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Latin American leaders aligned with the White House’s pro-freedom stance celebrated the arrest and extradition of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro on Saturday morning, extended support to the exiled winner of the 2024 Venezuelan presidential election, Edmundo González. Leftist leaders in the region, meanwhile, expressed alarm....Remaining Venezuelan authorities at press time have stated that they do not know Maduro and Flores’s whereabouts and it is not clear who is acting as head of state in that country. Among the first to react was libertarian Argentine President Javier Milei, who reposted a speech he had delivered recently on the status of the...

President Trump and other top officials were caught watching the Venezuelan raid in real-time. Obama watching the bin Laden raid in the Situation Room was a similar moment and photo op. But someone was missing in the Trump photos: Vice President JD Vance. Where was he? Even Biden was sitting next to Obama when Seal Team Six finally greased bin Laden. Vance was kept away because the administration was becoming uneasy about having both men in the exact location, given the security conditions. It was a designated survivor scenario. Vance was involved with the raid: “Vice President Vance was deeply...

Venezuela’s ousted dictator, Nicolás Maduro, was being held in a New York detention center Sunday as he awaited court proceedings on U.S. drug charges, a day after President Donald Trump ordered a raid to capture him and said the United States would take control of the oil-producing nation. Images of the 63-year-old Maduro blindfolded and handcuffed during his transfer to the United States stunned many Venezuelans and drew international criticism. The operation was Washington’s most contentious intervention in Latin America since the U.S. invasion of Panama 37 years ago. Maduro was scheduled to appear in federal court in Manhattan on...

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Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett said one of her key advantages over Senate primary opponent James Talarico was her relationships with Democrats who lost major elections, during an interview with “The SMG Report” posted to YouTube on Tuesday. Crockett’s interview with the outlet took place at the Maiden Foundation’s “Soulful Christmas” celebration on Dec. 19, 11 days after she announced her long-shot Senate run. She told “The SMG Report” that she would particularly be relying on former Democratic Georgia gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams and former Vice President Kamala Harris. “We need somebody that can win… because of all the work...

One of the classic definitions of antisemitism is insisting on one standard of morality and/or legality for the Jewish people, but a very different one for everyone else. For example — and I’m pulling this silly, unrealistic example out of a hat — if an American politician vowed to arrest the duly-elected Israeli leader but decried the arrest of the illegitimately elected Venezuelan leader, your Antisemitism Detector should start beeping. Especially when the Venezuelan leader was a wanted fugitive under American law — and the Israeli leader was not. Welcome to the manic mind of New York City Mayor Zohran...

Jorge Galicia, a Venezuelan exile who has spent the last five years touring U.S. college campuses warning young people about the dangers of socialism, said Saturday he is thrilled with the U.S. military action against his home country that led to the capture of dictator Nicolás Maduro. “Today was probably the happiest day of my entire life,” Galicia told The College Fix in an email Saturday. “God is finally giving us the opportunity to witness a measure of earthly justice through President Trump, his cabinet, and the courageous U.S. Armed Forces,” he said. “As someone who was forced into exile...

Geolocated footage shows where U.S helicopters landed to capture Nicolas Maduro in Caracas. Satellite imagery shows multiple destroyed buldings near his bunker. Photo and video show destroyed vehicles including Buk SAM systems.

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BOGOTA, Colombia – The Biden administration said Friday that it was offering $25 million for information leading to the arrest of Nicolás Maduro, the president of Venezuela, after he assumed a third term in office despite evidence suggesting that he lost Venezuela’s recent election. The announcement was a retaliatory measure by Washington, which does not recognize Maduro as the rightful president of Venezuela. Maduro has presented no evidence that he won a July election, while his opponent Edmundo González has presented thousands of publicly available vote tallies that he says indicate he easily won the most votes. The United States...

It has been a wild day on Twitter. (Or X, if you prefer.) After President Trump ordered the overnight strike in Venezuela, and US Delta Force operators captured and extracted dictator Nicolas Maduro, the social media platform has been a whirlwind of activity. From Venezuelans singing and dancing in celebration to leftists in America crying because one of their favorite world leaders had been taken out, we've frantically been trying to keep up with all of the reactions -- the good, the bad, and the extremely ugly. But amid all the furor, our favorite CNN commentator (and Salem Media radio...

New York’s order honoring Muslim American Heritage Month draws fierce criticism for spotlighting former Twin Towers site. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is under fire for an order to light 16 state landmarks, including One World Trade Center, in green Friday night to celebrate Muslim American Heritage Month. The first-ever such order was issued to honor “the values, faith and traditions of our Muslim American communities,” according to a press release from the governor’s office. But critics note it strikes a tone-deaf note, considering that One World Trade Center stands at the site of the Twin Towers destroyed by Islamic...

US will run Venezuela until a legitimate government can be installed, the president saidPresident Donald Trump on Saturday described a meticulously planned, middle-of-the-night special forces operation that ended in the capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro. The operation followed months of surveillance tracking Maduro's movements. Caracas went dark in the early morning hours of January 3 as Operation Absolute Resolve began with "discreet, precise" strikes that marked "the culmination of months of planning and rehearsal," according to chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine. It was an operation "that only the United States could do" through a...

Venezuela’s acting president, Delcy Rodriguez, who was sworn in on Saturday, is not the country’s legitimate leader, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said. Rubio spoke with Rodriguez — the country’s vice president — after the US conducted a daring military operation to capture the former Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro. However, he suggested the US will not support her staying in power. He called for elections to determine the next leader of the beleaguered South American country. “This is not about the legitimate president. We don’t believe that this regime in place is legitimate via an election,” Rubio told ABC’s “This...

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During the early hours of Saturday January 3, an official statement from the White House, signed by President Trump, confirmed that the US had captured both President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, and taken them out of Venezuela. At 2 a.m. sharp, thunderous sounds echoed through the capital city, part of what Trump called today “an assault not seen since World War Two… one of the most stunning displays of military might and competence in American history.” It was certainly an attack unlike anything ever seen in Venezuela. Within two hours, all of Caracas looked like a massive...

Venezuela's interim leader, Delcy Rodriguez, has hurled threats at Donald Trump after the capture of the country's president, Nicolas Maduro, who is now languishing in a New York federal jail. 'Never again will we be slaves, never again will we be a colony of any empire,' Rodriguez said. 'We're ready to defend Venezuela.'

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George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley is not a conservative, but he is an honest and very smart man. Since the news of Maduro’s capture by the U.S. Military under Trump this morning, he has been pointing out that Trump did not need approval from congress to do this, despite what Democrats are claiming now. Turley uses the example of Manuel Noriega, who was removed from Panama by the United States in 1989 under similar circumstances. He refers to the actions of other presidents as well. Democrats and their media allies will object in the months ahead, but there...