Soy el presidente!
Posted on 04/24/2026 3:00:12 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
You might expect the left leaning New Yorker magazine to be at least somewhat sympathetic to the plight of Venezuelan President (via fraud) Nicolas Maduro, currently residing in Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center while awaiting his court trial for drug trafficking, narco-terrorism, and weapons offences. But Diego Lasarte's Tuesday story seems less about sympathy and more about generating laughter whether intentional or not as you can see in "What Nicolás Maduro’s Life Is Like in a Notorious Brooklyn Jail.
The jail is "notorious," and Maduro is not?
The possibility of laughter immediately emerges when Lasarte reveals that Maduro's temporary roommate was a heavily tattooed rapper with a long rap sheet named Tekashi 6ix9ine (birth name Daniel Hernandez). It turns out that Mr. 6ix9ine quickly became a huge fanboy of Maduro due in large part to the fact that the incarcerated Venezuelan gave him an autographed handmade figurine of SpongeBob SquarePants:
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
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Image of Maduro in jail cell is AI generated.
...And does this mean that Maduro is NOT in jail?
Soy el presidente!
The fact that half the country would sell out the US if it would hurt President Trump tells us all we need to know.
The news article is just a symptom.
I thought you were trying to be funny, but he really did do that.
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