00:00.
00:05so three weeks after
00:10the U.S. attacked Venezuela.
00:11What does everyday life actually look like
00:13on the ground in Venezuela?
00:15It's been three weeks since the attack
00:18and I think we need to...
00:20start by thinking about the everyday life
00:23of these people and...
00:25thinking about going back to normal
00:26needs to take us back to just a people...
00:30that are going through for the first time
00:32a bomb attack in their territory
00:34and this...
00:35is a region that has no memory
00:37of such an attack.
00:39That means...
00:40that our generations have not passed along
00:43the knowledge of what it means to...
00:45be waking up to bombs
00:46and of course that has a psychological impact on...
00:50the population.
00:51Now, what we're looking at
00:53when we see the life in...
00:55the territory in Venezuela right now,
00:56first, we need to understand that
00:58with such an attack from...
01:00the U.S. against the institutionality of Venezuela,
01:03against the...
01:05the president of Venezuela
01:06who was kidnapped alongside his wife
01:08and deputy member as well...
01:10is that when you have such an attack
01:12against the institutionality,
01:13the way to receive...
01:15this that attack in this case
01:16is to continue that institutionality,
01:19to continue...
01:20exercising power over their own country.
01:22That's an exercise of sovereignty.
01:24So the institution...
01:25have continued...
01:26the National Assembly,
01:27the legislative power...
01:29today...
01:30we are seeing an everyday life...
01:32that is sort of back to normal...
01:35if we take into account...
01:36that normal now means...
01:37having gone through...
01:38a bomb attack on...
01:39different...
01:40sides of the Venezuelan territory...
01:42but people are out on the streets...
01:44they're continuing...
01:45continuing their lives...
01:46and that is an act of sovereignty itself.
01:48A new normal...
01:49obviously...
01:50people have to cope with...
01:51that has so many...
01:52uncertainties...
01:53about what's to come...
01:55next...
01:56now...
01:57how do you assess...
01:58the long-term impact...
01:59of such a direct...
02:00military intervention...
02:01in Venezuela?
02:02Well, I think...
02:03that we could...
02:04start by...
02:05saying that...
02:06or thinking...
02:07about the...
02:08idea that...
02:09maybe this was not just...
02:10intervention...
02:11but an attack...
02:12because...
02:13we do not have a change...
02:14of...
02:15power...
02:15in terms of...
02:16the control...
02:17over the territory...
02:18something that...
02:19I think...
02:20the US administration...
02:20tried to play...
02:21with that card...
02:22particularly...
02:23in western media...
02:24but that was...
02:25not what was happening...
02:26in the territory...
02:27we did have...
02:28an attack...
02:29and I think...
02:30that...
02:30of course...
02:31at least...
02:32the sought...
02:33long...
02:34long...
02:35consequences...
02:36are...
02:35the fact...
02:36of trying...
02:37to impose...
02:38a regime...
02:39of control...
02:40on...
02:40the...
02:41decision making...
02:42of...
02:43not only...
02:44Venezuela...
02:45but...
02:46the state...
02:45the states...
02:46of...
02:47the region...
02:48but...
02:49of...
02:50course...
02:51is that...
02:52going to...
02:53translate...
02:54into...
02:55reality...
02:56what...
02:57is that...
02:58going to...
02:59translate...
03:00into...
03:01reality...
03:02from the international community...
03:03as a whole...
03:04but also...
03:05inside...
03:06the US...
03:07so...
03:07are those...
03:08sought...
03:09long-term...
03:10consequences...
03:11going to...
03:12come into...
03:13effect...
03:14it depends...
03:15on...
03:16...
03:17...
03:12if the region...
03:13can...
03:14just...
03:15come together...
03:16in unity...
03:17and...
03:17face...
03:18face...
03:19this...
03:20sort of...
03:21imposition...
03:22and...
03:23trying...
03:24to...
03:25maintain...
03:26the...
03:27...
03:22sovereignty over their own territory. We're keeping a close watch not only on just how
03:27the region will react but also how the rest of the world will react on this.
03:32When Donald Trump talked about buying Greenland and openly threatened Iran,
03:37many saw it as a show of U.S. bully and henchmony. Do you see
03:42a clear link between that mindset and what happened in Venezuela in other
03:47words? Do you think that also accounted for what happened in Venezuela?
03:52Well definitely it's important we're talking about Trump to separate the
03:57Trump style from what is actually happening and definitely Trump is very
04:02good at imposing this style of dominance of talking to
04:07the media. He is very effective at imposing an agenda and in many cases
04:12that agenda is Trump himself. We are talking about what he's doing and what
04:17he's threatening to do and of course there is a style there but behind
04:22that figure and behind that way of communicating there is a strong
04:27strategy from a major power in the world that is trying to consolidate
04:32its position within a world that is changing within a world that
04:37is having multipolarity emerge in different senses and that is threats
04:42and that is threatening the complete dominance of the U.S. So that
04:45strategy of course is
04:47trying to tie it back to a control that is maybe in some
04:52corners of the world trying to slip away so definitely there is a link
04:56between
04:57these threats that are being said and also the confrontations with Europe
05:02different parts of the world but I also think that we
05:07need to come back and just think about the differences between maybe the
05:12threats with Greenland and the threats of the attacks with Iran and the actual
05:17kidnapping of a head of state that's what happened in
05:22Venezuela because that was a clear sign that the Latin American and Caribbean
05:27region hold particular importance for this U.S. administration and they are
05:32willing to push on the aggressiveness of the attack so definitely
05:37that is the region that's at stake at this moment.
05:47.
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