This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by historian and returning guest Alexander Aviña for an emergency update on the US attack against Venezuela, including the abduction of President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, and what could happen next. Alex is Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University, contributor to the newsletter Foreign Exchanges on Substack, author of Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside, and a founding member of the Anti-Imperial Scholars Collective (AISC).

Alex, Roqayah, and Kumars break down the latest escalation by the Trump administration, the response from US media and Democrats, the outpouring of international solidarity with Venezuela from Cuba to Palestine, acting president Delcy Rodriguez's commitment to the Bolivarian Revolution, and why Trump is right about Maria Corina Machado.

Follow Alex on Twitter @Alexander_Avina (not @Alex_Avina, who is someone else).

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