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  • US plans to seize Venezuelan president's plane held in Dominican Republic during Rubio visit

    02/06/2025 7:06:30 AM PST · by Macho MAGA Man · 31 replies
    WWL Radio 870 New Orleans ^ | February 6, 2025 | Associated Press
    SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — The Trump administration plans to seize a second plane belonging to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro ’s government that is currently in the Dominican Republic. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio intends to announce the seizure on Thursday during a visit to Santo Domingo, the last stop of his five nation tour of Central America, according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter and a State Department document obtained by The Associated Press. Carrying out the seizure required that Rubio sign off on a foreign aid freeze waiver request to pay more than $230,000...
  • Trump's envoy Ric Grenel just returned from Venezuela with 6 Americans held prisoner there

    01/31/2025 8:44:15 PM PST · by FLT-bird · 44 replies
    There's a new Sheriff in town. Trump is not Biden and everybody knows it. see link
  • President Trump denies ties to Venezuelan attack with 2 US men jailed (Pres Added)

    05/05/2020 2:39:47 PM PDT · by RomanSoldier19 · 17 replies
    AP ^ | 5/5/2020 | BY SCOTT SMITH AND JOSHUA GOODMAN / ASSOCIATED PRESS
    CARACAS, Venezuela — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the United States had nothing to do with an alleged incursion into Venezuela that landed two U.S. citizens behind bars in the crisis-stricken South American nation. Trump said he had just learned of the detention of the pair, accused by Venezuela of being mercenaries. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said they were part of an operation to kill him that was backed by neighboring Colombia and the United States. “Whatever it is, we’ll let you know,” Trump told reporters in Washington before departing from the White House to Arizona. “But it has...
  • Nicolás Maduro Calls for Puerto Rico Invasion to 'Liberate' Island From US

    01/13/2025 8:39:48 PM PST · by Olog-hai · 64 replies
    Newsweek ^ | Jan 13, 2025 at 12:19 PM EST
    Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has called for a campaign for the “liberation” of Puerto Rico from the United States. […] Although the chances of Puerto Rico being invaded appear unlikely, the comments serve as a reminder of the Venezuelan challenges that await President-elect Donald Trump when he returns to the White House on January 20. Maduro invoked Simón Bolívar, the Venezuelan soldier who liberated much of South America from Spanish rule, as he spoke about Puerto Rico. “Just as in the north they have a colonization agenda, we have a liberation agenda,” Maduro said during the closing of the International...
  • Iran Increases Military Presence In Venezuela With Drone Factory As Maduro Claims New Term In Office Despite Condemnation

    01/10/2025 9:43:12 PM PST · by blueplum · 10 replies
    Latin Times ^ | 10 Jan 2025 | Maria Villarroel
    Iran is increasing its military presence in Venezuela, with officials and personnel, with some members of the country's elite acquiring properties in the Latin American country and being offered political asylum ... The relationship between the two countries has grown over the years, Infobae has detailed, with Iran having established a drone development base at the El Libertador air base in Venezuela, where training for Venezuelan military personnel is also carried out. That project includes the production and training in the use of a wide range of unnamed aerial vehicles (UAV) Among them are the ZAMORA V-1 (Shahed-131), used for...
  • Trump warns Maduro not to harm Venezuelan opposition leaders after Machado's detention

    01/09/2025 4:15:19 PM PST · by Freeleesy · 11 replies
    CBS News ^ | Jan 9, 2024 | Mauricio Maldonado
    MIAMI - President-elect Donald Trump issued a stern warning to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Thursday after the brief detention of prominent opposition leader María Corina Machado, who had been leading massive protests against Maduro's government. On Truth Social, Trump called on Maduro to ensure the safety of opposition leaders, writing: "Venezuelan democracy activist María Corina Machado and President-elect González are peacefully expressing the voices and the WILL of the Venezuelan people with hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating against the regime. The great Venezuelan American community in the United States overwhelmingly support a free Venezuela and strongly supported me....
  • Latin America Can’t Let Its Guard Down on Venezuela-Guyana Tensions

    12/09/2024 11:50:23 AM PST · by nickcarraway · 7 replies
    World Politics Review ^ | Dec 9, 2024 | James Bosworth
    One year ago, Venezuela held a referendum to reaffirm its territorial claims on Guyana's Essequibo region. That ballot ended up being a preview of the country's stolen presidential election in July of this year. The turnout was so low that the electoral authorities lied about the results and never released the full vote tallies. While authorities claimed that 10 million votes were cast, independent analysts believe the number was fewer than 2 million, given the empty polling sites. Immediately following the referendum in December 2023, President Nicolas Maduro began what many portrayed at the time as a march to war...
  • Che Guevara’s Daughter Says She Should ‘Be There’ Fighting with Hezbollah in Lebanon.

