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Nicolas Maduro live updates: Venezuelans celebrate dictator’s capture in jubilant photos
nypost.com ^ | Jan. 3, 2026 | Post Staff Report

Posted on 01/03/2026 6:06:18 AM PST by V_TWIN

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Venezuelans celebrate after US President Donald Trump announced that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro had been captured and flown out of the country.

President Trump offered and advance warning to Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro months before the US captured him and his wife.

“He doesn’t want to f--k around with the United States," the president said in an October press conference.

The Official White House Rapid Response account resurfaced the clip Saturday morning -- just hours after handing down a litany of charges against the embattled dictator and his wife.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: astroturf; colorevolution; democratshasthesads; dicolasmanuro; maduro; manuro; messagetomadmullahs; narcoterrorism; regimechange; trendearagua; venezuela; vladimirpadrinolopez
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To: V_TWIN

How many illegals could have been rounded up with the funds that were used for this operation? How many deep staters stifling Trump could have been arrested?


21 posted on 01/03/2026 6:31:54 AM PST by nonliberal (Russia is not my enemy.)
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To: Mark17

huh?


22 posted on 01/03/2026 6:35:20 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: janetjanet998

President Trump was just on Fox News and said an exact copy of Maduros house was built so they could practice the breach protocols.......this is what REAL American armed forces looks like......not a bunch of men in dresses wearing high heels lipstick.


23 posted on 01/03/2026 6:35:35 AM PST by V_TWIN (America........so great even the people that hate it won't leave)
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To: V_TWIN
It's pretty amazing that Trump and Hegseth were able to pull this off with no leaks from the Pentagon. Democrat senators hardest hit.

It looks like they've identified who's trustworthy and who's not.

24 posted on 01/03/2026 6:36:30 AM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

“no leaks from the Pentagon”

Remember a while back the media left the Pentagon in protest because PETE wanted more control over them?

That fixed the leaks and good riddance I say.

They did us all a favor by throwing their little temper tantrum.


25 posted on 01/03/2026 6:39:58 AM PST by V_TWIN (America........so great even the people that hate it won't leave)
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

“Democrat senators hardest hit.”

AND the weasel that is rand paul......I really despise that little shit.


26 posted on 01/03/2026 6:41:23 AM PST by V_TWIN (America........so great even the people that hate it won't leave)
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To: cgbg

So did the whole world.

Soon the whole world will know he stole the 2020 US election too.

FAFO. This is why the Israeli released from Hamas said their treatment of him totally changed when Trump was elected. Everybody knows who means what they say and who is just BS-ing.


27 posted on 01/03/2026 6:42:12 AM PST by butterdezillion
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To: V_TWIN

what’s amazing to me is that exactly one year ago today...
Joe Biden was leading the USA
Nicolas Maduro was leading Venezuela

and today they are both gone and no longer subjecting the citizens of the two countries to their wicked rule


28 posted on 01/03/2026 6:44:29 AM PST by ChronicMA
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To: nonliberal

Every operation has its own specific issues—they are not interchangeable.

I am very encouraged about this news—the meta issue is it proves the administration can decisively act with operational security despite all the hostile forces (internal and external) arrayed against it.


29 posted on 01/03/2026 6:46:00 AM PST by cgbg ("Your identity is how power treats you.")
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To: V_TWIN

What happens to all the drug dealers that Biden autopen pardoned. Do they get rearrested to serve out their sentences?


30 posted on 01/03/2026 6:46:13 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: ChronicMA

And I lost a step brother to fentanyl before it was realized how absolutely deadly it was so I couldn’t give 2 shits about technicalities and legalities.

I don’t want to hear that crap.


31 posted on 01/03/2026 6:47:19 AM PST by V_TWIN (America........so great even the people that hate it won't leave)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
from the FRchives:

32 posted on 01/03/2026 6:48:33 AM PST by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: ChronicMA

I haven’t seen who is running Venezuela now.


33 posted on 01/03/2026 6:49:09 AM PST by moviefan8
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To: V_TWIN

Great. Now we can get our hands on the GOLD 🥳🥳


34 posted on 01/03/2026 6:49:15 AM PST by yelostar (The media exists to present narratives, not necessarily truth)
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To: V_TWIN

Does anyone from Massholeachusetts remember a guy called Joe Kennedy and his Call Joe for Oil campaign? He touted getting the oil from “Our Friends in Venezuela”.

https://wbsm.com/massachusetts-joe-4-oil/


35 posted on 01/03/2026 6:51:19 AM PST by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: V_TWIN

Now the question becomes: “And then what happens?”

Maduro has thoroughly packed the Venezuelan government with his supporters and fellow travelers, both domestic and foreign. They likely will not cede power, either by appointment or election.

There are Cubans, Russians, likely Chinese, you name it.


36 posted on 01/03/2026 6:52:24 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Stare too long into the dachshund and the dachshund stares back.")
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To: dforest

I wish some countries would look at our constitution and adopt it.

Our constitution should’ve been copied by many countries.
Maybe there’s still hope.


37 posted on 01/03/2026 6:52:40 AM PST by missthethunder (Since the 1980 Rona Barrett interview. IYKYK. )
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To: V_TWIN
I am waiting for the judges, who are inclined to favor the deep state, to declare Trump's actions illegal and order him to return the dictator Maduro to Miraflores.
38 posted on 01/03/2026 6:53:52 AM PST by californian by choice (Who are those who believe in science?)
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To: cgbg

But there are much bigger threats in the US. Who is a bigger threat to your freedom? Nicholas Maduro or Nancy Pelosi?


39 posted on 01/03/2026 6:56:20 AM PST by nonliberal (Russia is not my enemy.)
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To: huldah1776
Ah, Venezuelans in FLORIDA. Will they be going home now?

I worked with a Venezuelan that fled to the SE of the US when Chavez came to power. I suspect by now he and his wife are US citizens.

40 posted on 01/03/2026 6:56:36 AM PST by EVO X ( )
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