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00:00:00بين هذا وذاك وحكومه ايران
00:00:04تعلن بصوت مرتفع قاطع انها
00:00:08تؤمن بنهضه الشعوب لا بالارهاب
00:00:11وببحده
00:00:13of المسلمين لا بالغلبه والتناحر المذهبي
00:00:17وبالاخوه الاسلاميه لا بالتعالي
00:00:20القومی والعنصری و بالجهاد
00:00:23of الاسلامی لا بالعنف تجاه
00:00:26الاخر وهي ملتزمه بذلك انشاء الله
00:00:31in
00:00:32of
00:00:38of
00:00:48of
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00:01:30Is this alleged oil agreement between the United States and
00:01:34of Venezuela the culmination of betrayal of Chavismo? So strap
00:01:38in as we start today's
00:01:40in Gringo. a
00:01:52Is he a
00:01:53of Mexican-American that is offended
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00:02:09of of
00:02:16Mr. of President, are you paranoid about the United States and
00:02:19Chavez presented the evidence as to why it was not
00:02:23of paranoia. He gave series of example, Jacobs
00:02:27through Hio, the
00:02:28of president of Brazil.
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00:03:00of of of
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00:03:26of
00:03:31of pero también
00:03:35hay otros venezolanos y venezolanas que anhelan
00:03:38of tener of su propio hogar, tener su propia vivienda esto que estamos
00:03:42haciendo es para el desarrollo del país, pero sobre todo para
00:03:45atender al pueblo de Venezuela. The agreement announced by Trump and
00:03:49Venezuela's acting president, Delsi Rodriguez, consists
00:03:53of the following: The United
00:03:54of States will exploit 17 Venezuelan oil
00:03:57of fields, 65 billion barrels of oil. nearly 22%
00:04:01of the
00:04:01of largest of reserves on the planet.
00:04:03of Venezuela will reactivate its production and
00:04:05of receive technology and investment of 100 billion
00:04:08dollars. According to the president, with
00:04:11a reference price of $65 per barrel of oil, Venezuela could
00:04:15receive $209 billion dollars. Trump says the pact
00:04:19will last 100 years. Delsi Rodriguez says it will be 25
00:04:23years. Venezuela is signing contracts with oil giants such as
00:04:26Cheven and Ennie. We are making history.
00:04:32Estamos haciendo historia con la firma de importantes
00:04:35acuerdos, todo el sistema de protección
00:04:38me social de nuestro pueblo se ha fortalecido a través de los
00:04:41beneficios que recibiremos con esta inversión, que yo llamo el
00:04:45renacer de Venezuela, reivindico cada día más el
00:04:49canal y el diálogo político diplomático con los Estados Unidos de
00:04:53Norteamérica y con los países del
00:04:55mundo. Estimados
00:04:59amigos, para abordar. Dear friends, to address this fascinating and
00:05:02controversial subject, I have with me Jose Antonio
00:05:05Eguido. I'm joined by Aguido from the other side
00:05:09of the Atlantic. I send you a big hug, Jose Antonio.
00:05:13and also Hector Bar who was Peru's
00:05:16foreign minister as well as a writer, lawyer and
00:05:19sociologist. Antonio, I was listening to a program by
00:05:23Ariel Impieres in which Antonio Silva, a
00:05:27well-known Venezuelan journalist said that in order to
00:05:30understand this alleged oil agreement, we have to go back to what
00:05:34happened in January, when President Maduro
00:05:38was kidnapped, he presents a scenario
00:05:40in which he practically in. is an alleged betrayal by
00:05:44Delhi Rodriguez, the Rodriguez brother and others,
00:05:48whom he does not name, but who are part the system a
00:05:51betray against Venezuela, what do you
00:06:34general, well there is really one question that Mario Silva
00:06:38cannot answer because nobody can answer it in the meeting held in
00:06:41Qatar in. 2025 which were supposedly
00:06:45authorized by President Maduro and in which Mrs. Dalcy
00:06:49Rodriguez took part what exactly was being cooked up there,
00:06:53nobody knows, but what has happened, what we can see
00:06:56objectively is that after January 3rd on the fourth, the
00:07:00fifth, and up to today, now that we are already in the month of
00:07:04September, Trump has destroyed the Bolivarian Republic of
00:07:08Venezuela, there is no longer an independent Republic of Venezuela,
00:07:11there is no longer a constitution, there is
00:07:14no longer national assembly, trump does whatever he wants,
00:07:18so much so that look, this oil agreement, Mrs. Delsey
00:07:22and Mr. Trump have said they did not negotiated with the secretary of
00:07:26petroleum and energy, whose name is right, but with the secretary of
00:07:30war, whom I think is called etret or some
00:07:34barbaric scandinavian name that they cannot repeat and do not want to
00:07:38repeat, they negotiated it with the secretary of war and also with the
00:07:41far right.
