Venezuela

18 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 11 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Aug 21, 2025 by Maria Corina Machado · said 69 times in 8 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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brought up most by Joe Lonsdale (48), Maria Corina Machado (17), Max Meyer (1), Jacob Helberg (1), Ben Black (1), Ambassador Kelly Craft (1)

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Everything said about Venezuela, oldest first

Aug 21, 2025 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Aug 2030
Machado: Millions of Venezuelans will return immediately once Maduro falls
“Millions of Venezuelan will come back immediately as soon as Maduro comes.”
Maria Corina Machado Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 24:36 From Prosperity to Ruins: Venezuela’s Fight for Freedom · Joe Lonsdale
Aug 21, 2025 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Lonsdale: Venezuela has fallen from Latin America's richest country to poorer than Haiti
“Venezuela has gone from the richest country in Latin America to poorer than Haiti.”
Joe Lonsdale Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 1:24 From Prosperity to Ruins: Venezuela’s Fight for Freedom · Joe Lonsdale
Aug 21, 2025
Assertion Contradicted
Machado Founded Venezuela's First Libertarian Political Party
“We created the first libertarian party in, in Venezuelan's history.”
Maria Corina Machado Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 23:40 From Prosperity to Ruins: Venezuela’s Fight for Freedom · Joe Lonsdale
Aug 21, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Machado: Democratic transition in Venezuela will be orderly and stable
“The transition in Venezuela to democracy will be orderly, will be stable, because we have a whole country that wants the same”
Maria Corina Machado Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 22:00 From Prosperity to Ruins: Venezuela’s Fight for Freedom · Joe Lonsdale
Aug 21, 2025 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Machado: Chavez Confiscated Over 5,000 Businesses Without Paying Owners
“And when Hugo Chavez came to power, he took over more than 5000 ongoing companies and enterprises and business, and he confiscated them without paying the owners.”
Maria Corina Machado Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 17:55 From Prosperity to Ruins: Venezuela’s Fight for Freedom · Joe Lonsdale
Aug 21, 2025
Disclosure
Machado: In Hiding for Over a Year Following Maduro's Terrorism Accusations
“Yes, I've been in hiding for over a year, just because after the elections, Maduro accused us, everybody involved in the election, which we won by a landslide, as you said, of terrorism.”
Maria Corina Machado Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 3:13 From Prosperity to Ruins: Venezuela’s Fight for Freedom · Joe Lonsdale
Aug 21, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Machado: Maduro Imprisoned Over 2,000 People and Disappeared 44 in Venezuela
“So he has put over 2000 people in prison. Over 800 are still in prison. 44 people disappeared. We don't know where they are. Children, women that have been tortured and they are looking for me.”
Maria Corina Machado Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 3:24 From Prosperity to Ruins: Venezuela’s Fight for Freedom · Joe Lonsdale
Aug 21, 2025
Assertion Supported
Machado Has Been Banned From Leaving Venezuela for Almost 12 Years
“I'd been banned from leaving Venezuela for almost 12 years.”
Maria Corina Machado Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 25:52 From Prosperity to Ruins: Venezuela’s Fight for Freedom · Joe Lonsdale
Aug 21, 2025 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Lonsdale: Venezuela is manufacturing weapons for United States adversaries
“It's producing with manufacturing plants, weapons for our adversaries.”
Joe Lonsdale Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 1:53 From Prosperity to Ruins: Venezuela’s Fight for Freedom · Joe Lonsdale
Aug 21, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Machado: Oil companies in Venezuela must partner with drug cartels
“If you operate here, you are forced to operate in alliance, in a society, with a mafia system, with a drug cartel.”
Maria Corina Machado Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 11:17 From Prosperity to Ruins: Venezuela’s Fight for Freedom · Joe Lonsdale
Aug 21, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Machado: Venezuela is Russia's sixth-largest military arms buyer
“Venezuela is the sixth largest armed military arms buyer of Russia.”
Maria Corina Machado Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 13:36 From Prosperity to Ruins: Venezuela’s Fight for Freedom · Joe Lonsdale
Aug 21, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Machado: Free Venezuela Represents Over $1.7 Trillion Business Opportunity
“Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans that now have taken refuge in the United States. They will come. They will come back home, and also a huge business opportunity will be open like no other in the region before. And we're talking about over 1.7 trillion doll…”
Maria Corina Machado Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 28:06 From Prosperity to Ruins: Venezuela’s Fight for Freedom · Joe Lonsdale
Aug 21, 2025 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Machado: DEA Estimates 24% of Global Cocaine Passes Through Venezuela
“Well, the DEA estimates that 24% of cocaine that it's a deal worldwide goes through Venezuela.”
Maria Corina Machado Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 6:30 From Prosperity to Ruins: Venezuela’s Fight for Freedom · Joe Lonsdale
Aug 21, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Machado: Venezuela Has the Largest Proven Oil Reserves Worldwide
“Venezuela has the highest, the largest proven oil reserves in the world.”
Maria Corina Machado Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 8:09 From Prosperity to Ruins: Venezuela’s Fight for Freedom · Joe Lonsdale
Aug 21, 2025 negative
Assertion Open · timeframe Aug 2025
Machado: Iran Operates Military Attack Drone Facility in Venezuela
“And the Iranian regime has production a facility that products drones military drones, attack drones in Venezuela. It's the only country in the region.”
Maria Corina Machado Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 5:30 From Prosperity to Ruins: Venezuela’s Fight for Freedom · Joe Lonsdale
Aug 21, 2025 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Machado: Chavez Seized 22M Acres Totaling 30% of Venezuela's Productive Land
“He took over twenty two million acres of productive land, over 30% of the total amount of productive land in Venezuela, and he destroyed everything.”
Maria Corina Machado Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 18:10 From Prosperity to Ruins: Venezuela’s Fight for Freedom · Joe Lonsdale
Aug 21, 2025 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Machado: Over 30% of Venezuela's Population Was Intentionally Forced to Flee
“We have over 30% of Venezuelan population that has been forced to flee. That was intentional.”
Maria Corina Machado Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 18:58 From Prosperity to Ruins: Venezuela’s Fight for Freedom · Joe Lonsdale
Sep 15, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Meyer: Former SF DA Chesa Boudin worked for Venezuela's presidential office
“He had enlisted to work in the presidential office of the Venezuelan dictator and the national media wasn't really paying attention to it.”
Max Meyer Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 20:16 The One Thing AI Will Never Replace · Joe Lonsdale
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