a country that at this moment, has to
[00:16:52] choose either to put up a Vietnam style resistance, which is what we
[00:16:56] all expected, isn't it? Or to prostrate itself before the
[00:16:59] United States and become yet another victim, like the many
[00:17:03] there have been throughout the history of Latin America at the hands of...
[00:17:24] he publicly
[00:17:24] said please, we should have taken Venezuela, and now we're buying oil from
[00:17:28] dictator, a clear reference to Nicholas Maduro. In
[00:17:31] other words, it is the chronicle of a disposession
[00:17:35] foretold, he said it himself and now in the following term,
[00:17:39] well we are seeing it, but in this context we see the role the
[00:17:42] Pentagon, which at this moment has taken control of Venezuelan
[00:17:46] oil, but the Pentagon and the United States military are
[00:17:49] carrying out an Israel military integration that
[00:17:53] according to Israel is meant to be irreversible. what would be
[00:17:57] the role of zionism or Israel in this entire
[00:18:00] scenario, which Hector has already described:
[00:18:04] Colombia, where at the inauguration of this new
[00:18:07] president, the rabbi goes and shouts long live colombia
[00:18:11] and long live Israel, melee and Argentina, here in
[00:18:15] Mexico, they have just authorized a new political party called
[00:18:19] Paz, led by a man who is in Morana, the
[00:18:23] left-wing Morena party, and they have granted him this new
[00:18:26] party. He has openly traveled to Israel and returned to say,
[00:18:30] our objective is to promote international policies to
[00:18:34] support Israel, this man is named Hugo.
[00:18:41] all of this
[00:18:45] what do you
[00:19:02] going to focus on Venezuela, in Venezuela president chavez
[00:19:06] ordered the expulsion. the Israeli embassy in
[00:19:09] retaliation for one the many criminal operations
[00:19:12] organized
[00:19:13] by the zionist regime against the palestinian population which at
[00:19:17] the time was called cast lead. i myself
[00:19:21] something like that, i don't remember. now after trump, after the
[00:19:24] invasion, not only by the pentagon but by the CIA,
[00:19:28] the FBI southern command, which is the pentagon, the
[00:19:32] American companies, Marco Rubio, and so on and so
[00:19:36] forth, a group of military. personnel has come, taken advantage the
[00:19:39] tragedy the earthquake, especially in laguera, and look
[00:19:43] at how cynical these zits are, because President Chavez called
[00:19:47] them genocidal, they sent as the military chief of that
[00:19:51] delegation of supposed rescuers, the military officer who had
[00:19:55] led operation cast lead, the one whom president Chavez
[00:19:58] accused of being genocidal in 2007, no,
[00:20:02] perhaps 2008, I don't remember exactly, in my Spanish that is
[00:20:06] called. forcing the Venezuelan people to
[00:20:09] swallow the same hand in hand with Trump, when the Venezuelan
[00:20:13] people, let me say we, because I am Venezuelan, this is my
[00:20:17] Venezuelan id card, my id, and it says Venezuelan here,
[00:20:21] I do not speak from abroad, yes, I am abroad, but my heart
[00:20:25] and my political activism throughout my adult life have been in
[00:20:29] Venezuela, when we throw Trump out, designers will go with
[00:20:33] them, designers came with Trump, they will leave when we throw out
[00:20:37] Trump.
[00:20:50] is President when Fujimori fell in Peru, he was replaced by
[00:20:53] Toledo, now
[00:20:54] who a former president in prison, had the Massad in the palace
[00:20:58] in the government palace, and in Peru, as we all
[00:21:01] know, we had massacre in which more than 60 people died
[00:21:05] after the removal of President Castillo, they killed them for
[00:21:09] protesting, shooting them in the body, and those weapons and those
[00:21:13] rifles were Israeli, so Israel's relationship with the
[00:21:17] United States as well as Israel's own. are
[00:21:21] absolutely clear, and as I repeat, the Washington tell
[00:21:24] aviv access in my opinion, is equivalent to the Berlin,
[00:21:28] Tokyo, axis the second world war. We are living through
[00:21:32] neonarcism in the 21st century, and I believe that what we have
[00:21:36] to discuss with great concern is how, just as our grandparents or our
[00:21:40] parents had to confront that kind of political, repressive and
[00:21:44] criminal phenomenon, we and our children will have to confront a
[00:21:47] new phenomenon of that kind with.
[00:22:50] the Latin American people is allowing the criminal kidnapping of a
[00:22:54] president by mafia gang on the basis of an unfounded
[00:22:58] accusation, because they have now already said that the
[00:23:01] accusation against Maduro amounts to nothing, the cartal the sons
[00:23:05] does not exist, it is the weakness of all humanity, especially
[00:23:09] since the fall the Soviet Union, which was the only force equipped with
[00:23:13] nuclear weapons capable of imposing respect for international
[00:23:16] law. Look, this Trump the Democratic. Republic
[00:23:20] of Korea, on the one hand, Marco Rubio
[00:23:23] sps everyday an anti-communism more primitive than anything one could
[00:23:27] imagine, but Trump speaks well the president the Korean people,
[00:23:31] why? because Korea has nuclear
[00:23:33] weapons.