00:07:43in principle has nothing to do with energy business named
00:07:46Marco Rubio, so what is being proposed in Venezuela today is an
00:07:50agreement not only to seize the oil reserves,
00:07:54but to militarily occupy through the south command, the oil
00:07:58producing region, the fields, the immense oil fields of Venezuela,
00:08:02after they signed with the head of war, they sent Mr.
00:08:06Wright who resembles a great American Marxist
00:08:09sociologist Sea Wright Mills, but this one is simply. agent
00:08:13the multinationals, but he comes afterward, that is to say, it
00:08:17is highly suspicious when he say that there is no republic. i have
00:08:20just listened to Venezuela's leading oil expert whose name is
00:08:24Mendoza Potella. Mendoza Potella is the student the
00:08:28founder of OPEC, the organization of petroleum exporting
00:08:31countries. He was an adico named Perez
00:08:35Alfonso, I mean action democratica, major Venezuelan
00:08:38political party. The thing is that now under pressure from. Marco
00:08:42Rubio and Trump, Venezuela is considering leaving OPEC, an
00:08:46organization created by Venezuela. Last week I published
00:08:50an article about all the structures of Chavez's Bolivarian
00:08:53Revolution, that this puppet government was a prominent French
00:08:57trade unionist is now calling a popupit government, has set out to
00:09:01destroy the bolivarian revolution. To destroy the central
00:09:05bank of Venezuela, which no longer receives the oil money to destroy the
00:09:09Supreme Court of Justice, and I know this perfectly well. because my
00:09:13former partner, who was a trusted employee the
00:09:16constitutional chamber the Supreme Court, has been
00:09:20practically forced into exile in Brazil, and her
00:09:24boss, the left-wing justice Luis Damiani, has been
00:09:27expelled, because it seems Rubio gave these people a list of
00:09:31loyal and democratic justices who had to be removed from the Supreme
00:09:35Court of Justice, which is where laws, president, elections
00:09:38and other structures are ratified, the bulvarian militias.
00:09:50I'm going to interrupt you to turn to Hector, but before that, there
00:09:54is suggestion of some kind, because some people say no, they put a
00:09:58gun to Delhi Rodriguez's head, and then they said, well,
00:10:02there's other choice, we have to do this, there is another version
00:10:06that time she had been working for the
00:10:14I would say that version about the gun to the hand, I believe it's until around March
00:10:18or April when they handed over Maduro's main economic
00:10:22associate to the FBI and the CIA and and probably
00:10:25shady individual named, and from that point
00:10:30i understood that this business about a gun to the head was a trick, i
00:10:33don't believe it, and the question is from what moment did the national
00:10:37betrayal begin, from what moment was it done before or
00:10:41did it happen afterward, because all the information i have is that the
00:10:45orders received by the grassroots members the
00:10:49PSUV, the patriots who had committed themselves
00:10:52militarily and the foreign ministery official.
00:10:55and I myself was twice an official the Venezuelan foreign ministry and
00:10:59I trained Venezuelan diplomats at the diplomatic Academy
00:11:03called the pad institute of advanced diplomatic
00:11:06studies, I have my sources, the orders given to the militia and
00:11:10including my former partner who is in exile in Brazil and to my
00:11:14comrads at the foreign ministry where do not lift finger, do not
00:11:18respond, do not use your weapons, that very same day, the
00:11:21third, and that is what comrad Mario Silva said, they gave
00:11:25us the order not to fire on the criminals who invaded my
00:11:29Venezuelan homeland, not to fire, but to cooperate with the
00:11:32enemies,
00:11:37and indeed suspended they his
00:11:40have program already and he literally said, we cannot afford to make Mr. Donald
00:11:44Trump angry at this moment, that is what Mario
00:11:47Silva said, actor, in your opinion, what are we
00:11:51dealing with in this alleged oil agreement which is practical?
