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Venezuela quake rescue: Maduro needs a bunkmate
American Thinker ^ | June 29, 2026 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 06/29/2026 12:57:07 PM PDT by chickenlips

As ordinary Venezuelans dig their neighbors out of their monster two-earthquake rubble with their hands, the Venezuelan government is doing all it can to sit on its hands, loot the victims, obstruct the rescue teams, harass the aid givers, block the reporters, and hide the body count.

It's a foul picture, but one incident stands out:

#AHORA | Parte de la delegación de rescatistas de EEUU enfrenta a Diosdado Cabello y le reclama porque le están saboteando sus esfuerzos de rescatar a las víctimas.

“¿No quieres que vaya y ayude a la persona que está allí?”. pic.twitter.com/TzuSG3WKzM

— Orlando Avendaño (@OrlvndoA) June 29, 2026 Diosdado Cabello @dcabellor is blocking U.S. rescue teams while bodies are still being recovered from the rubble. Aid diverted. Unsafe buildings turned into death traps. Known narcos playing “emergency managers.” American help refused. Press barred. X blocked to hide the truth.…

— Rick de la Torre (@vrk_rick) June 29, 2026 Who was the angry little man in the red hat insolently poking at the brave American rescuer, telling him he couldn't save the people crying out from under the rubble?

This guy:

Es momento de ganarse esos millónes gente. Que esperan. pic.twitter.com/iErhxiLThU

— Vitalo (@VitaloP2021) June 29, 2026 Which seems odd, given that President Trump and other U.S. officials have said cooperation in the rescue effort has been going well.

The angry red-hatted man poking the American rescuer and inexplicably stopping him from rescuing trapped people crying out in the rubble, was no ordinary commissar or bureaucrat, taking orders from someone above him. He was Diodado himself, the second-most powerful person in the rump Chavista government which put itself into place after the U.S. extrication of Nicolás Maduro and his wife to a prison awaiting trial on drug-traffcking and money-laundering charges in New York.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: aid; cabello; earthquake; venezuela
I hope this isn't true and Trump is right, but after the reports from Trump about us completely obliterating the Iranian military I'm not inclined to view him as the most reliable source of information.
1 posted on 06/29/2026 12:57:07 PM PDT by chickenlips
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To: chickenlips

There is zero rebar seen in the ruble. The buildings fell like a house of cards.


2 posted on 06/29/2026 1:15:23 PM PDT by IDFbunny (No more brother wars.)
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To: chickenlips

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🇻🇪It’s an open secret that like Pablo Escobar, members of the current regime reportedly had properties in La Guaira filled with millions of dollars in cash, gold, drugs, and weapons.


might be a reason to muck up things


3 posted on 06/29/2026 1:19:49 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple ((Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere))
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To: chickenlips

I’m not inclined to view him as the most reliable source of information.


yep, reflect the media, you can’t help it.

Trump is doing everything he can when he says things. There are things he can’t control. What exactly would you have him do to satisfy you?


4 posted on 06/29/2026 1:22:23 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple ((Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere))
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To: PeterPrinciple

The % of idiots on this sight is at an all time high. I will never suspend my contributing to FR as long as it’s alive, but we’ve had to endure a growing number of Trump haters.

For example, the bunch that is upset that Trump “let” Iran rebuild for 60 days. Well, these asshats don’t realize, that we rearmed also, and we watched where they rebuilt, and guess what, we simply knocked their new installations down again, like swatting a fly.

Trump, doesn’t want to kill people unless he has, they kill us, and oddly enough during this period there have been no US deaths.

I CAN ASSURE YOU THAT HE WILL BOMB THE DAYLIGHTS OUT OF THEM IS ONE OF OUR TROOPS IS KILLED.


5 posted on 06/29/2026 1:36:26 PM PDT by nikos1121
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To: IDFbunny

I’ve noticed that in many videos...not a piece of rebar to be seen anywhere. Astonishing!


6 posted on 06/29/2026 2:02:55 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: chickenlips

Well we did obliterate their military (Air Force & Navy). Their asymmetrical warfare assets not so much.


7 posted on 06/29/2026 2:30:47 PM PDT by for-q-clinton
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To: PeterPrinciple

What exactly would you have him do to satisfy you?
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Does every announcement he makes have to be hyperbole? Seems like that completely destroyed Iranian military and their drones weren’t so destroyed after all.


8 posted on 06/29/2026 6:08:15 PM PDT by chickenlips (Neuter your politicians)
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You don’t understand the process of negotiation and the man doing it.

https://learntocarry.com/files/On-Sheep-Wolves-And-Sheepdogs.pdf

You want him to paint him self white and say “bah”


9 posted on 06/29/2026 6:13:06 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple ((Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere))
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To: chickenlips

Maybe you should read one of Trumps books.

Trump: The Art of the Deal

“I like thinking big. I always have. To me it’s very simple: If you’re going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big.”—Donald J. Trump

https://www.amazon.com/Trump-Art-Deal-Donald-J/dp/0399594493/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1UWTSOFWJQHRO&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.IwKt4S1VEMOySmsb9dGvSUNJxxPRpLeVnAhqvZO2xcqIrvPAg5lnsOIrjZvI6hnI3OOcMrPkm-KyNnhvhk42F0JmTOWG4BjFbEmaHV0E9unLBmS7F8PsiJcvNchv7bfBSVGQvF94LklVmN-BR_wGuaKXhj20Erth_ttV0LX0TanT-o1VL32yhIDw4AAom6CK_W6-O_F31WPnZFOtkiNepT3LVlJvMzEHP0xxFDpr0PM.u88zKyk6T9Gf68Re9IuzwYYjHEtGUr2g6eccuKR5m90&dib_tag=se&keywords=trumps+books&qid=1782782076&sprefix=trumps+books%2Caps%2C354&sr=8-1


10 posted on 06/29/2026 6:15:49 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple ((Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere))
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To: chickenlips

Does every announcement he makes have to be hyperbole? Seems like that completely destroyed Iranian military and their drones weren’t so destroyed after all.


and remember everything you think you know came to your through the lens of the media. You let them tell you what he said and they are very selective, wanting you to look at just one data point, not the whole complex issue.


11 posted on 06/29/2026 6:17:50 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple ((Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere))
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