[00:23:37] Well, once again, many thanks to our guests who have provided
[00:23:41] truly important information for understanding what is happening not
[00:23:45] only in Venezuela, but I would say across the Latin American
[00:23:49] region. Thank you for being with us on Grengo and I
[00:24:06] Saudi Arabia thought it could bypass hormos. It thought its
[00:24:10] pipelines, its American weapons and its strategic partnerships could keep
[00:24:14] the oil flowing and the kingdom insulated from the consequences of
[00:24:17] regional war, but that careful. constructed illusion is now
[00:24:21] cracking. this week we examine how strikes have forced the shutdown
[00:24:25] of riyadh's crucial east-west bipeline while Yemen's armed
[00:24:29] forces and ansarulah are rapidly reshaping the strategic
[00:24:33] equation around Babel Mandib. KSA's oil
[00:24:37] bypass backfires this week on the mide
[00:24:40] estream.
[00:24:55] For a man who built his entire political persona
[00:24:58] on invincibility and dominance, Donald
[00:25:02] Trump's recent behavior tells a very different
[00:25:06] story behind the bravado and the threats of
[00:25:09] decimating an entire nation, he's a president reportedly
[00:25:13] consumed by fear for his own life, and the roots of that
[00:25:17] fear trace directly back to decision he made, himself, I'm
[00:25:21] Alira. and this is
[00:25:23] inachel.
[00:25:37] To understand why Trump is so preoccupied with his own
[00:25:40] mortality, we have to go back to January of 2020, when
[00:25:44] he personally ordered the drone strike that assassinated
[00:25:48] General Qasim Sulaymani. in Baghdad, Trump
[00:25:52] himself has acknowledged that he believes he has been on
[00:25:55] Iran's kill list ever since, as he told the New York
[00:25:59] post in July of 2026, "I've been number one for..." a long time and
[00:26:03] it's the way life is, you know, that admission has not
[00:26:07] stopped Trump from taking extraordinary measures to protect himself. In
[00:26:11] July 2026, at the NATO summit in Ankara Turkia, US
[00:26:15] officials orchestrated an elaborate deception operation, reportedly switching
[00:26:19] Trump off of Air Force One and onto different aircraft after
[00:26:23] intelligence suggested Iran had identified his hotel, his
[00:26:27] motorcate routes and was considering a shoulder mounted missile
[00:26:30] strike on his plane. Reuters. lated reported that US intelligence could
[00:26:34] not independently verify the specific plot, but the secret service
[00:26:38] still moved him out of caution, just this week on August 25,
[00:26:42] 2026, Iranian television reportedly aired a video
[00:26:45] linked to the revolutionary guards core claiming a $10
[00:26:49] million dollar bounty and appearing to threaten the life of
[00:26:53] Trump's own son, baron, the secret service confirmed, it is
[00:26:57] investigating. this latest incident is part of a
[00:27:01] longer pattern in March 2026, defense secretary Pete Hexath
[00:27:05] claimed a US air strike had killed an Iranian operative allegedly
[00:27:08] tied to a plot against Trump, declaring that Iran attempted to
[00:27:12] assassinate President Trump and President Trump has ultimately had the last
[00:27:16] laugh. Around the same time, a New York courtroom heard testimony in the
[00:27:20] trial of Assif Merchant, a Pakistani national accused of plotting on
[00:27:23] Iran's behalf to assassinate Trump. A scheme prosecutors say was
[00:27:27] sketched out a napkin a budget
[00:27:29] motel. Faced with he describes as a
[00:27:33] persistent threat to his life, Trump has responded not
[00:27:37] with quiet security measures alone, but with
[00:27:41] public threats of mass destruction. In July 2026, he
[00:27:45] posted that 1,0 missiles are locked and loaded and aimed at the
[00:27:48] Islamic Republic of Iran with thousands more to
[00:27:51] immediately follow, should Tehran act on what he called
[00:27:55] its threat to assassinate him. It is worth
[00:27:59] pausing on the sheer imbalance of that state. a president
[00:28:03] who ordered the extrajudicial killing of foreign general on
[00:28:07] foreign soil is now threatening to completely decimate and
[00:28:11] destroy all areas of an entire nation, over intelligence that
[00:28:14] his own government admits it is not able to verify, whether or not
[00:28:18] every alleged plot is real, the pattern is unmistakable. the
[00:28:22] man who once boasted of hunting down Iran's commanders now
[00:28:26] lives behind switched planes, secret motor cade routes and secret service
[00:28:30] warnings about videos threatening his own. Trump wanted
[00:28:34] a war he assumed would be fought entirely on
[00:28:37] someone else's soil with someone else
[00:28:41] absorbing the cost the war. Instead, five years after ordering
[00:28:44] general Sulaimani's assassination, he finds himself the one
[00:28:48] glancing over his shoulder.
[00:28:50] It is fitting if uncomfortable lesson for any leader who believes that
[00:28:54] violence abroad carries no consequences at
[00:28:57] home. The machinery of imperial aggression rarely
[00:29:01] stays contained to The battlefield it was built
[00:29:04] for.