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U.S. to blockade “sanctioned” Venezuela oil tankers with military; John Nichols responds to Trump’s Oval Office address
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U.S. to blockade “sanctioned” Venezuela oil tankers with military; John Nichols responds to Trump’s Oval Office address
0:10 – We start today’s coverage in Venezuela. President Trump has announced a blockade on “sanctioned” Venezuelan oil vessels. Miguel R. Tinker Salas is professor emeritus of History at Pomona College and joins us to talk about Venezuela’s oil industry and this development, and parse the “absurdity” of Trump’s comments. He is the author of The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture and Society in Venezuela. “This was not about drugs,” Tinker Salas says. “This was about oil, this was about Western Hemisphere control, this was about geopolitics, this was about an effort to control the Caribbean and Central America, and U.S. hegemony.”
0:35 – Reviewing President Trump’s Oval Office address and recent revelations in interviews by White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, we are joined by John Nichols, executive editor of The Nation.
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