    12/05/2024 6:16:46 AM PST · by Freeleesy · 61 replies
    Breitbart ^ | Dec 3, 2024 | Christian K. Caruzo
    Aleida Guevara, daughter of communist mass murderer Ernesto “Che” Guevara, recently claimed that she would like to go to Lebanon and fight against Israel alongside the Shiite jihadist terrorist group Hezbollah. Guevara, a 64-year-old Cuban physician, made the assertions in remarks given to the pro-Hezbollah Lebanese outlet Al Mayadeen during her attendance at an “anti-fascist” far-left event organized last week by Venezuela’s socialist regime in Caracas.
  • More Oil for Fewer Migrants: Trump Is Urged to Make Deal With Venezuela

    11/28/2024 3:38:33 PM PST · by Theoria · 29 replies
    WSJ ^ | 28 Nov 2024 | Kejal Vyas and Patricia Garip
    Lobbying efforts push for negotiations with strongman Nicolás Maduro instead of seeking regime change American oil executives and bond investors are urging President-elect Donald Trump to abandon his first-term policy of maximum pressure on Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro and instead strike a deal: more oil for fewer migrants.The quiet lobbying effort comes as Maduro hardens his authoritarian grip on the country with threats to arrest more opposition activists. They still challenge the July elections, in which Maduro’s regime claimed victory without presenting evidence. Some businessmen such as Harry Sargeant III, a billionaire GOP donor known for playing golf at Trump’s...
  • US recognizes Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez as president-elect, not Nicolas Maduro

    11/20/2024 5:23:33 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 11 replies
    CNN ^ | 11/20/24 | Stefano Pozzebon and Jennifer Hansler
    The United States has formally recognized Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez as the country’s president-elect following the disputed July 28 presidential election, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Tuesday on X. “The Venezuelan people spoke resoundingly on July 28 and made Edmundo Gonzalez the president-elect. Democracy demands respect for the will of the voters,” the top US diplomat posted while participating in the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro. The announcement marks a significant change in US policy towards Venezuela: up until now, the US and other countries said Gonzalez had won more votes than incumbent leader Nicolas Maduro in...
  • REVEALED: Iran plotted to kidnap Iranian-American journalist from Brooklyn, transport her by speedboat to Venezuela and then fly her to the Islamic republic because she criticized regime, FBI say

    07/14/2021 7:42:14 AM PDT · by DFG · 19 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 07/14/2021 | Harriet Alexander
    New York City prosecutors have charged four Iranian spies with plotting to kidnap a U.S. journalist from Brooklyn, smuggling her out of the city on a speedboat then sailing down to Venezuela before flying to Tehran, after she criticized the regime for its human rights abuses. Masih Alinejad, 44, a producer with Voice of America, told NBC News that she was the target of the plot. She was not named in court documents. The conspirators, described as intelligence officials, had also plotted to lure a person in the UK and three others in Canada to Iran, an indictment said. They...
  • EXCLUSIVE: Leaked Report Warns Venezuela Sending Intel Operatives, Released Prisoners to ‘Neutralize’ Targets in U.S.

    11/08/2024 8:25:10 AM PST · by Silentgypsy · 28 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 2024 11 07 | Randy Clark
    In a report reviewed exclusively by Breitbart Texas, human intelligence developed by frontline Border Patrol intelligence officers reveals the possibility of a formal covert operation being conducted by the Maduro regime. The operation is designed to infiltrate the United States using released inmates and pairing them with Venezuelan intelligence operatives to “neutralize” human targets within the United States. The report’s narrative, generated by the Rio Grande Valley Sector Intelligence Unit (SIU), indicates that released inmates from Venezuelan prisons have been directed to travel to the United States alongside Venezuelan intelligence officers to track down former Venezuelan military members, politicians, and...
  • News Summary-Intelligence Report Tuesday 10/1/2024*Israel's Credit Rating Lowered*Iran Attacks Israel Over Assassinations*US Port Strike On Gulf And Atlantic Coasts*BBC's Negative Picture Of China's Economy On China National Day

    10/01/2024 8:15:59 PM PDT · by Nextrush
    Nextrush Free ^ | 10/1/2024 | Nextrush/Self
    US politics the debate between the Vice-Presidential candidates... Credit ratings agency Standard and Poors lowering Israel's long-term credit rating from A+ to A... Late night attacks by Israeli warplanes in Lebanon... The recently appointed French Prime Minister Michel Barnier speaking about the need to cut spending... Russian Aerospace Forces in Syria hitting three jihadist bases... In the Ukraine War Russian troops advancing into the center of the town of Voehledar in the disputed Donetsk Region... Iran said it hit military targets in Israel...A Palestinian man killed in the Iranian missile attack... Dutch Party of Freedom leader Geert Wilders pushing for...
  • Biden Frees Venezuela’s ‘Financial Brain’, Granting Narco-Socialists a Major Win

