Venezuela

19 statements across 5 episodes · 1 bullish · 12 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Oct 28, 2025 by María Corina Machado · said 141 times in 34 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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brought up most by Jason Calacanis (46), María Corina Machado (25), David Sacks (8), Chamath Palihapitiya (8), David Friedberg (6), Brad Gerstner (4), Shervin Pishevar (2), Orlando Bravo (2)

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2026 50 mentions in 12 episodes 4 per episode
2025 73 mentions in 10 episodes 7 per episode
2024 2 mentions in 1 episode
2023 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2022 8 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
2021 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2020 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode

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Everything said about Venezuela, oldest first

Oct 28, 2025 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Machado: Over $2 trillion was stolen from Venezuela in 26 years
“The tag that Venezuela was robbed is over two trillion dollars.”
María Corina Machado Oct 28, 2025 ▶ 12:46 The Woman Who BEAT Maduro: Venezuela's Next Leader? Nobel Peace Prize Winner María Corina Machado
Oct 28, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Machado: Venezuela's oil wealth contrasts with children eating from garbage
“The country that has the largest oil reserves in the world have been walking around those areas where that oil is actually beneath the ground, and you see children eating from garbage.”
María Corina Machado Oct 28, 2025 ▶ 8:17 The Woman Who BEAT Maduro: Venezuela's Next Leader? Nobel Peace Prize Winner María Corina Machado
Oct 28, 2025 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Machado: Maduro regime imprisoned 2,500 people within 24 hours of 2024 election
“And, you know, in a matter of 24 hours, 2500 people were in prison, including Young people, children, women that were even sexually assaulted, abused, just because they had gone out to the streets to peacefully claim for their right, for public sovereignty to …”
María Corina Machado Oct 28, 2025 ▶ 32:04 The Woman Who BEAT Maduro: Venezuela's Next Leader? Nobel Peace Prize Winner María Corina Machado
Oct 28, 2025 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Machado: Chávez and Maduro gave thousands of passports to Hezbollah and Hamas
“Even terrorist groups such as Hezbollah, Hamas to which Chavez and Maduro have given thousands of Venezuelan's identities and passports to travel around freely around the world.”
María Corina Machado Oct 28, 2025 ▶ 14:59 The Woman Who BEAT Maduro: Venezuela's Next Leader? Nobel Peace Prize Winner María Corina Machado
Oct 28, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Machado: Venezuelan regime forced one-third of the population to flee
“We've been under this tyranny that has turned into a real criminal structure for 26 years that have turned, you know, what used to be one of the freest and richest countries in the Americas into one of the poorest and with a third of our population forced to f…”
María Corina Machado Oct 28, 2025 ▶ 2:12 The Woman Who BEAT Maduro: Venezuela's Next Leader? Nobel Peace Prize Winner María Corina Machado
Oct 28, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Machado: Won 92% of votes in Venezuela's 2023 opposition primary
“I am humbled. I am grateful. I got 92% of the votes, and Maduro realized that, you know, they wouldn't be able to stop me, so they banned me from participating.”
María Corina Machado Oct 28, 2025 ▶ 42:14 The Woman Who BEAT Maduro: Venezuela's Next Leader? Nobel Peace Prize Winner María Corina Machado
Oct 28, 2025
Disclosure
Machado: Opposition smuggled Starlink terminals into Venezuela to prove election win
“We smudled Starlink and antennas into the country, generators, Laptops, cell phones, and without the regime noticing it, we installed these a 130 operational places, and in less than 24 hours, we were able to prove our victory with the, you know, the images, o…”
María Corina Machado Oct 28, 2025 ▶ 47:10 The Woman Who BEAT Maduro: Venezuela's Next Leader? Nobel Peace Prize Winner María Corina Machado
Oct 28, 2025
Assertion Partly supported
Machado: Venezuela became China's largest debtor with over $60B in debt
“Well, Venezuela turned to be China's main debtor with over 60, 60 billion dollars in debts that, you know, accounted for all kinds of different projects that were never built.”
María Corina Machado Oct 28, 2025 ▶ 27:05 The Woman Who BEAT Maduro: Venezuela's Next Leader? Nobel Peace Prize Winner María Corina Machado
