Iran & Venezuela: The Regime Change Trap

In this video, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald examines U.S. policy toward Venezuela, focusing in particular on María Corina Machado and the Trump administration’s approach following the removal of Nicolás Maduro.

What became of the promises of freedom, democracy, and political change? Greenwald examines the dispute over Venezuela’s oil, the role of the opposition, and the question of what interests Washington is actually pursuing. He also draws parallels with Iran and other cases in which political exile groups have placed their hopes in U.S.-backed regime change.

This video was produced by System Update and published on their YouTube channel on the 5th of September, 2026. We have translated it into German and are republishing it today to help build opinion on this issue in Germany and beyond.

To read the transcript of the interview: Iran & Venezuela: The Regime Change Trap

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ABOUT GLENN GREENWALD

Glenn Greenwald is a former constitutional lawyer, a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, and the author of several bestsellers, including No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State (2014) and Securing Democracy: My Fight for Press Freedom and Justice in Bolsonaro’s Brazil (2021).  Acclaimed as one of the 25 most influential political commentators by The Atlantic, one of America’s top 10 opinion writers by Newsweek, and one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers for 2013 by Foreign Policy, Greenwald is a former constitutional and civil rights litigator. He was a columnist for The Guardian until October 2013 and a co-founder and former editor at The Intercept, which he left in 2020 to launch his own show System Update on Rumble.