00:12:25absolute solidarity with the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,
00:12:29which has been kidnapped by the United States, my protest
00:12:32against the kidnapping of a president the Republic, Nicholas
00:12:36Maduro, and my condemnation the threats against
00:12:39Latin America, my country, Peru is also threatened
00:12:43by the same thing, and I believe we have to be careful when analyzing
00:12:47Venezuela's current and complex situation. What I have been
00:12:50following through the unfortunately limited information provided by the
00:12:54press, is that Mr. Trump, who operates directly with the
00:12:57consortium, monopoly or apparatus, whatever one wishes to
00:13:01call it, the United States Military Complex has the
00:13:05desperate mission of seasing Venezuela's oil. Trump
00:13:09is not interested in the Chavisters, the Rodriguez family or
00:13:13anyone else. What he wants is to have Venezuela's oil in
00:13:17his hands, and now he has it, but of course, since
00:13:21Trump is psychopath and also a man who is absolutely...
00:13:25efficient and igness Trump administration have meant that Venezuela's oil
00:13:28industry is now practically destroyed. To begin with,
00:13:32Venezuela's oil, as it is called, is heavy
00:13:35crude. It is difficult to refine and requires special
00:13:39technologies and refineries. Those refineries have been shut
00:13:43down for many months and are not operational. And when
00:13:46Trump, for the first and second time, called on American companies to
00:13:50take charge the robbery he wants to hand over to them, the spoils he has
00:13:54stolen. that is, Venezuela's oil reserves, he
00:13:58encountered an extremely cautious attitude from the companies,
00:14:01why? because getting Venezuela's oil industry back its feet
00:14:05and operational at this point requires a massive investment that
00:14:09nobody is willing to make. So Trump has had to
00:14:13create, illegally, as with everything he does, a
00:14:16special productive apparatus independent the American
00:14:20private productive apparatus the oil companies and
00:14:24dependent. on the Pentagon. At this moment, the Pentagon
00:14:28has oil companies in the process of being created, but that is
00:14:32unconstitutional in the United States.
00:14:34It is illegal, therefore, that will also require a
00:14:38series of bureaucratic procedures and will create
00:14:41problems that Trump has now also brought upon himself within
00:14:45the United States. In other words, Trump's entire
00:14:49supposed triumph in stealing Venezuela's oil has
00:14:52practically become a question mark now. that it has had to be put into
00:14:56practice, and we still have to see how far it
00:14:59will go, and
00:15:14What I am seeing from my country are the problems this is
00:15:18and that is the situation Venezuela finds itself in
00:15:41as in Peru,
00:15:49so and we now must just also be aware the political weakness of our region, the
00:15:53weakness of our political choices and the inability,
00:15:57which, as we know, is also historically rooted in Latin
00:16:01America, datting back to its very origins to confront
00:16:05the United States militarily. 'I'm not advocating a
00:16:09war any way, but I say this: if they kidnap your president,
00:16:12well, I suppose some president in Latin America should kidnap
00:16:16Trump and exchange him for Maduro, that is the only
00:16:20solution, isn't
00:16:21it?
00:16:48and it is a country that at this moment has to choose either to put up a
00:16:52Vietnam style resistance with Latin America at the
00:16:55hands the United States, which is what we
00:16:58expected.
00:17:07was serving his first term in 2019, he publicly
00:17:11said, "please, we should have taken Venezuela, and now
00:17:15we're buying oil from dictator, a clear reference to
00:17:19Nicholas Maduro. In other words, it is the chronicle of a
00:17:22disposession foretold. He said it himself, and now in the
00:17:26following term, well, we are seeing it, but in this context we see the
00:17:30role the Pentagon, which at this moment has taken control of
00:17:34Venezuelan oil, but the Pentagon and the United States..." military
00:17:38are carrying out an Israel military integration that
00:17:42according to Israel is meant to be irreversible. What would be the
00:17:46role of zionism or Israel in this entire scenario,
00:17:50which Hector has already described? Colombia, where at
00:17:54the inauguration of this new president, rabbi goes
00:17:57and shouts, long live Colombia and long live
00:18:01Israel, Miley and Argentina. Here in Mexico,
00:18:05they have just authorized a new political. party called Paz,
00:18:08led by a man who is in Morana, the left-wing
00:18:12morana party, and they have granted him this new party, he has
00:18:16openly traveled to Israel and returned to say, our objective
00:18:20is to promote international policies to support
00:18:23Israel, this man is named Hugo Flores
00:18:37ves?
