Trump Says U.S. Will ‘Run the Country’ After Capture of Maduro.
ABC News reports US Captures Maduro, Carries Out ‘Large Scale Strike’ in Venezuela: Trump
President Donald Trump said the U.S. “successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela” and said Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife were “captured and flown out of the Country.”
The announcement on Trump’s social media platform came shortly before 4:30 a.m. Saturday a few hours after several explosions were heard in Venezuela’s capital city of Caracas, witnesses said, and photos and videos showed plumes of smoke and a large fireball in the night sky.
Trump said the operation was carried out in conjunction with U.S. law enforcement. Members of Congress said the military, which sources included the elite Delta Force, was in place to support that law enforcement operation.
“I spoke with Secretary [of State Marco] Rubio this morning. He did share that we did have wounded personnel, but no killed, but that is never guaranteed in advance,” Cotton said on Fox News.
‘Speed and Violence’
The president went into more detail about the operation later in an interview with Fox News, saying the attack was something nobody else could have done, and “extremely complex” executed with “speed and violence.”
“The whole maneuver, the landings, the number of aircraft which were massive number, the number of helicopters, the different type of helicopters, different type of fighter jets, we had a fighter jet for every possible situation,” he said in the phone interview.
“And really they just broke in, and they broke into places that were not really able to be, broke into, you know, steel doors that was were put there for just this reason, and they got taken out in a matter of seconds,” he added.
Alleged ‘Narco-Terrorism Conspiracy’
Attorney General Pam Bondi said that Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, “will soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts” on a slew of charges in New York, including “narco-terrorism conspiracy” and “cocaine importation conspiracy” as well as weapons charges. Maduro has faced the charges in New York for years.
A federal indictment against Maduro, and his family was unsealed Saturday, saying he was “at the forefront” of a narco-terrorism conspiracy that imported tons of cocaine into the United States.
Maduro was taken by helicopter to the US Iwo Jima and would be transported to New York, according to Trump.
One person told ABC News that Trump had given the green light to capture Maduro several days ago and troops were ready to strike on Christmas Day, but were delayed due to military airstrikes in Nigeria against ISIS. Subsequent opportunities were postponed partly due to weather, the person said.
‘No further action’ anticipated
Republican Sen. Mike Lee, of Utah, said in a post on X that he spoke with Secretary of State Marco Rubio over the phone about the actions being taken in Venezuela after initially asking “what, if anything, might constitutionally justify this action in the absence of a declaration of war or authorization for the use of military force.”
Sen. Ruben Gallego, of Arizona, blasted Trump’s move, calling it the “second unjustified war in my life time” in a post on X. “This war is illegal, it’s embarrassing that we went from the world cop to the world bully in less than one year. There is no reason for us to be at war with Venezuela.”
US Will Run the Country
The New York Times reports Venezuela Live Updates: Trump Says U.S. Will ‘Run the Country’ After Capture of Maduro
President Trump said the United States would “run” Venezuela “until such time that we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition,” following the U.S. military operation that captured the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife.
Trump referred to a “partnership” between Venezuela and the United States, which he said would make Venezuelans “rich, independent and safe.” Of course, this was a partnership accomplished by a government overthrow.
“We are going to run the country until such time that we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition,” Trump said, suggesting an occupation.
What Is the Legal Case Against Maduro?
The Wall Street Journal asks What Is the Legal Case Against Maduro?
Some Venezuela experts believe that prosecutors will have a difficult time proving Nicolas Maduro’s drug involvement. He is accused of leading a group called the Cartel of the Suns.
“Legally, the biggest problem they will have is to demonstrate in a court that the Cartel of the Suns exists, and that he commands it,” said Brian Naranjo, a former senior U.S. diplomat who served in Venezuela.
Unlike some other drug-trafficking organizations, the Cartel of the Suns isn’t a hierarchical cartel but rather a diffuse network mostly made up of military officers, said Phil Gunson, a Caracas-based analyst for the International Crisis Group.
U.S. prosecutors trace Venezuela’s drug-trafficking connections to the presidency of the late Hugo Chávez, who ordered generals to provide weapons to a now-defunct guerrilla group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. That group signed a peace treaty with Colombia’s government and disarmed in 2016, but renegade FARC members have now joined other drug trafficking organizations.
President Trump said the U.S. is going to run Venezuela until there can be “a safe, proper and judicious transition” following the U.S. military operation that captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife early Saturday morning.
“We can’t take a chance that somebody else takes over Venezuela that doesn’t have the good of the Venezuelan people in mind,” Trump said, speaking to reporters at his Mar-a-Lago club. “We’re not going to let that happen.”
Fortunate Son
Trump Posts Video of the Strike. The tune is Creedence Clearwater Revival “Fortunate Son”.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/115832049332877712
Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Fortunate Son” is a powerful protest song criticizing the class inequality and social injustice of the Vietnam War draft, highlighting how the wealthy and powerful used their influence to avoid service while working-class sons fought and died. Written by John Fogerty, it expresses outrage that “some folks are born with silver spoons in hand,” sending others to war while their own children get deferments, making it a timeless anthem against privilege and corruption.
Key Themes & Meanings:
- Class Warfare: The song isn’t strictly anti-war but anti-class system, exposing how the rich dictated wars while the poor paid the ultimate price.
- Draft Dodging: Lyrics like “It ain’t me, it ain’t me / I ain’t no millionaire’s son” directly address the unfairness of the draft, where privilege meant avoiding combat.
- Abuse of Power: Fogerty points to political elites (“senators,” “millionaires”) whose sons were shielded from the conflict they helped create.
- Social Injustice: It taps into broader themes of inequality, with the powerful benefiting while the marginalized serve.
Context & Legacy:
- Vietnam War Era: Written during the height of the war, it resonated with the counterculture’s opposition to the conflict and militarism.
- Iconic Status: Its message of privilege vs. sacrifice cemented its status as a symbol of protest, famously used in films like Forrest Gump.
- Timeless Relevance: The song remains powerful because its themes of wealth disparity and political power’s influence on ordinary lives still resonate today.
Fortunate Son analysis by Google AI.
Getting the Oil – Live Comment Updates
“We are going to get the oil the way it should be,” said Trump in a press conference.
