Episode just landed: Rodrigo Acuña (independent journalist, PhD on Venezuelan foreign policy, Truthout contributor, documentary filmmaker) returns for a no-holds-barred follow-up on the escalating US-Venezuela crisis – dissecting Trump’s “total blockade” and multiple tanker seizures in December 2025, the over 100 deaths from US strikes, Maduro’s naval escorts and accusations of piracy, why the economic siege is hardening resistance rather than fracturing it, the risks of direct confrontation or broader war, the intertwined Essequibo dispute, and how even Maduro’s harshest critics inside Venezuela fear foreign intervention would only bring deeper chaos and neoliberal devastation in late 2025.
Experts Say Even Average Venezuelans Critical of Maduro Won’t Back Regime Change - Rodrigo Acuna
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