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Interview with Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty; Interview with Nobel Peace Prize Winner and Venezuelan Opposition Leader Maria Corina Machado; Interview with The Atlantic Editor in Chief Jeffrey Goldberg. Aired 1-2p ET
Aired October 15, 2025 - 13:00 ET
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AMANPOUR: So --
MACHADO: And Maduro has turned our country into a real threat to the national security of the United States and the hemisphere. And we're going to turn Venezuela from that criminal hub into an energy hub that brings prosperity and security to our people, first and foremost, but also to the rest of the people of the Western Hemisphere.
AMANPOUR: So, clearly Venezuela has a massive potential and riches, we know that. But, again, to the real critical issue of American involvement, you know in your hemisphere that there's been decades of it. And it hasn't all gone really well. Also, I wonder whether you were surprised that your -
- well, the president of Mexico did not join in the huge congratulations around the world, citing national sovereignty and self-determination. So, this obviously an issue. It's obviously an issue for various different leaders in Latin America.
Do you -- are you calling for American intervention in your country, military intervention?
MACHADO: We're calling for the interventions of Russia, China, Cuba and Iran to be stopped and to be expelled.
Venezuela right now is a safe haven where Hezbollah, Hamas, the drug cartels, the Colombian guerrilla operate freely. And they are part of this liaison with the regime.
And what we have done, the Venezuelan people, as I said, it's already mandated regime change. We won and we need help to enforce that decision.
And that help comes in terms of applying, enforcing the law, cutting those flows that come from these criminal activities. And you know what, making public, unveiling all the information many of these governments have, not only the United States, Latin America, European countries and governments
that have -- you know, that know that their financial systems are being used by these criminal activities. We want this to be absolutely made public.
And believe me, Christiane, as we speak, the Venezuelan people are organizing, yes, underground, under huge threat, but growing and growing hope and determined, determined to prevail. Venezuela will be free.
AMANPOUR: Maria Corina Machado, that was very clear indeed. And congratulations on your Nobel Prize. Thank you very much indeed.
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