“The country will largely be run by the people standing behind me.” [Marco Rubio was standing behind Trump.] NYT Addition: Some of the advisers standing behind him include Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and General Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
Trump put no time limit on the American occupation. It would be up to the United States to decide when to return the country to Venezuelan control. And then he turned to oil, saying that American companies would fix the infrastructure, “and start making money for the country.”
“We’re not afraid of boots on the ground if we have to have” them, Trump said. This is the opposite of what his administration has repeatedly said its posture is.
“We are in the oil business and we will be selling it.”
“We will have the greatest oil companies in the world going in.”
“It won’t cost us anything because of the money coming out of the ground.”
Oil will be used to repay the US for damages said Trump.
“I’m not thrilled with Putin. He’s killing too many people.”
“It’s all a deal. Life is a big deal.”
Question of the Day
How long will this keep US minds off inflation, housing, deportations, food, and jobs?
Addendum
Illegal Possession of Machine Guns
A New First
Tulsi Call Home
It All Worked Out So Well Last Time
Who Knew?
Obama Is Desperate
The part of the CCR song that hits home with me is ‘when the tax man comes house looks like a rummage sale’. Probably be me Harley this year means how parts of kansas have gone from affordable to complete BS.
Empire is desperate and broke. So let’s go to war and steal Russia’s money and the number 1 oil reserve in the world.
bonus points for using the proper term for our empire. most amerikans are too stoopid to even know this basic math.
it beats starving
Tulsi better be careful. She is making TOO MUCH SENSE and THAT will NOT be TOLERATED1
It’s a good thing Kamala isn’t President. She wouldn’t have had the guts to take the tough action Trump is doing in Venezuela!
She would have probably had the better sense not to start another foreign war / occupation. And you probably did not vote for the Maga promise of no more foreign military adventures?
What an utter clown show:
US intel studied his movements, protection detail, bla bla and then moved with precision to discover him sleeping in his own bed in his own home.
Flying with great skill and courage (wait, not a single stinger nor any AD ordinance used; like they had prior permission) they flew to …his house.
Using “Fortunate Son” as background, as though they just don’t get it, these nouveau riche uncultured rubes.
US citizens are worried about making the end of the month; 9.3 Million Americans Work Multiple Jobs To Make Ends Meet.
But hear hear Trump!
We will make the people of Venezuela rich, independent, and safe.
Gangsta sh¡t
O yeah. And the strongest proof of his narco-terrorism is that he fired a bunch of military officers for their involvement in smuggling cocaine. [!]
Multi-faction, Syrian-style civil war, with regional spillover into Brazil & Colombia.
NOW THE BATTLE TO SEE WHO WILL BE THE TOP PUPPET. REMEMBER WHEN WOLFOWITZ WAS THE GOVERNOR OF IRAQ. ALL THE CUNTS I KNEW THOUGHT THAT WAS JUST DUCKY.
https://x.com/mamomvpy/status/2007516714104435024?s=46
https://x.com/mamomvpy/status/2007516714104435024?s=46
Green Light to Vlad to do the same to Zelensky.
But I doubt the Russian army could pull this off, unlike the Americans
And china to Taiwan.
But this is how things worked before WW1. Empires disucssing their backyard areas/preys. Maybe Trump green lighted explicitly China and Russia to act like this in secret?
amerikan politicians and people used the proper term for our empire in the pre ww1 era. it’s so funny how stupid the modern past 3 generations have become. morons and nihilists.
My take on this is that its part of a grand geo-strategic plan to consolidate the US’s military dominance by destabilizing the proxies of Russia and China probably started during Biden’s administration if not before. Look at what happened to Syria (Russian proxy), is happening now in Iran (Russian and Chinese proxy) and now Venezuela (Russian and Chinese proxy) who also just so happens to have the greatest petroleum reserves on the planet.
I don’t trust Trump not to screw things up and/or to line his pockets in the process of course, but who would trust the Russians who have a kleptocratic oligarchy or the Chinese who have a somewhat less overbearing oligarchy to become the dominant military force on the planet? We have an oligarchy of course, but we also have a constitution that if we aren’t totally stupid can keep it being a somewhat suave oligarchy…and a nation that could redeem its oligarchic character IF WE IMPLEMENT THE NEW MONETARY AND ECONOMIC PARADIGM OF STRATEGIC MONETARY GIFTING.
BUDGET DEFICIT and GOLD PRICE
said, Tata, Cheerio.
See you in Next Life.
Invading Venezuela violates our laws according to our US Constitution only congress can declare war! That said donny is a corporatist and war monger! No blood for oil! No more war and spend our money here in America
Well done, Trump.
I’ve seen this movies before – 2001 in Afghanistan, Taliban government was toppled.
2002 Iraq war. Shock and Awe strategy.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.
Then . . . you know?
You sure dont advocate what you are calling yourself Peace.
So based on this precedent, China can make up some flimsy charges, then attack and take over Taiwan without US objection.
I might feel somewhat less angry with our impotent congress and war mongering executive branch of our government IF the flow of drugs actually decreases. I don’t know whether I should be optimistic though.
I wouldn’t be, given that drugs seems to come mostly from Mexico, not Venezuela. Leave it to Trump to fill in the wrong country name in the attack order.
Really, is denying a fellow American’s liberty to choose to snort a little cocaine really worth killing people and toppling governments? How freaking sick are people?
Maybe we should ban alcohol. It’s far worse than cocaine. Far more deaths.
Does everyone think America was totally alone on this?
I’m not so sure……..Again, might not justify it but I’m curious to see what comes out as this unravels
We are that efficient that this went undetected?
Fine, now do Tampon Tim and Gavin Newscum for various billion dollar frauds and Rico violations, draft dodging Donnie. .
Five Takeaways From The US’ “Special Military Operation” In Venezuela
Andrew Korybko
Jan 03, 2026
It was astoundingly successful and will likely serve to coerce the rest of the hemisphere into strategically capitulating to the US.
