Posted on 02/08/2026 4:58:53 AM PST by MtnClimber
Another sterling week for the Trump administration, another interval of agony for his opponents.
The attention of those less politically minded is focused on the disappearance of Savannah Guthrie’s mother, Nancy -- always fodder for the would-be Colombos and Miss Marples -- and the Olympics. Yet this week saw some victories for the administration along with some serious unfinished business.
The ousted dictator Nicolás Maduro seems isolated, depressed, and devoid of funds sufficient to hire teams of lawyers to defend him. Any claims he might have for immunity seem destined to fail. The evidence establishes he was born in Colombia; his claim falls because only a native Venezuelan is entitled to hold the office of president. Without his presence and with the active engagement of the U.S., the Venezuelan economy appears to be rapidly coming back to life. Without the assets looted from there and used to sustain the neighboring tyrants of Cuba, that country is teetering rapidly to an end. It is out of fuel, electricity, medicine, and food. American flags have been seen flying over some of the dilapidated buildings which remain after decades of misrule. I can’t imagine it will last much longer, and I expect there will be many exiles from there, willing to return and rebuild the island once the thieves are out of office.
The fall of Maduro has implications outside of this hemisphere. There is evidence that Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchez, whose family and administration are demonstrably corrupt, and his predecessor Jose Zapatero have been linked to Venezuelan corruption. Faced with increased unpopularity among Spaniards, Sanchez plans to regularize 500,000 invaders and give them residence rights for one year. European leaders, already faced with the impossible burden of vast numbers of Third-World immigrants, correctly fear the impact on the Schengen agreement
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The world certainly is full of crooked leaders.
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Exiles return and rebuild. How? What government allows/encourages that? Thieves out of office. What happens to them and their cohorts?
Very complicated.
“willing to return and rebuild the island”
Is AI that stupid or do people write this?
At first I thought maybe it was referring to Cuba. My best guess is that “island” was in an earlier draft and did reference Cuba, and the author overlooked when rewrites included it in comments about Venezuela. Who knows?
But it is an embarrassing error for a publication with more than 1.5 million monthly readers. We used to have proofreaders.
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