00:18:37expulsion
00:18:53the Israeli embassy
00:18:54in retaliation
00:18:59for one the many criminal operations organized by the zionist
00:19:03regime against the palestinian population which at the time was
00:19:06called. lead, i myself took part in demonstration with
00:19:10thousands of people to close the embassy the zionist regime, which was
00:19:14located in the east the city. it was in 2008 or
00:19:182009, something like that, i don't remember. now after
00:19:22trump, after the invasion, not only by the pentagon but
00:19:26by the CIA, the FBI southern command, which is the
00:19:29pentagon, the American companies, marco, rubio and so
00:19:33on and so forth, a group of military personnel has come taken
00:19:37advantage the tragedy the earthquake, especially
00:19:41in laguera, and look at how cynical these zits are, because
00:19:44president called them genocidal, they sent as
00:19:48the military chief of that delegation of supposed rescuers, the military
00:19:52officer who had led operation cast lead, the one whom
00:19:56president chavas accused of being genocidal in
00:19:592007, no perhaps 2008, i don't remember
00:20:02exactly, in my spanish that is called untragala forcing the
00:20:06venezuela. people to swallow the audacity they had in
00:20:10calling them genocidal, which is what they are, and in closing their
00:20:14embassy. what let tell you one thing and to some up regarding
00:20:17Venezuela, designs came hand in hand with trump, when the
00:20:21Venezuelan people, let me say we, because I am Venezuelan, this is
00:20:25my Venezuelan ID card, my id, and when we
00:20:29throw Trump out, designs will go with him, designs came
00:20:33with Trump, they will leave when we throw out Trump and what Trump represents.
00:20:50Israel is a tremendously active country, not just now. in Peru, for
00:20:53example, we have had a president
00:20:55who worked with Israel. in the year 2000, Toledo became
00:20:58president. when Fujimori fell in Peru,
00:21:01he was replaced by Toledo, who is now a former president in prison, had the
00:21:05massad in the palace, in the government palace. And in
00:21:09Peru, as we all know, we had massacre in which more than
00:21:1360 people died after the removal of President
00:21:16Castillo. They killed them for protesting, shooting them in the body.
00:21:20and those weapons and those rifles were Israeli, so
00:21:24Israel's relationship
00:21:26with the United States, as well as Israel's own objectives are
00:21:29absolutely clear, and as I repeat, the Washington Tell
00:21:33aviv axis in my opinion, is equivalent to the Berlin,
00:21:37Tokyo axis the second world war. We are living
00:21:41through neonarcism in the 21st century, and I believe that what we
00:21:45have to discuss with great concern is how, just as our grandparents or
00:21:48our parents had to...
00:22:21century, before we used to speak about the socialism the
00:22:2421st century, the contrast struck me as powerful,
00:22:28it is basically instrument of big capital for imposing itself on the
00:22:32peoples,
00:22:37so you have provided some very interesting information, what you told us
00:22:41about this kind of revenge for Chavez's
00:22:44audacity.
00:22:57the great weakness the Latin American people is allowing the
00:23:01criminal kidnapping of a president by mafia
00:23:04gang on the basis of an unfounded accusation, because
00:23:08they have now already said that the accusation against Maduro amounts to
00:23:12nothing, the cartal the sons does not exist, it is the weakness of
00:23:16all humanity, especially since the fall the Soviet Union. which was the
00:23:20only force equipped with nuclear weapons capable of imposing
00:23:24respect for international law. look, this Trump who is also a
00:23:28little crazy, apart from all the other things and interests that inhabit
00:23:32his mind, does not get along very well,
00:23:34and yet he speaks in glowing terms about the president the
00:23:37democratic people's republic of Korea. on the one hand, Marco Rubius
00:23:41spouse everyday an anti-communism more primitive than anything one
00:23:45could imagine, but Trump speaks well the president the Korean
00:23:49people.