The US launched a half-hour-long “special military operation” in Venezuela on Saturday morning that culminated in Delta Force’s capture of President Nicolas Maduro. Several military sites were bombed, US helicopters flew freely over Caracas in a surreal display of the US’ aerial supremacy, and there were reportedly no US casualties. The US’ “special military operation” was therefore an astounding success regardless of one’s personal opinions about its merits. Here are five takeaways from this event:
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1. The US’ Grand Strategic Goal Is To Build “Fortress America”
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https://korybko.substack.com/p/five-takeaways-from-the-us-special
Right the school yard bully beat the crap out of the skinny kid half his size and now he’s a very proud asshole. Cocaine will continue to flow unimpeded. But we’ll get the oil, maybe. We might forget about trump and the pedophile for a little while. I hope every day to see the news trump is dead but so far disappointed, but any day now PARTY TIME!
Riddle me this Mish…
What does this action have to do with the sudden spike upward in the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet?
https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttrends.htm
Are the two related?
Is the spike relevant or simply a year end squaring of positions?
Is the $102 billion three week spike related to the Chinese ban on the export of strategic metals?
Has a TBTF bank fallen into insolvency?
What effect will this have on the stock market?
Which oil companies will this benefit the most?
For those that open the above link to the Federal Reserves Balance Sheet. You will want to click on the 1 year (weekly) link at the top of the chart to see the relevant recent spike upward.
😉
I like the first chart better (from 2008 on) before you narrowed it to a 1-year view. With the initial graph, I could not see your “sudden spike” of 1.5% in 3 weeks without my reading glasses LOL
Hope your New Year is a restful one
Thank You! The best to you in 2026…
Looking at both is best and recognizing sudden shifts in Fed liquidity policy is quite important to me as a recreational stock, futures & options trader.
This sudden injection of liquidity reflects some instability that the Fed has privy to.
If the US is going to engage in regime change please send the Blackhawks to London,specifically SW1- and remove our a**hole in chief. Preferably permanently.
You would have our undying gratitude.
Mar-a-largo first.
History be rhyming…
“The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel in 1980 had concluded that the FBI didn’t have the authority to apprehend and abduct a foreign national to face justice. But George H.W. Bush administration’s OLC quietly reversed that in the summer of 1989.
A memo written by William P. Barr, who would later become attorney general in that Bush administration and Trump’s first administration, said a president had “inherent constitutional authority” to order the FBI to take people into custody in foreign countries, even if it violated international law to do so.
That memo was soon used to justify the operation to remove Noriega. (As it happens, Noriega was captured the same day Maduro was: January 3,1990.)”
From “Trump attacked Venezuela and arrested its president. Is that legal?” Trump’s legal authority in Venezuela, explained | CNN Politics
Laws!
Laws!
Laws are meant to be broken.
Noriega was Bush’s bestie when Bush was head of the CIA. Noriega had to go he knew too many secrets about Bush.
It appears Trump is using the dictators decade’s old playbook, when your backs against the wall launch some military action somewhere, anywhere, to deflect attention.
Doesn’t the US have enough internal problems , poverty and crumbling infrastructure to deal with , without launching a crusade elsewhere.
How is Trump going to stop the giant oil and gas pipelines being built from Russia to China?
Todays attempted energy blockade of China is going to fail in every way, with the exception of the theft of Venezuela’s oil by US companies.
The layoffs will be startling in the various oil producing regions of the US as our oil companies start pumping those vast Venezuelan reserves at costs well below what it costs here.
What tariff will Trump levy on his partners in the theft?
trump never lies or is wrong. /sarc. i like your analysis on this. long live pax dumbfuckistan. the real question is when the amerikan nihilist cunts will start voting for peace and prosperity. i guess the kids born today might do that. perhaps the 20 and early 30 somethings don’t like this stupidity if my kids and my fellow college students tell me. democracy works frosty. look in the mirror of your family and neighbors and friends. they are majority nihilist warmongering imperial. just like all of us.
I think that is why I post here!
I can’t say anything remotely questioning Trump in my farming community and portions of my family are close to evangelicals. In their eyes Trump is teflon like the priests that have abused kids sexually for centuries.
Fox & Newscorp propaganda blare from TV sets and US military activities are cheered on like favorite football teams.
Scary times for the thoughtful and objective…
Legal, schmegal. Laws only matter when everyone agrees to be bound by them and there is a method of enforcement, when necessary.
None of that exists presently and hasn’t for some time, if it ever did.
Might makes right is the rule of law, as it has been throughout the history of human civilization.
People should blame this on Putin He is the one who started undercutting the so-called “rule of law” when he arbitrarily took Crimea back in 2014. That showed that this “rule of law” was like the Emperor with no clothes.
FYI: The Biden administration offered a $25 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
Yeah but there were probably all kinds of conditions attached, such as captivity must be non-violent. Otherwise, a small team of trained mercenaries could have snatched him and made a nice profit.
I call BS on your Putin arbitrary Crimea argument. For years every leader of the USSR, The Federation, and Russia since Gorbachev have warned the West and the US not to advance further towards Russia’s sphere of influences by covert and/or overt means.
The US starting with Bush I and continuing through every presidency and Congress have added NATO bases, participated in unsuccessful and successful attempts, meddled in E. European elections in an attempt to install US Empire puppets, etc. Putin was fed up warning the West and the US so he acted. This is the act of regional hegemonies defending their sphere of influence.
Crimea before Khrushchev was always part of Mother Russia. He “transferred” control to Ukraine during the USSR period of Russian history. Since Ukraine was already part of the USSR, it didn’t matter politically, economically or militarily who administered Crimea.
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Totally agree FDR
And wasn’t it our Ambassador George Keenan that warned multiple U.S. presidents to not expand NATO?
“Sphere of influence”? What kind of BS is that? Does Canada have a sphere of influence that stretches down to Mexico or over Alaska? Does China’s sphere of influence cover Vietnam and the rest of southeast Asia?
Russia had a big enough territory to not need any buffer zone protections.
Foolishly, Putin’s adventures into Ukraine have revealed just how much of their supposed military power was pure myth. Same as with Iran, another regional loudmouth. And likely the same with North Korea will be shown when they are finally put to the test.
Regional hegemons have spheres of influence. This not BS. Ask Grecian, Persian, Roman, Egyptian, French, Great Britain, Swedish, Dutch, China, Ottoman, German, Japanese, US, Russian, etc., empires.
Pick up a history book.
Again, does Canada have a SoI? China? Is Russia somehow special compared to other countries?
