The Venezuela model for regime change

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  In Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela,

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  there are huge posters around the city with a slogan, Los queremos de vuelta.

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  We want them back.

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  The posters are calling for the return of the former president,

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  Nicolas Maduro, and his wife, Celia Flores.

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  The two have been in US custody since January, and they'll appear in court in New York on Thursday.

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  And yet, at the same time in Caracas,

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  The interim president, Delcy Rodriguez, welcomes U.S. Officials like old friends.

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  There was a moment when people wondered if Donald Trump

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  would try to do in Iran what he 's done in Venezuela.

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  But that moment has gone.

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  Venezuela is a unique case.

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  Almost three months on from Nicolas Maduro's ousting,

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  we go inside Venezuela to find out how Trump's first attempted regime change is going.

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  From the BBC, I'm Tristan Redmond in London.

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  And today on The Global Story, what is the so-called Venezuela model?

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  And is it working?

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  I'm Ioni Wells, the BBC's South America correspondent, and I'm based here in Sao Paulo.

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  But I 've just got back from a two-week trip to Venezuela,

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  which is the first time I 've been since 2024.

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