leopoldo lopez, in madrid, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. welcome to hardtalk. thank you for the opportunity. welcome to hardtalk. it s great to have you on the show. back in 2019, your big idea as a key leader of the venezuelan opposition was to undermine socialist president nicolas maduro by creating an alternative president and an alternative government. would you now acknowledge that big idea has failed? well, certainly we were not able to remove the dictatorship. and if we are measured by that standard, certainly we didn t get to the results we expected. but it s also true for any other alternative that we ve tried for over 20 years. we ve tried voting. we won the national assembly with two thirds of the vote, and the dictatorship also dismantled the possibility of the national assembly to exercise its constitutional powers. we ve tried by protesting. we ve protested with hundreds of thousands of people throughout the years, and we ve also failed to remove the
supplies are at a premium. my guest is leopoldo lopez, long time venezuelan opposition leader and former political prisoner, now in exile in spain. is it time for him to acknowledge failure? leopoldo lopez, in madrid, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. thank you for the opportunity. it s great to have you on the show. back in 2019, your big idea as a key leader of the venezuelan opposition was to undermine socialist president nicolas maduro by creating an alternative president and an alternative government. would you now acknowledge that big idea has failed? well, certainly we were not able to remove the dictatorship. and if we are measured by that standard, certainly we didn t get to the results we expected. but it s also true for any other alternative that we ve tried for over 20 years. we ve tried voting. we won the national assembly with two thirds of the vote, and the dictatorship also dismantled the possibility of the national assembly to exercise its constitutio
Violent criminals to be released from prison. Were were going to play that and vet him tonight. But first, our countdowns. Continues. Y five shortwe aaway days away from these Pivotalve Midterm elections. And democrats have lost all touch with reality now. Yesterday, we showed you the new devastating economic numbers. T inflation went up coreup inflation going up, food, rent, energy all the way up. The stock market, meanwhile, plummeted. It tanked. It dropped significantly. Itignificathe biggest drop since the height of the pandemic. This but one month after the democrats passed their socalled inflation reduction ac t, or as i call it,reduct the tax, the poor, middle class and people on Fixed Income Act T Of Twenty , twenty two. It doesnt actually do anything to reduce inflation. It will increase inflation. It. A is just a massive green n, deal spending bill that, wors as predicted, is making inflation far worse, making Everythingg Evensive more expenn ever. And now, by the way, t to a
why the nichols family is criticizing the investigation. plus, we re talking to troy carter. dangerous weather across the south and midwest being blamed for at least one death in texas. we re live with what s expected to be a multi-day ice storm and where it s headed next. the high-stakes meeting today between secretary of state antony blinken and the head of hamas. and an exclusive interview with homeland secretary alejandro majorca. it s my hope they take that problem and they fix it. we begin this hour in memphis where more first responders are facing disciplinary action over the tyre nichols death. the memphis police department now says two more officers were relieved of duty after the brutal and deadly beating of nichols which was captured on video. one of the newly named officers preston hemphill was involved in the initial traffic stop and used a taser on nichols before he fled from police. his lawyer says he was never present at the second seen. lawyer