The Russian elites live in Moscow, which is uncomfortably located in the western part of Russia – further west than parts of Eastern Ukraine….
Then move it to newly unfrozen Siberian land if they want separation form other countries.
“Might makes right is the rule of law, as it has been throughout the history of human civilization.”
If that’s your moral standard, can you tell me if, say, the attack on the beach on Bondi was made “right” because it was executed by might?
You’re stupid as ever.
Perhaps this is part of his strategy to:
Epstein,Bad economy.
It’s more affordable to help people in their own country than to bring them here for help.
Since Fiscal Year 2017, the United States has provided nearly $2.7 billion in total humanitarian, development, economic, and health assistance for the Venezuela regional crisis, including over $2.3 billion in humanitarian assistance and approximately $356 million in development assistance for those in need inside …
Despite that, about 600,000 Venezuelans came to the US.
Large long-term estimates (2015–2024)
🔹 Venezuelan government figures
Never consider ANY Trump action is anything more than personal financial gain – and usually by Whie Collar Crime. (And by any other name.)
Venezuela has teh World’s largest oil reseerves. Trump couldn’t keep his mits off it. So much for democracy and self-determination. Trump has no virtues.
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Update for the people celebrating:
Maduro’s second in command gets to run the country in exchange for oil. Nothing changes except your tax dollars go to them too!
And who might that be, Mr. Creamer? Right now, the US will ‘run’ Venezuela–as it should until proper elections can be held.
I am assuming you will be just as fine with China ‘running’ Taiwan – until “proper” elections can be held in Taiwan?
Posted here as well from a Venezuelan doctor in the United states:
Before there’s an inflammatory post on this matter, please know today is Christmas for Venezuelans!
I don’t expect everyone to agree or understand. Venezuelan’s history is complex and the sequence of events over this 27 year-old tragedy is hard to track.
Many have a strong opinion, despite learning just recently where Venezuela sits on the map.
The vast majority of Venezuelans living on Venezuelan soil and Venezuelans living abroad prayed for this outcome every single day for 27 years. Regardless of their political stance within their country of residence.
This is not about whether Venezuelans support Trump or not. Venezuelans are tired of hearing “the U.S just wants your oil “ as if we didn’t already know this. This comment is laughable and comes accross as ignorant. It comes accross as if Venezuelans are naïve and unaware of the many layers of their own tragedy. So, don’t do it.
Every totalitarian regime is already scraping every single natural resource, without regard for the land, the native tribes, the Amazon, and the Venezuelan people. Pollution, deforestation, and destruction of the Amazon basin are at all times high.
The Orinoco belt is like the hunger games; China, Russia, and Iran have been there for years and they’re not there because they like Venezuelan arepas. They have STOLEN every natural resource! Terrorist cells have settled in, just miles away from U.S soil. The narco-regime gave it all away in order to stay in power. They kidnapped, tortured, and killed innocents. Thousands more are held as political prisoners. Repression has been brutal. They have tarnished our history, created powerful cartels, corrupted our youth, exported criminal organizations, and pushed out millions in a historical walk of shame.
Believe me. We are aware. Absolutely NO ONE in the international community helped. No one. And if the volatility of one country’s leader is what was needed to take out this sociopathic web of parasites, then so be it. Between Putin, Xi Jinping, Khamenei, and Trump… well Trump is the least bad of the bad choices. Venezuela had at least a century of succesful diplomacy and trade with the U.S and this can be slowly restored. Even if it’s an unequal partnership, it’s unlikely to parallel the destruction that China, Russia, and Iran are executing on our land.
So don’t try to educate us. We can also do math and know our history well.
We’re good 🙏
Cheers. 🥂 🇻🇪
Interesting assertions. Can you provide any verfiable facts supporting your claims?
Probably authored by a Fox related propaganda bot.
Cheers!
Is that the best you can do? It’s sad. Instead of feeble assertions, maybe provide some facts that contradict a situation of crisis and corruption.
It doesn’t fit their mostly false narrative on so many things.
Rule 1. America is always the bad guy
Rule 2. America is the only country hunting for natural resouces.
Rule 3. Every other country in the world is always doing good things for their countrymen
Rule 4. Every other country in the world is not trying to harm America
Rule 5. When that fails blame Fox News
Rule 6. When all else fails, blame the Jews
Rule 7: Rule 6 confirms tribal narcissism and an inflated sense of importance.
Do you know how to use Google or an AI?
Google María Corina Machado, a Venezuelan opposition leader, who was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.
You might begin here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Corina_Machado
The internet has no page on my grandfather, therefore he didn’t exist, right?
You can find tons of pages on the internet about Venezuela and Maduro and Chavez, if you search. But that takes time, and an open mind, to accept realities not fitting narratives. So instead you throw a wrench in the machine by asking the other party to do days-long research, while he has already hands-on and lived experience. When the USSR collapsed, I personally believed 100% BOTH those who were happy and those who were not happy. Because I recognize that regime changes upset things that have been good to some people and bad to some others.
I didn’t ask anyone to give me “verifiable facts”, because anyone from the former USSR would have told me “why don’t you come over here and live it yourself you fat lazy inexperienced immature and badly educated arrogant moron“.
I’m 58 and I can’t find on the internet major facts that I, and the whole society around me, experienced. Facts based on the then laws, regulations, etc., hugely affecting the entire society or large industrial sectors. Historical facts that you can only find if you spend months researching paper newspapers in other countries that are only available in local libraries and were never digitized (despite Google’s efforts, which are still ongoing and one day they may reach 1-2% of records).
Your generation only knows about 2-3% of history, in Powerpoint-like format, because you only rely on the internet.
Yep, that’s the voice of the oligarchy that raped Venezuela for decades, eager to do it again, thanks to their old sugar daddy.
Um the raping has been going on since the beginning, when Venezuela was a Spanish colony.
Here’s some recent history, from Wikipedia:
The 1973 Venezuelan presidential election of Carlos Andrés Pérez coincided with an oil crisis, in which Venezuela’s income exploded as oil prices soared; oil industries were nationalized in 1976. This led to massive increases in public spending, but also increases in external debts, until the collapse of oil prices during the 1980s crippled the economy. As the government started to devalue the currency in 1983 to face its financial obligations, standards of living fell dramatically. Failed economic policies and increasing corruption in government led to rising poverty and crime, worsening social indicators, and increased political instability.
Isn’t socialism great?
Venezuela was decidedly capitalist up until Chavez took over. The path to poverty doesn’t really lie in socialism or capitalism, but in corruption. And corruption is the result of a weak, both in courage and intellect, population. The USA is headed that way quickly. Far quicker than I ever imagined.
Don’t try to educate the American or European Trust-Fund Left. They have cheered for Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro, Chavez, and if you dig deeper, they once considered Margaret Sanger’s eugenics “a progressive movement”, and they only stopped after Joseph Goebbels called her a “hero of National Socialism”.
If Obama had taken out Maduro, they would be singing a completely different song.
Thank you Lefteris
Where is the original source link?
Great! A single doctor is (allegedly) happy! That eliminates the need for Congress to be involved in any war decisions. Let’s see if we can get some canadian doctor to quote and invade Canada!
Perfect thank you for that clarification and viewpoint. Those with terminal TDS don’t like facts. How it turns out in the end will be interesting. Didn’t Venuzala appropriate oil assests from us oil companies when the nationalized the oil industry? I am not s big Trump fan but if he found a cure for cancer but had the side effect of causing dandruff the headlines would read TRUMP CAUSES DANDRUFF.
It is dangerous to be an enemy of the United States, but fatal to be its friend.
Have you ever heard of Ukraine?
Yeah, but is he a Doctor/Doctor or Dentist/Doctor???? I will believe it when I hear it from a Custodian, Carpenter, or School Teacher.
I will continue to survey my Boomer Algorithm assigned to me for the Truth.
Cheers
Reports of attacks on Putin’s residence and attacks inside Russia are real but im starting to think this is the US and Ukraine doing this together.
Trump is not pleased at all with Putin these days and reports of Putin’s having to put down domestic rebellions are real.
Iran is also in trouble.
The reports are real. The actual attacks probably not.
Nice to know the U.S. plans to rebuild oil infrastructure in Venezuela. I presume U.S. taxpayer money will be involved.
How about rebuilding oil infrastructure in the U.S.? Couldn’t we use more refinery capacity and reliability?
Seed funds yes, but Trump would likely tariff the oil to recover the US cost.
IOW, “the oil will pay for the war and occupation”? Now, where have I heard that before?!
I wish American politicians could be arrested with the same dispatch.
Disgusting. Gunboat diplomacy at its worst. I wonder how the millions of heavily armed peasants will react to The Great White Father deciding he is their new ruler, overthrowing the government they elected.
Under Chavez, Venezuela had one of the highest standards of living in South America. The nerve of Chavez using Venezuela’s oil wealth to benefit his people, not US multinationals. Through lawfare the US stole their oil company Citgo, through sanctions we impoverished the country, now we want full control of their reserves.
At best the US is on its way to being an international pariah, at worst we may face an armed insurgency with international support.
History will regard Trump as the demented war criminal who hastened the demise of the American empire.
<<heavily armed peasants>>
You mean the drug gangs? They don’t care either way.
The ordinary population in the villages are not armed at all.
There used to be lots of European immigrants in Venezuela once (before Chavez), working & lower middle class, and the last who reminded me what had started happening during the latest regimes, was a Greek family asking their friends and relatives in 2009 on facebook, all of a sudden after years of ordinary posts, to urgently send them money to go back to Greece.
Chavez policies destroyed much of the private sector, and they were dependent only on the oil price to stay afloat. You can make thousands of products from oil, but with a private sector nationalized and destroyed, you can’t make anything.
I don’t agree with the US invading other countries, but the Left all of a sudden trying to re-write history again, as they tried after supporting Pol Pot for years, is turning again into a clown show.
If you think US military / corporate / think tank destabilization and rule will benefit the Venezuelan people you have not been paying attention to recent history. Study recent examples of Russia, Ukraine, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Syria.
Be careful what you wish for. Your troubles are only beginning.
“…Under Chavez, Venezuela had one of the highest standards of living in South America….”
This is true, but equality and social programs do not allow competition. Politics was dominated by socialists. As challenges arose, Chavez reacted. The result
‘The profits of the oil industry were lost to “social engineering” and corruption, instead of investments needed to maintain oil production.’
Chavez was dead before the economy failed, but he had set failure in motion.
Well said.
—Yemen—1,000+ strikes*
—Somalia—140+ strikes, 1 ground raid**
—Syria—78+ strikes, 3 ground raids***
—Iran—3 B-2 strikes
—Iraq—1 strike
—Nigeria—1 set of TLAM strikes
—Caribbean—11 strikes
—Eastern Pacific—20 strikes
—Venezuela—ongoing strikes
Nobel Peace Prize material
Was that Trump or Obama? It is a lot closer than people here think.
Down vote away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What about Canada?
Insurgency upcoming. Expect a long campaign protecting oil interests.
Are there riots or celebrations in the streets of Venezuela?
I was thinking the same thing. If the Venezuela people are happy and the flow of drugs is at least reduced coming into America I will feel much better about it
Downvote away
Except there never was a flow of drugs from Venezuela. You’re confusing them with the country on your border, that houses all the smuggling cartels; Mexico. Just in case this was an honest mistake and not just an attempt to make this invasion look justitied by anything other than it being about oil and a distraction from Epstein.
You are sure of that. Never a flow of drugs out of Venezuela? I find that hard to believe .
We might be the biggest market for drugs why would they not want to send it to their possibly biggest market & profit margin?
I will not claim “zero drugs from Venezuela”. But I do believe that whatever drugs may have come from there, it’s very little compared to what enters the USA from Mexico, and perhaps Columbia. I don’t know where the USA gets its designer drugs from, but I do know the Netherlands produces tons of it. The Middle East apparenetly gets it from Syria. If drugs are the main concern, I don’t think Venezuela is your biggest, or even a big, problem.
Mexico the leader for sure. From China
Show me any serious State Dept report from a few years ago or even now saying that Venezuela is the source of those drugs.
you mean the WMD state department ?
As Neil pointed out, Mexico the leader .
All I am saying is you can’t tell me drugs from Venezuela are not coming into America.
I know Venezuela is a sensitive topic for you whiraway. I am not bringing that up to justify what just happened.
Actually, I asked the question already certain of the answer. Why? As a further indication of mindless bias that does not examine the facts, or know the history. Frankly, I expected more down votes, although the bulk of other comments are indicative.
less drugs means much stronger strains will be smuggled in. how fentanyl came about. the war on drugs just means harder and more powerful drugs. don’t you understand how smuggling drugs works. if it’s harder to smuggle, the smaller the quantity which means more powerful. hundreds of thousands of dead idiots from fentanyl BECAUSE OF THE WAR ON DRUGS AND SLOWING SMUGGLING. AMERIKANS DEMAND TO SUICIDE THEMSELVES SLOWLY OR QUICKLY.
The NY Post has pictures of crowds that look to be total about 100 people. Astroturf, as they say.
From a Venezuelan doctor on my wife’s facebook feed:
Before there’s an inflammatory post on this matter, please know today is Christmas for Venezuelans!
I don’t expect everyone to agree or understand. Venezuelan’s history is complex and the sequence of events over this 27 year-old tragedy is hard to track.
Many have a strong opinion, despite learning just recently where Venezuela sits on the map.
The vast majority of Venezuelans living on Venezuelan soil and Venezuelans living abroad prayed for this outcome every single day for 27 years. Regardless of their political stance within their country of residence.
This is not about whether Venezuelans support Trump or not. Venezuelans are tired of hearing “the U.S just wants your oil “ as if we didn’t already know this. This comment is laughable and comes accross as ignorant. It comes accross as if Venezuelans are naïve and unaware of the many layers of their own tragedy. So, don’t do it.
Every totalitarian regime is already scraping every single natural resource, without regard for the land, the native tribes, the Amazon, and the Venezuelan people. Pollution, deforestation, and destruction of the Amazon basin are at all times high.
The Orinoco belt is like the hunger games; China, Russia, and Iran have been there for years and they’re not there because they like Venezuelan arepas. They have STOLEN every natural resource! Terrorist cells have settled in, just miles away from U.S soil. The narco-regime gave it all away in order to stay in power. They kidnapped, tortured, and killed innocents. Thousands more are held as political prisoners. Repression has been brutal. They have tarnished our history, created powerful cartels, corrupted our youth, exported criminal organizations, and pushed out millions in a historical walk of shame.
Believe me. We are aware. Absolutely NO ONE in the international community helped. No one. And if the volatility of one country’s leader is what was needed to take out this sociopathic web of parasites, then so be it. Between Putin, Xi Jinping, Khamenei, and Trump… well Trump is the least bad of the bad choices. Venezuela had at least a century of succesful diplomacy and trade with the U.S and this can be slowly restored. Even if it’s an unequal partnership, it’s unlikely to parallel the destruction that China, Russia, and Iran are executing on our land.
So don’t try to educate us. We can also do math and know our history well.
We’re good 🙏
Cheers. 🥂 🇻🇪
Thank you for posting.
Lol I don’t believe that’s legit for an instant, use your brain
close to USA ?????? get a globe.
There are in the streets of florida and Miami, which has a large expatriate Venezuelan population. Saw this on TV this morning.
can you spell “selection bias”?
Living in Florida I know quite a few Venezuelan refugees / immigrants. All have family still there and talk about how horrible their living conditions have been under Maduro (we all read about eating zoo animals). They have to send money via Bitcoin to avoid it being seized by the government.
I texted a couple of them and they are ecstatic about the regime change and are hopeful for the future (Venezuela was in fact a very nice place in the 80s and 90s when oil was flowing).
This can be a big win for the US if the next government in Venezuela is an improvement.
Wasn’t Venezuela once the crown jewel of Latin America?
You are getting downvotes because people here have an agenda, and its based on their opinions not the facts on the ground.
Your first 2 paragraphs are 100% correct.
Your last sentence maybe they are just voting on that? Because that is your opinion.
I happen to agree with it. I am just not sure Trumps way of going about this was the right way.
Venezuela was the crown jewel of Latin America and, under Chavez, lifted millions out of poverty, until the US slapped severe sanctions on the country.
Depends on how far back you look. In the early/mid 20th century, I think it was Argentina.
Until they ran out of oil money.
ran out because ?
thank you for the correction
Both Venezuela and Argentina had their economies crippled by US sanctions or loan sharking that led to oil production shut downs. Argentina has recently gotten its shit together with the help of the Chinese and now rump is trying to muscle his way in.
In reality there is a glut of oil production going on with all of the discoveries and improved drilling technology (developed by the US).
Argentina is a stunningly beautiful country with a laid back and somewhat lazy population that loves to party.
You mean how hard life is under US sanctions.
I believe your claims in the first two paragraphs. I do not think that warrants a president attacking for no valid security reason without congressional approvement.
What retards downvote that statement.
If capturing Maduro was indeed to stop his sale of drugs, it is just as likely that Trump is taking over his drug cartel?
Trump just pardoned the Honduran President that was convicted of running a drug cartel that imported tons of cocaine into the US. Trump now hails him as a hero and friend. Pretty easy to connect the dots that the Honduran cartels distribution network is alive and ready to do Trump family business.
We have 1,000 FBI agents employed to redact all references to Trump in the Epstein criminal cover-up. Congress is complicit and enabling the obstruction of justice.
Trump is a convicted Felon, he is a criminal and admitted pedophile. Trump is a compulsive liar. Why wouldn’t he use his office to establish leadership of the largest and most consolidated drug cartel on the globe?
Who does Trump work for?
we have precedent. amerika and UK waged 2 opium wars in china to profit off of being drug dealers. only uneducated think that the USA government hasn’t been drug dealers big time. trump is following a very old game plan.
Hopping he pulls an Epstein (blink)…. save a lot of money and time..
So you’re wishing (hoping) for the death (natural or otherwise) of a sitting POTUS? Just asking for clarity…
I think he meent Maduro, not Trump. But it’s not unambiguous.
Not until after he spills the beans and the trump family takes over his cartel…
How long will this keep US minds off inflation, housing, deportations, food, and jobs?
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We are going below $2 a gallon soon on average. In California we are at $3/gallon in some places.
I didn’t vote for Trump but the deportations were needed.
The message being sent to potential immigrants is clear: Do not enter. This goes for anyone on a work visa or any other visa. This alone with bring down the price of everything very quickly.
I was in Amarillo Texas a few days ago on my drive to Colorado to go skiing. Price for regular was 1.85. Most of the rest of the surrounding areas in Texas was barely over $2.
If your local gas prices are over 3 it’s all due to state taxes.
correct. And local… County by County in NY has different prices because the county taxes are all different. Some more some less
I could always make it in and out of – in the NY Finger Lakes area with a fill up in Geneva, Ohio.
Dude love it there. Been up there 5 of the last 7 years all around Cayuga county and the wine trail.
Ever been to Skaneattles? One of the nicest areas in all of NYS
Yep. I realize this. The bottom line is gas is going to get even cheaper.
Great. Lets invade Saudi Arabia for their oil and make gas even cheaper!
why not just kill half the people on planet earth to decrease demand for energy and really make life cheap.
This is part of a forming military blockade of China and Russia from access to energy and the global banking system. A declaration of war under international law.
Do not be surprised if China and/or Russia take action against the US or one of its allies in retaliation.
For Trump it is all about creating distractions and entertaining fireworks for his minions. But what happens if China and Russia retaliate? Only a few weeks ago Putin and Xi stood on either side of Maduro and promised to defend Venezuela from Trumps aggression.
The world holds its breath as hostage…
“Defend Venezuela”? Too late, amigo. Drugs into US decrease. US oil companies come in and fix oil industry which enriches Venezuela and the US oil companies. China, Cuba, and NK lose access to cheap oil. Russia revenues decrease.
I like it.
And when the bombs start landing in your back yard? What then?
I hate to break it to you Frosty but I upvoted you.
What he said is just another equivalent of virtue signaling from a far.
No problem, I give you credit where credit is due as well.
I have seen some great posts by you and we agree on some things, disagree on others. Humans are like that.
😉
Appreciate that. Be well. Happy New Year
PS: You still haven’t answered by question on who Trump works for LOL…………just ignore that last comment
TRUMP WORKS FOR ONE THING. TO BE IN HEADLINES EVERY DAY. SINCE AT LEAST THE 1970s. he’s the perfect nihilist. for a nihilist empire.
Yeah, I remember all the way back then. Can’t disagree with you then or now.
To be honest, I do not know the answer. There are many possibilities. Some high probabilities…
It seems to be for whoever will pay him, protect him and keep him in the news.
Serial grifters and malignant narcissists are like that, they bounce from one supporter to another like those little steel balls in a pinball machine.
Enjoy!
higher drug prices due to less supply means deadlier drugs come in. why fentanyl occurred. the people of USA demand drugs to kill themselves either slowly or quickly. if you cut supply the drugs become deadlier. simple observation of human history. you people are morons who think cutting off supply is gonna help. our people are depressed assholes who want to kill themselves.
Neither of those 2 countries is going to do anything.
Russia just realized the US can over throw a country in a couple months with no casualties while they are bogged down for years in Ukraine.
China is definitely not stupid and in fact is pragmatic about being business oriented. Getting oil flowing (Venezuela, Iran etc) is good for all developed nations. They also will do nothing.
It is precisely because Putin and Xi was standing next to Maduro that this was done. Russia is still a gas station masking as a country.
I wouldn’t want to be in Putin’s shoes after today.
Yeah, those nuclear weapons are such trivia, aren’t they?
Bingo!
At some point bullies and their sycophants get kicked in the nuts!
I’m not a fan of making the US a target or international pariah.
well 9.11.01 was 100% blowback. regardless of the fact that the Cheney administration looked the other way when the plan was being carried out since august 2001. so we have been targeted. i knew dozens of childhood pals who croaked by fire or jumping that day from cantor. but alas, amerika was the bully and all those poor assholes voted for the never ending wars which came back on their lives. shit happens. actions have reactions. mike tyson explains it best.
Only the uninformed jumped from Cantor. The leadership was “out sick” or taking their kids out of the city.
Russia would be devastated to a far greater degree than the US were they to shoot off any nukes. And as long as Putin remained alive, he would not be able to come out of his deep hole bunker.
The threat of using nuke weapons against the USA is an empty one.
great logic. so the nukes that land on your city would be less than the nukes that land on 10x the same size cities in russia. hat tip for idiot thinking.
Un huh. Were you also one those who kept touting the same threat after we bombed Iran? Russia and China did nothing then. They are unlikely to do anything now. Russia is distracted by Ukraine (which is why Trump should keep funding their battle) and China has scores of its own problems in its home region..
9.11.01 was blowback from actions decades before.
On January First 2026 Chinese export sanctions went into effect that ban all shipments of strategic metals out of the country and specifically to any US defense contractor or supplier.
Attacking defenseless nations is a virtue with you. Do you bash little old ladies in the head because you want to take their purse?
If not, please explain why you don’t in the context of Trumps capture of the leadership of a sovereign nation and the theft of its resources.
Thanks in advance.
Accuse your enemy of what you are guilty of. The US and NATO countries are terrorist states and are a threat to world peace. The US is spiraling towards a fascist authoritarian state and the mindless rubes chant USA, USA, and cheer it on.
Who was the last US president not to be a threat to world peace. Think carefully.
Reagan?
Wrong, think about Nicaragua, Guatemala and how we bombed them into the Stone Age. Reagan and Ollie North were trafficking guns and drugs as part of the overthrow as I recall.
True. And with a little quid pro quo( and maybe a little taking some off the top from Barry Seal) to Mena Arkansas and the Dixie Mafia
It’s why the Clintons and the Bush Sr & Jr are and have to remain friends
Can you imagine the dirty deeds those 3 have on each other?
Harding – Coolidge
Harry Truman
Seriously though. How exactly does Trump plan to run the country? Maduro made sure the peasants were well armed.
Bring back the elected leader….I think she is in Sweden or one of those Norwegian countries…
By “Norwegian” you probably mean “Scandinavian” or perhaps “Nordic”. Norway is a country in both of those regions.
Yeah, one of those USA countries just attacked her homeland in an effort to liberate the people, sorry oil not people. My typo
Are you really that ignorant ‘Ken’?
I did not know that Norway had more than one country
Pay the military to follow American orders.
Mercenaries are notoriously unreliable. Machiavelli wrote a few great charters on them in Il Principe.
