What’s Next in Venezuela?
1/4/202644 min
Now that US President Donald Trump has removed Venezuela’s head of state and says America will “run” the country for the time being, Fareed assesses the fallout and likely next developments with International Crisis Group Senior Fellow Phil Gunson and New York Times correspondent David Sanger.
GUESTS: Phil Gunson (@philgunson), David Sanger (@SangerNYT), Richard Haass (@RichardHaass), Zanny Minton Beddoes (@zannymb), Karim Sadjadpour (@ksadjadpour), Ruchir Sharma
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First 90 secondsFareed Zakaria· Host0:01
This is GPS, the Global Public Square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world. I'm Fareed Zakaria, coming to you live from New York. Today, we'll devote much of the program to yesterday's extraordinary events in Venezuela, the capture of a sitting head of state, President Nicolas Maduro, and his removal to the United States to face justice. The big question, of course, what happens next? I will talk to one of the smartest outside observers of Venezuela, Phil Gunson, live from that country's capital, Caracas. Then, what precedent does this American action set for the rest of the world? I'll talk about that and more with Richard Haass and Zanny Minton Beddoes. Then, Iran, the people are rising up and taking to the streets once again in the largest protests since the 2022 killing of Mahsa Amini. What does this mean for the future of that regime? I'll discuss with the Carnegie Endowment's Karim Sadjadpour. I'll bring you my take later in the show, but I wanted to get straight to the big news of this weekend. Ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro woke up this morning at the Metropolitan Detention Center in New York City, around 24 hours after he was woken in the middle of the night by US Special Forces and FBI agents and taken on a journey that ended in Brooklyn.