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What has changed in Venezuela since Trump ousted Maduro_ · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: We want peace, liberty, and justice for the great people
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  Speaker 1: of Venezuela. We can't take a chance that somebody else
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  Speaker 1: takes over Venezuela that doesn't have the good of the
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  Speaker 1: Venezuela and people in mind. We're going to stay until
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  Speaker 1: such time as we're going to run it, essentially until
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  Speaker 1: such time as a proper transition can take.
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  Speaker 2: That was President Trump on the day US military force
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  Speaker 2: has captured the former Venezuelan leader, Nicholas Maduro three months ago.
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  Speaker 2: Maduro had been in power since twenty thirteen, and at
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  Speaker 2: the time was serving his third term, despite widely held
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  Speaker 2: doubts about the validity of the most recent election. He
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  Speaker 2: and his wife have both pleaded not guilty to drug
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  Speaker 2: related charges. They're being held separately at a federal detention
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  Speaker 2: center in Brooklyn, New York. No trial date has been set.
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  Speaker 2: Maduro's vice president, Delta Rodriguez, has taken over as Venezuela's
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  Speaker 2: acting leader. President Trump said last month she was quote
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  Speaker 2: doing a great job, and on Wednesday he said the
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  Speaker 2: US and Venezuela were working incredibly well together. Is National
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  Speaker 2: correspondent Lilia Luciano joins US, now you were in Venezuela
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  Speaker 2: two months after Maduro's removal, and you've been covering this
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  Speaker 2: very closely. What did you see what has changed?
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  Speaker 3: Lindsay? I think January third, when you're in Venezuela is
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  Speaker 3: talked about it to the degree that we would talk about,
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  Speaker 3: you know, big milestones or big holidays in the US,
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  Speaker 3: depending on who you ask. For some the people who
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  Speaker 3: support Maludu is a tragedy. For others, the opposition people,
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  Speaker 3: it's a big celebration, it's a big day. There was
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  Speaker 3: a before and after. Immediately after January third, there was
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  Speaker 3: a tripling of the repression. People were truly afraid of
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  Speaker 3: the figures of the regime. You had the paramilitary groups
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  Speaker 3: that were taking people's cell phones. There was a lot
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  Speaker 3: of fear, but that has since calmed down greatly. Right now,
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  Speaker 3: what I saw a month ago when I was in
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  Speaker 3: Venezuela walking around Garakaz is a place that's still struggling
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  Speaker 3: with incredible inflation. Their systems are still collapsed. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you're not yet seeing the money that is coming in
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  Speaker 3: from that oil sector, from those US investments, the billions
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  Speaker 3: of dollars. You're not seeing it in people's everyday lives.
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  Speaker 3: But there is this sense, as I mentioned when I
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  Speaker 3: was there, of just optimism of trust or at least
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  Speaker 3: of patients from all sides. The Chavistas, the people who
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  Speaker 3: support Maluu kept telling me, look, we think that he
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  Speaker 3: might still come back. He could be tried and declared
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  Speaker 3: innocent in the United States and come back to a rule.
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  Speaker 3: The people of the opposition are saying, kind of, we
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  Speaker 3: understand that it couldn't be day to night. Suddenly the
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  Speaker 3: opposition is going to rise to power. As you mentioned,
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  Speaker 3: that election was not just challenged all of the international observers.
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  Speaker 3: I was there covering that election, and I remember the
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  Speaker 3: international observers running away from the hotel before giving the results,
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  Speaker 3: recognizing not just irregularities, but really that it was the
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  Speaker 3: opposition who won.
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  Speaker 4: Later on they showed the evidence.
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  Speaker 3: Most of the global community recognized that Maludo lost that election.
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  Speaker 2: Let's play some of your reporting from twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 4: Opposition leader Mariacorina Machallo was banned by the government from
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  Speaker 4: running for president earlier this year, and she says it
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  Speaker 4: was her proxy presidential candidate in Mundo Gonzales, who, according
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  Speaker 4: to their latest tallies, was ahead by forty points s.
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  Speaker 3: How do you describe this ressaut somewhere afic. It's a
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  Speaker 3: rotesque violation of.
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  Speaker 4: A popular and everybody knows.
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  Speaker 3: So it's been very dissonant for the people who support
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  Speaker 3: the opposition, for the seventy percent of Venezuelans who voted
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  Speaker 3: and elected at Mundo Sales Ruta, to see that that
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  Speaker 3: day happened, that Maluda is no longer in power, that
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  Speaker 3: he's in prison, but that his number two is still
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  Speaker 3: running the country. The thing with the opposition and what
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  Speaker 3: Mariakurina Machello is doing now is preparing for an eventual
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  Speaker 3: process of democracy. She met with Marco Rubio this week,
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  Speaker 3: with our Secretary of State Mark Rubio. He is it
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  Speaker 3: seems giving her a sense of we are still supporting you,
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  Speaker 3: potentially asking for patients. We don't know the exact details
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  Speaker 3: that I've been trying to find out of exactly what
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  Speaker 3: was discussed, but she has been saying to US oil companies,
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  Speaker 3: inviting them to invest in Venezuela and really striking the
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  Speaker 3: difference between what is happening now and the future that
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  Speaker 3: she promises. But she's not in Venezuela yet. The opposition
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  Speaker 3: there at least the majority of the political prisoners have
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  Speaker 3: been released. They're perhaps quietly organizing, but they're organizing under
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  Speaker 3: these structures of power of the regime that had oppress
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  Speaker 3: them for decades. So it's a very different situation to
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  Speaker 3: anything that I've covered and that has happened in many countries. Importantly,
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  Speaker 3: it's very different from Iran. There's no boots on the ground,
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  Speaker 3: there's pressure, there's diplomatic pressure. Now the embassy's open, there's
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  Speaker 3: diplomatic relations that have been restored. But the United States
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  Speaker 3: didn't you know, civilians didn't die. It wasn't an Asian
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  Speaker 3: it was an extraction of Nicolas Mo keep his post, okay, absolutely, Luciena,
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  Speaker 3: thank you,