00:00Many of the Venezuelans who now live in Colombia here, who we've spoken to today, have been
00:07extremely pleased with the United States' decision to remove Maduro from Venezuela and
00:13take him to America.
00:16And that's because many of them had to flee due to their beliefs, their families or their
00:21connections under his regime.
00:24Of the eight million people that have fled Venezuela in the past decade or so, three
00:29million of them live in Colombia.
00:32Now we spoke to people who used to be political activists in the country, and we spoke to former
00:37opposition politicians in the country, and one individual told us that she found out
00:43her name was on a list of a number of people that were going to be detained and imprisoned
00:47one day.
00:48She had to hide in a safe room for two and a half months before she got the opportunity
00:54to flee the country.
00:56And now she lives here.
00:57Of course, she wants to go home.
00:59She says that she hasn't been able to obviously speak with people that she knows and loves
01:05because they're imprisoned in Venezuela.
01:08So she sees this as a great opportunity for a real transition and for an opportunity for
01:14real democracy.
01:16And I asked them, well, how do you feel about foreign intervention in your home country?
01:20And they said, well, it's not ideal to have a country like the United States to come into
01:25your country and do such a thing.
01:27They feel that the Maduro regime has been in power for so long and been so harmful to
01:32so many that they felt that this was necessary.
01:36And they see this as a positive.
01:37And they hope that obviously real Venezuelan democracy can now unfold here and this opportunity
01:44for transition.
01:46The opposition politician I spoke to said that Maduro and many people that were in his government
01:52are criminals and they should be arrested.
01:54They should be charged, which is what is which Maduro is now facing in New York.
01:59But it's not just the diaspora here.
02:01I spoke with Venezuelans who just happened to be in Colombia and they need to go back home.
02:06And they they said to me that they can't tell me truly how they feel on camera because they're
02:12happy about this decision, about this about this situation where Maduro has been removed
02:18because they say they often live in fear.
02:20They know family members that are in jail and they can't speak their mind.
02:23I spoke with one person.
02:24His name is Jesus.
02:26And he told me that he is hopeful that he's, whilst he's a little afraid, he's still hopeful
02:32that there can be real democratic transition here on now.
02:35I am a little scared.
02:38Let's hope that through this situation they'll start offering us real guarantees and that
02:42we're in a real transition to democracy.
02:44I'm talking about freeing of political prisoners, removing censorship from digital media and
02:49traditional media.
02:50Now, as Delcy Rodriguez was officially made the interim president of Venezuela, we still
02:57saw acts of this authoritarian government.
03:01Seven journalists, local Venezuelans, were detained today and they're the local press.
03:07That is why so many of the foreign press like myself here in Colombia reporting on this situation
03:13because we can't get access into the country.
03:16And if we did go in, we face increasing and dangerous risks to be detained, imprisoned or
03:21even worse.
03:23So that is why so much of the press is trying to report this story and trying to tell it
03:28to the best of our abilities from the side.
03:30And we're trying to speak with Venezuelans inside and outside.
03:34And we're relying on those brave freelance and those brave Venezuelans inside the country
03:39to deliver us those images and tell us the story inside Venezuela.
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