HeyJaredMemos to the President
Memos to the President is a podcast series from the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP), dedicated to providing bold, actionable ideas to the current U.S. administration.
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- Jul 23, 2026
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Episode 48: A Conversation with Leopoldo López & Félix Maradiaga on Venezuela’s Transition (opens the original)
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Leopoldo López is a Venezuelan political leader and human rights advocate who spent over six years as a political prisoner of the Maduro regime, before escaping Venezuela in 2020. He currently serves as co-founder of the World Liberty Congress, uniting pro-democracy movements against authoritarianism worldwide. Félix Maradiaga is a Nicaraguan academic, human rights defender, and former presidential candidate who was arbitrarily imprisoned for 611 days before being exiled by the Ortega regime. He
Episode 47: A Conversation with Taro Kono, Former Foreign, Defense & Digital Minister of Japan (opens the original)
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In Tokyo, SCSP President Ylli Bajraktari and Senior Director for Foreign Policy Joe Wang sat down with Taro Kono — former Foreign Minister, Defense Minister, and Digital Minister of Japan, and one of the most influential figures in the LDP — for a wide-ranging conversation on Japan's place in a rapidly shifting world. Kono traces how China's rise changed everything, offers a candid read on Trump's Beijing visit and what it signaled to Tokyo, lays out Japan's path toward higher defense spending a
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