Oct 28, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Machado is banned from leaving Venezuela or taking domestic flights
“Look, I went with my car because I had been banned from living Venezuela for over 12 years. I'm not even allowed to buy a local flight ticket.”
María Corina Machado Oct 28, 2025 ▶ 36:23 The Woman Who BEAT Maduro: Venezuela's Next Leader? Nobel Peace Prize Winner María Corina Machado
Oct 28, 2025 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Machado: Pensions in Venezuela are under $1 per month
“The pensions in Venezuela are less than one dollar a month, David. One dollar a month.”
María Corina Machado Oct 28, 2025 ▶ 13:14 The Woman Who BEAT Maduro: Venezuela's Next Leader? Nobel Peace Prize Winner María Corina Machado
Oct 28, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Machado: 86% of Venezuela's population lives in poverty
“86% of our population nowadays lives In, in poverty.”
María Corina Machado Oct 28, 2025 ▶ 12:55 The Woman Who BEAT Maduro: Venezuela's Next Leader? Nobel Peace Prize Winner María Corina Machado
Oct 28, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Machado: Entire campaign team is either imprisoned or exiled
“But, you know, all my team, which, you know, managed the campaign, this campaign that took place are either in prison or they had to leave the country.”
María Corina Machado Oct 28, 2025 ▶ 33:54 The Woman Who BEAT Maduro: Venezuela's Next Leader? Nobel Peace Prize Winner María Corina Machado
Dec 13, 2025 negative
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Tucker Carlson predicts Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro will not leave power
“This is all an effort to get Maduro to leave. I don't think he's leaving.”
Tucker Carlson Dec 13, 2025 ▶ 1:22:50 Tucker Carlson: Rise of Nick Fuentes, Paramount vs Netflix, Anti-AI Sentiment, Hottest Takes
Mar 6, 2026
Assertion Partly supported
Chamath: Iran, Venezuela, and Russia account for ~40% of China's oil
“About a fifth of it comes exclusively from Iran and Venezuela, and now all of that is off the table. So if you take that, and then you see what Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner and Josh Greenbaum have been doing, which is trying to get a deal done in Russia, an…”
Chamath Palihapitiya Mar 6, 2026 ▶ 11:29 War with Iran + Pentagon vs Anthropic with Under Secretary of War Emil Michael
Mar 13, 2026 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Chamath: 20% of China's domestic oil consumption comes from Venezuela and Iran
“20% of their entire domestic consumption is oil from Venezuela and Iran.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 23:51 Iran War, Oil Shock, Off Ramps, AI's Revenue Explosion and PR Nightmare
Sep 4, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Sacks: Venezuela's oil production fell by two-thirds under Maduro
“Under Maduro, the production dropped by about two thirds over the last decade. So they used to produce about three million barrels a day. Under Maduro, it went down to about a million barrels a day.”
David Sacks Sep 4, 2026 ▶ 1:21:45 GPT-6 Hits AGI? Tech Euphoria 2.0, SF Mansion Shortage, NYC Bans AI in Schools & Venezuela Oil Deal
Sep 4, 2026 positive
Opinion
Sacks: US Venezuela oil agreement is purely a business deal, not nation building
“Well, I definitely don't think this is nation building. You know, we're not trying to stand up an army here like we did in Afghanistan. We're not trying to teach them about toxic masculinity. We're not trying to stand up a government or anything like that. We'…”
David Sacks Sep 4, 2026 ▶ 1:21:06 GPT-6 Hits AGI? Tech Euphoria 2.0, SF Mansion Shortage, NYC Bans AI in Schools & Venezuela Oil Deal
Sep 4, 2026 negative
Opinion
Sacks: Backing Machado in Venezuela would risk deploying US troops
“I'm glad that President Trump didn't put Machado in charge, because how's she going to stay in power? Like, what Guns are gonna basically protect her. You know, it takes men with guns to basically stay in power in these countries. I'm not saying that it can't …”
David Sacks Sep 4, 2026 ▶ 1:29:07 GPT-6 Hits AGI? Tech Euphoria 2.0, SF Mansion Shortage, NYC Bans AI in Schools & Venezuela Oil Deal
Sep 4, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Sacks: Venezuela sold oil to China at a $20/barrel discount
“They were selling at a discount to China. I think it was like a 20 dollar barrel discount to basically sell.”
David Sacks Sep 4, 2026 ▶ 1:24:02 GPT-6 Hits AGI? Tech Euphoria 2.0, SF Mansion Shortage, NYC Bans AI in Schools & Venezuela Oil Deal
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