Tonight on Amanpour and Company, Monday, May 11th, 2026
María Corina Machado
Venezuelan Opposition Leader
A leader deposed, a newly compliant regime, and enriched uranium safely removed from the country. What sounds like President Trump’s ideal endgame for Iran is, in fact, already unfolding in Venezuela. Four months after the U.S. invaded Caracas and captured leader Nicolas Maduro, major oil companies are working to ink production deals as the White House pushes to unlock Venezuela’s vast energy reserves. The U.S. Department of Energy says enriched uranium has been removed from the country and flown to South Carolina — another sign of the close ties being forged between Washington and interim president Delcy Rodríguez. But, as Trump revels in this new partnership, what has become of the promise of democratic elections? It’s a question on the mind of opposition leader María Corina Machado, now in exile after leaving the country to accept her Nobel Peace Prize late last year — a prize she promptly gave to Trump. Machado joins Christiane from Washington.
Omer Bartov
Author, “Israel: What Went Wrong”
Since the start of the joint war against Iran, American support for Israel has fallen sharply. Some 60 percent of Americans now hold a negative view of Israel, raising concern inside the country that one of its key strategic assets — American support — is slipping away. With an election pending, pressure is mounting on Prime Minister Netanyahu, who has blamed social media for the shift in public opinion. But is it really just a messaging problem? In his new book “Israel: What Went Wrong,” Omer Bartov traces the origins of Israel’s present crisis back to its founding. Born on a kibbutz in Israel and raised in a Zionist household, a former IDF soldier and a leading scholar of Holocaust and genocide studies, Bartov sparked controversy when he declared that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The author joins Christiane from Massachusetts.
Bob Davis
Journalist/Co-author, "Superpower Showdown"
President Trump is due to meet China’s Xi Jinping in Beijing this week — the first visit by a U.S. president in nearly a decade. In talks between the world’s two largest economies — and largest militaries — trade will likely be high on the agenda, after the intense tariff war last year which ended in a truce. Journalist Bob Davis joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss what one small town’s recovery from the impact of Chinese imports reveals about the U.S. economy.
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