Venezuela under pressure: How far will Washington go?

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  Cutting through an overload of information to get to the heart of the story.

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  This is The Point.

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  Welcome to The Point, an opinion show coming to you from Beijing.

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  I'm Lee Shin.

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  So far from God and so close to the United States the famous quote attributed to former Mexican president Paul of the real Diaz now seems to apply to Venezuela Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and First Lady Celia Flores are being held at a detention center in New York to face charges ranging from truck trafficking to possession of heavy weaponry US president Donald Trump has warned that acting Venezuelan president Delcey Rodriguez will pay a big prize,

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  probably bigger than Maduro, if she doesn't do, quote unquote, what's right.

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  Meanwhile,

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  the United Nations Security Council is to convene an emergency meeting on the matter on Monday following a request from Venezuela.

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  How precarious is the situation in Venezuela?

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  How far will the U.S.

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  go to protect its sphere of influence in the Western Hemisphere and what will be the geopolitical repercussions?

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  for Latin America.

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  I'm pleased to be joined from San Diego Chile by Vijay Prashad,

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  the director of Tri-Continental Institute for Social Research,

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  and from Shanghai, Jiang Chu-Chu,

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  professor of the School of International Relations and Public Affairs at Fudan University.

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  Welcome to both of you.

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  Vijay, let me go straight to you.

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  So according to what you have learned,

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  what's the latest on the ground in characters, the capital of Venezuela?

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