    12/20/2023 8:59:40 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 22 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 12/20/2023 | CHRISTIAN K. CARUZO
    President Joe Biden greenlit the release of Colombian businessman Alex Saab, accused of acting as Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro’s top money launderer, on Wednesday. Saab’s release is allegedly the result of a prisoner swap with the rogue socialist regime that will also allow for the release of unjustly detained Americans in Venezuela, the Associated Press reported. Saab, 51, is a close personal ally of Maduro and is widely considered the socialist dictator’s financial brain. American law enforcement authorities arrested Saab in Cape Verde in 2020 after the Department of Justice indicted him in 2019 on charges of laundering $350...
  • GOP rep to set $100 million reward for arrest and conviction of Venezuela's Maduro

    09/25/2024 5:55:38 PM PDT · by Jan_Sobieski · 9 replies
    WND ^ | 09/25/2024 | Andrew Powell
    Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., has introduced a bill that will give a $100 million reward for the arrest and conviction of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro.In a news release, Scott said Maduro is continuing his efforts to steal a third Venezuelan election, after Maduro's highly contested victory during Venezuela's presidential elections this year.Joined by Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Scott will be introducing the STOP MADURO Act – otherwise known as the Securing Timely Opportunities for Payment and Maximizing Awards for Detaining Unlawful Regime Officials.The legislation increases the maximum reward amount from $15 million to a maximum of $100 million for information...
  • Venezuela is an America First Priority

    09/18/2024 9:02:40 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 12 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 09/18/2024 | Vernon Roken
    After four years of the Biden/Harris administration‘s feeble foreign policy, the redefining of the United States’ redlines should begin in our own backyard: Latin America and the Caribbean. After all, the value of renovating one's house is limited if the neighborhood is in shambles. To create a healthy neighborhood, it helps if neighbors share similar values, such as democracy, fair elections, and civil liberties. Fortunately, many of America's neighboring nations do. But there is one country whose owner is ruining the neighborhood, even though its people do value those ideals: Venezuela. Nicolas Maduro's stranglehold on his country has been a...
  • Treasury Targets Venezuelan Officials Aligned with Nicolas Maduro in Response to Electoral Fraud

    09/14/2024 6:52:45 AM PDT · by texas booster · 7 replies
    Treasury Press Release ^ | Sept 12 2024 | Dept of the Treasury
    WASHINGTON — Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated 16 Maduro-aligned officials who obstructed a competitive and inclusive presidential election process in Venezuela and violated the civil and human rights of the people. The individuals sanctioned today pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13692, as amended, include leaders of the Maduro-aligned National Electoral Council (CNE) and the Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ) who impeded a transparent electoral process and the release of accurate election results, as well as the military, intelligence, and government officials responsible for intensifying repression through intimidation, indiscriminate detentions, and censorship. The...
  • Venezuelan Opposition Candidate Seeks Asylum in Spain After Election Turmoil

    09/12/2024 10:13:57 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 5 replies
    Opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia had no choice but to flee Venezuela for exile in Spain to save his own life amid a “brutal wave of repression” after disputed presidential elections, the leader of the opposition Maria Corina Machado said Sunday. Gonzalez Urrutia, who the opposition says it can prove won July 28 elections in which strongman Nicolas Maduro claimed a widely questioned victory, arrived in Spain Sunday after a month in hiding in the crisis-hit South American country. The choice for him to leave was made as “his life was in danger,” Machado said on X. Gonzalez Urrutia had...
  • Venezuela Opposition Leader Driven Out of the Country by Maduro Regime

    09/09/2024 7:22:58 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 12 replies
    Hotair ^ | 09/09/2024 | John Sexton
    This is a sad story which just keeps getting worse. Socialist dictators Nicolas Maduro stole the recent election and seems to be getting away with it despite clear evidence that his opposition opponent Edmundo Gonzalez won by a wide margin. To solidify his rule, Maduro has been cracking down on dissent, jailing hundreds of opposition figures and forcing others to flee the country for their own safety. Last week, his government issued an arrest warrant for Gonzalez himself. In a letter posted on X on Monday, the Prosecutor’s Office said Gonzalez is suspected of “crimes associated with terrorism” including “usurpation...
  • Venezuelan security forces surround Argentine embassy after opposition members take refuge inside

    09/07/2024 11:10:11 AM PDT · by NorthernDancer · 12 replies
    CNN ^ | September 7, 2024 | Mauricio Torres
    Venezuelan security forces surrounded the Argentine embassy in the capital Caracas on Friday after two opposition members took refuge inside, according to posts by the opposition duo on social media. The pair joined four other Venezuelan opposition figures who have taken refuge in the embassy this year. One of the men, Pedro Urruchurtu, the international coordinator for opposition leader María Corina Machado, wrote on X that there were patrols of hooded and armed officials surrounding the diplomatic building. The other, former deputy Omar González, also posted on X, writing: “They cut off the electricity service to the Argentine embassy in...