00:23:58our guests who have provided truly important information for understanding what
00:24:02is happening not only in Venezuela, but I would say across
00:24:06the Latin American region. Thank you for
00:24:23For a man who built his entire political
00:24:27persona on invincibility and dominance, Donald
00:24:31Trump's recent behavior tells a very different
00:24:34story behind the bravado and the threats of
00:24:38decimating an entire nation, he's a president reportedly
00:24:42consumed by fear for his own life, and the roots of that
00:24:45fear traced directly back to decision he made himself. I'm a
00:25:06To understand why Trump is so preoccupied with his own mortality,
00:25:10we have to go back to January of 2020 when he personally
00:25:14ordered the drone strike that assassinated General Qasim
00:25:17Sulaymani in Baghdad. Trump himself has
00:25:21acknowledged that he believes he has been on Iran's kill
00:25:25list ever since, as he told the New York post in July
00:25:29of 2026, I've been number one for a long time, and it's the way life
00:25:33is, you know, that admission has not stopped Trump from
00:25:37taking extraordinary measures to protect himself. In July
00:25:402026, at the NATO summit in Ankara Turkia, US officials
00:25:44orchestrated an elaborate deception operation, reportedly switching Trump
00:25:48off of Air Force 1 and on different aircraft after
00:25:51intelligence suggested Iran had identified his hotel, his
00:25:55motorcate routes and was considering a shoulder mounted missile
00:25:59strike on his plane. Reuters lated reported that US intelligence could
00:26:03not independently verify the specific plot, but the secret service
00:26:07still moved him out of caution. Trump himself confirmed the switch weeks
00:26:10later, claiming he followed instructions due to a possible
00:26:14Iranian threat. That episode was far from
00:26:18isolated. Just this week on August 25, 2026,
00:26:21Iranian television reportedly aired a video linked to the
00:26:25revolutionary guards core claiming, this latest incident
00:26:28is part of a longer pattern in March 2026, defend. Secretary
00:26:32Pete Heksat claimed a U.S. air strike had killed an Iranian operative
00:26:36allegedly tied to a plot against Trump, declaring that Iran
00:26:40attempted to assassinate President Trump and President Trump has ultimately
00:26:44had the last laugh. Around the same time, a New York courtroom heard
00:26:47testimony in the trial of Asif Merchant a Pakistani national accused
00:26:51of plotting on Iran's behalf to assassinate Trump. A scheme
00:26:55prosecutors say was sketched out a napkin a budget
00:26:58motel. Faced with what he describes as a
00:27:02persistent threats to his life, Trump has responded not
00:27:06with quiet security measures alone, but with
00:27:09public threats of mass destruction. In July 2026, he
00:27:13posted that 100 missiles are locked and loaded and aimed at the
00:27:17Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands more to
00:27:20immediately follow, should Tehran act on what he called
00:27:24its threat to assassinate him. It is worth
00:27:28pausing on the sheer imbalance of that statement, a
00:27:31president the extrajudicial killing of foreign general
00:27:35on foreign soil is now threatening to completely decimate
00:27:39and destroy all areas of an entire nation over
00:27:42intelligence that his own government admits it is not able to verify.
00:27:46whether or not every alleged plot is real? the pattern is
00:27:50unmistakable. the man who once boasted of hunting down Iran's
00:27:54commanders now lives behind switched planes, secret motor cate routes
00:27:57and secret service warnings about videos threatening his own
00:28:01children. trump... wanted a war he assumed would be
00:28:04fought entirely on someone else's soil with
00:28:08someone else absorbing the cost the war. instead,
00:28:12five years after ordering general Sulaimani's assassination, he finds
00:28:15himself the one glancing over his shoulder. it is fitting
00:28:19if uncomfortable lesson for any leader who believes that violence
00:28:23abroad carries no consequences at home. the
00:28:27machinery of imperial aggression rarely stays contained
00:29:26The headlines Iran says a Pentagon reports on the damage
00:29:30done to US military assets in region is just the tip the
00:29:34iceberg and
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