Listen: 3 Hour Coverage of the U.S. Kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicholás Maduro and Spouse Celia Flores
Venezuelan President Nicholás Maduro and his wife Celia Flores in 2019 before their recent abduction by the U.S. military under orders from President Donald Trump.
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After months of destroying civilian boats off the coast of Venezuela, killing scores of civilians which the Trump administration claimed were involved in the illicit drug trade, the US military staged a violent incursion into that country and abducted President Nicholas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores.
On Saturday, Jan. 3, WBAI-Pacifica broadcast the President's first press conference since the invasion of Venezuela live, followed by over three hours of expert analysis hosted by WBAI Evening News anchor Paul DiRienzo.
Contributors include: Gabriel Aguirre, Latin American organizer for World Beyond War (calling in from Caracas, Venezuela); Laura Jedeed, writer at FirewalledMedia.com and an Army veteran who served two tours in the War in Afghanistan; Egberto Willes, host of KPFT's Politics Done Right; James Henry, a fellow of Yale University’s Global Justice program; Joe Wilson, union consultant and labor historian; Nolan Higdon, host of The Disinfo Detox Podcast and lecturer at UC Santa Cruz; and Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, a civil rights attorney, professor of Constitutional Law at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY), and author of the new book, A Protest History of the United States.
WBAI also opened up the phones for listener calls on the invasion and what it means for the US, Venezuela, and the rest of the world.
Listen to the entire show below: