Posted on 01/05/2026 6:27:23 PM PST by V_TWIN
The Bolivarian regime seems to be eating itself, now.
Monday night erupted in heavy firefights in Caracas, more specifically in areas of Miraflores, where the presidential palace is located.
This comes a mere hours after the interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, was formally sworn in.
Rumors have been circulating that Maduro’s right-hand man, Diosdado Cabello, was planning a coup d’état against Rodríguez.
Apparently, her first decisions were not to the liking of the generals of the highly ideological Bolivarian Armed Forces of Venezuela.
Diosdado controls many of the ‘colectivos of Venezuela’, far-left, heavily armed paramilitary groups operating independently of the Government.
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Gunfire! Quick run and open the windows! (Sounds like a kid drumming on Tupperware in the background.)
Yes.
And we will back whatever side in that war aligns best with American interests.
If we have any sense at all, that backing will not include American troops based in Venezuela, at least not for anything other than raiding parties which leave immediately afterwards.
Venezuelans must fight their own civil war.
Some cautionary notes:
There are a lot of ways this can still go wrong, and some things will go wrong. What matters is whether we can correct our mistakes quickly enough.
Random gunfire, that somehow could not be pointed at helicopters?
Traitors ordered them not to fire at the helicopters. And so they were able to land. In fact they would never have dared it otherwise against shoulder mounted Stinger types.
Firing on their own drones and their own equipment was last report I got. Probably skiddish after the other night.
But nothing confirmed yet
So-—Disodado will be shot dead, soon. A coup from him— already anticipated. People know his people and.... where he is, so he should have helped the US.
Do you mean, Pinochet?
I’d appreciate an accounting of all of the Congress Critters taking Venezuelan money.
Boom, boom, boom.... from the big junks in their trunks Boomer Brigado. Tanko— humano, the fat as hell tank sistahood. Red shirts size XXXXL mas gordo.
Photo of “heavy” combat troop invasion....
“That’s the storage building for the Ozempic dead ahead. Protect your ears as I shoot a rocket propelled projectile at the lock. Then move in.”
I just saw a clip of a demonstration where some idiot guy in a dress was yelling, “¡La lucha sigue!”
I have feelilng his ‘lucha’ isn’t going to last very long.
Overall odds:
The newly sworn in prez will greet the Chinese tankers due to dock this week and load up with oil. No one will dare stop them.
Factoid, Venezuela’s oil output has risen every year of the past 4 post Covid, with Chevron an insignificant part of the total. Point being, there is no decrepit infrastructure. They are flowing more oil than they did 4 yrs ago.
They flow much less than 2010, because the easy oil is going empty. The difficult oil . . . Rosneft and PetroChina have not bothered with because 1) it is not clearly there, the huge increase in claimed reserves was by Chavez and 2) their 960K bpd flow is essentially comfortable.
Venezuela proven reserves 2007 were 99 billion barrels. Then 2009 — 172, 2011 — 211, 2012 — 297. Note there was no exploration budget. No announced discoveries. Chavez was dying of cancer, the GFC was encouraging all sorts of game playing globally and Chavez redefined things to attract more Russia and Chinese support, whether the oil was there or not.
I grimly joked yesterday, would the violent international drug and human trafficking ganglords say “Well, we had a good run. It’s over. That’s the way it goes.”
Agree. Too much bandwidth usage to post it here, though.(Kidding).
Pam Bondi will do it if allowed 6 months of redaction work first.
Here’s another approach:
List all the ones not taking the money.
Result: Senator John Fetterman.
Power vacuum, many factions held back by a dictator now removed, not surprising
They won’t get fooled again. LOL
They seem to be very well-fed for Venezuelans.
Maybe Trey Gowdy can run an effective investigation of Congressional corruption?
So in this left vs right which are the narco-terrorists and which are the constitutional democrats?
Looks like they are the barricade.
The sad one to me along with Trey in Congress was the night a few years ago where Dan Bongino spent a couple of hours minus commercials on the radio, detailing federal officials’ specific violated laws (subsections included) in the Clinton and Obama cases.
A caller asked: “But are there actually going to be any people going to prison for those violations?”
Pause. Longer pause.
“No. I have to be honest. No.” He sounded so sad.
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