Venezuela – what now?

Following the dramatic capture of the President of Venezuela and his wife by US special forces on January 3rd, The Briefing Room asks what’s next for Venezuela? Nicolas Maduro and Cilia Flores have been indicted on drug trafficking and weapons charges in a New York court while in Venezuela the deputy president, Delcy Rodriguez has been sworn in as the country’s interim president. Meanwhile Donald Trump says he is in charge of Venezuela. David Aaronovitch and a panel of Latin American experts discuss who will actually govern Venezuela, what’s going to happen with the oil industry and what the implications are for the rest of the region.

GUESTS

Hal Hodson, Americas editor, The Economist

Christopher Sabatini, Senior Research Fellow for Latin America at Chatham House

Vanda Felbab-Brown Senior Fellow Foreign Policy, Brookings Institution

Presenter: David Aaronovitch

Producers: Caroline Bayley and Kirsteen Knight

Production Co-ordinator: Maria Ogundele

Sound Engineer: James Beard

Editor: Richard Vadon