I voz only following ze orders.
The vast majority of Venezuelan’s were hungry and impoverished. They did not support Maduro.
Especially how do they rule without boots on the ground. They are going to try and rule a country with “work from home”.
If I had a shop I would be buying a big metal door for night time.
ha ha ha
Anyone who was against this action must not realize Maduro has been on the capture list of the DoJ since 2020 when he overturned a fair election and seized all land. It was under the Biden administration that some of this happen. Biden refused to do anything about it. I think it is funny that Maduro got overthrown literally hours after meeting with the Chinese government. Truthfully, stopping the drug trade is good for central and north America and Venezuela’s neighbors. Make no mistake that any country leader on the DoJ list may be next.
Addendum: The meeting with Putin in Alaska might have been a trial run for capturing him at the next meeting. I don’t think he’s ever going to come on U.S. soil again after what happen.
I’m proud of Trump for making this call. Pacifism never works against autocrats. I would be even prouder if the Kremlin is next.
Except that 1) Maduro did not take US property and 2) Venezuela is NOT the drug running country threatening the US.
By any measure, we should take over Mexico before anyone else.
…and yes, this is fascist in that Trump used the US military to take over another country and then give their oil reserves to private corporations. Textbook definition.
When the US took over Iraq, which oil companies got oil access? Answer below:
ExxonMobil United States Secured contracts for oil field development
BP United Kingdom Developed the Rumaila oil field
Royal Dutch Shell Netherlands Developed the Majnoon oil field
Chevron United States Engaged in various oil exploration activities
Total Energies France Involved in oil production contracts
Don’t forget Dick Chaney’s Halliburton getting the infrastructure contracts.
cheney got rich on all sides of that bullshit. RIP beelzebub
Agreed, and it was wrong then too
Who is running these fields now?
Iran next.
By then Putin will have gotten the message loud and clear and we’ll get an end to that war with Ukraine be split up.
Because buying off a few Venezuelan generals is just like forcing the most heavily armed nuclear country on earth to bend to our will. lol
Ha ha ha!
So did you vote for, or against more involvement in foreign wars? Or even starting a few?
This is what the evangelicals voted for! Lots of death and oil! We see who you really worship!
Not sure I know any evangelicals that voted for Trump. I just voted for the best option that was presented to us by the two ruling parties!
Come on, all you alleged “Christians” voted for your Orange Jesus. Maybe you should get reaquainted with the First Commandment.
Does evangelist = alleged “Christians” ?
I guess you can be judge of the appropriate beliefs.
christians jews and muslims are all full of shit. they all love warfare and money and killing anyone who doesn’t worship their 3 branches of the same abrahamic batshit crazy religions.
Manuel Noriega II.
Rinse & Repeat
So you’re saying that Maduro has lost his usefulness to the US and now it’s time to get rid of him?
No, I am saying the US pretext for invading and overthrowing Noriega was drugs, restoring democracy, protecting US citizens from harm and other propaganda BS similar to but not identical to Maduro and Venezuela.
Noriega had fallen out of favor with the US because he decided to not have as close a relationship with the US as he had earlier as their puppet so Bush I arbitrarily invaded Panama, arrested and kidnapped to the US for trial on drug charges, etc.
Noriega and the Panamanian Congress had also declared war on the US before the US invasion due to an earlier coup attempt on Noriega’s presidency. This was the height of stupidity by their Congress and Noriega.
Remember America first patriots! Every penny of your hard won tax dollars are needed more by Venezuela! MAGA!!!
Don’t forget argentina! They need you to cough up too!
Way to go, yet again, Mish – with the patrial truth in your teaser/headline on thid one.
Here is the rest of the story:
President Trump said the U.S. is going to run Venezuela until there can be “a safe, proper and judicious transition” following the U.S. military operation that captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife early Saturday morning.
“We can’t take a chance that somebody else takes over Venezuela that doesn’t have the good of the Venezuelan people in mind,” Trump said, speaking to reporters at his Mar-a-Lago club. “We’re not going to let that happen.”
And how are we doing that with no control over the nation at the moment? Do you just believe anything he says without question? (The answer is yes)
And you fall for this gibberish?
Venezuela can have elections as long as America can overturn the results.
Easy. Just copy the great work in Irak and Afghanistan. Oh, wait…
Are we witnessing the formation of the Trump family drug cartel?
Trump just pardoned and endorsed the convicted Honduran cocaine drug lord with an established distribution network and now captured his largest potential competitor.
What else should we expect from the pedophile in chief?
More lies and abuse of power?
Anything to enrich the Trump family empire and its crony friends.
Just as much money in becoming the next Oil baron and less risk.
Or, both?
Trump is pretty much the definition of exploitation…
The biggest questions I have revolve around the matter of control. Was there internal Venezuelan cooperation with U.S. forces to facilitate his capture, and if so who really has control now? We don’t have evidence yet suggesting that DJT can follow through on his claim that we’re going to be running things in Venezuela.
My biggest fear is that the neocons will use this to tee up a second regime change operation in Iran which brings about a major regional war which could go nuclear when Israel is defeated and U.S. bases are destroyed. The gates of hell are opening up.
The CIA probably paid off key members of the military. I don’t expect it to work as well in Iran.
I agree. Iran seems much more ideologically driven, even if that is diminishing. That should make mere bribery harder, right?
Iran is most definitely next. That’s why the unrest is ramping up.
Um, Yemen is already underway–Saudi Arabia being a stand-in.
Any unrest in Iran has been co-opted by CIA-Mossad agents and is being blown way out of proportion by the pro Israel media to prep Americans to support war against Iran. I’d say “don’t fall for it”, but it looks like you already did.
So are you saying this is the beginnings of a 666 moment?
I don’t see why not. It’s DJT’s luggage combination, and he should start packing.
What happens if the legal case against Maduro falls flat?
“Legal case”. lol They’ll pick the jurisdiction, the judge and the jury.
Amen to that. I don’t see an administration that acts on judicial orders here.
Same thing that happened to Saddam Hussein and Epstein. This is what winning feels like!
He’ll be let go and returned to Venezuela. Of course by then someone else is going to be in charge who won’t be friendly to Maduro so when he returns home he’ll likely be killed or jailed there.
Legal? [lol]