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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...

Sorry about the source, Facebook, but it is the California Patriots Network. This gentleman makes an impassioned case about Venezuela and what is really happening and it isn’t about oil, as the mainstream press insists. https://www.facebook.com/reel/2003749590406462

Hundreds of revelers chanted and celebrated outside a Brooklyn lockup as Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were hauled inside to face federal narco-terrorism charges. The couple were greeted at the Brooklyn Detention Center with the boisterous crowd triumphantly applauding and chanting “down with the dictator,” “shame on you,” and “dirty scumbag!” Venezuelan national Ronny Chirinos was one of more than 200 opponents who eagerly waited outside the prison for more than an hour in the bitter cold for the ousted dictator to arrive in cuffs. “It’s such a joy to see the dictator fall, but the...

From a Venezuelan journalist: Stop using these 3 phrases when you talk about Venezuela. https://twitter.com/DahliaKurtz/status/2007649585888673975?s=20 1 m 41 s !!!

I'm probably one of the most antiwar posters on Free Republic. I hate every bit of what we're doing in the Mideast and Europe. Deploying troops to Syria and Gaza, funding and aiding the Ukraine s**thole. Constantly warring with other nations on behalf of our (lol) "allies." It's all folly, even evil. This is hitting different. Venezuelan Communist criminals confiscated -literally stole - American oil fields, private property that belonged to Americans and American companies. Nobody has been held to account until now. Maduro is a criminal dictator who fk'd with our electoral and immigration systems in a major way....

Jan 3 (Reuters) - Venezuela will resist the presence of foreign troops, Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino said in a video early on Saturday, as U.S. President Donald Trump said Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro had been captured and was being removed from the country. A U.S. attack on the country in the early morning struck civilian areas, Padrino said, and Venezuela is compiling information about dead and injured people.

Venezuelans celebrate after US President Donald Trump announced that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro had been captured and flown out of the country. President Trump offered and advance warning to Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro months before the US captured him and his wife. “He doesn’t want to f--k around with the United States," the president said in an October press conference. The Official White House Rapid Response account resurfaced the clip Saturday morning -- just hours after handing down a litany of charges against the embattled dictator and his wife.

Russia is offering stark criticism of the U.S. military attack on Venezuela, which resulted in the capture of President Nicolas Maduro. In response, Russia called for a full meeting of the United Nations Security Council. “This morning, the United States carried out an act of armed aggression against Venezuela. This causes deep concern and condemnation,” Russia said in a statement from its Foreign Ministry. “The pretexts cited to justify such actions are unfounded. Ideologized hostility has prevailed over practical pragmatism and over a willingness to build relations based on trust and predictability,” Russian officials wrote, nearly five years into the...

As video of U.S. military operations inside Venezuela began to surface on social media, President Donald Trump has announced that overnight the U.S. military carried out a “large scale strike” against Venezuela and captured President Nicolas Maduro.

BREAKING: President Trump announces successful strike against Venezuela, says Nicolas Maduro has been captured

A confidential and classified directive issued by the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic has been leaked. The document orders all major Iranian banks, payment networks, card systems and financial institutions to immediately enter emergency operational mode in anticipation of nationwide unrest, sabotage, shutdown scenarios and regime-level crisis. The directive explicitly instructs banks to: • Prepare for blackouts and infrastructure collapse • Secure and relocate critical financial data • Activate crisis-mode parallel payment systems • Prepare for system shutdowns, mass disruption, and nationwide instability • Create alternative financial survival mechanisms in case the regime loses control In plain language: The...

Trump is taking down the Maduro regime in Venezuela because a small group of patriots stopped the 2024 election fraud. And they figured out how the 2020 election was rigged by voting machines owned by the Maduro regime.Venezuela = America's rigged elections.

The United States is strengthening its naval presence in the waters off Venezuela to counter threats posed by drug cartels. More than 4,000 personnel will be deployed to the area, amid growing tension between Washington and Caracas. The U.S. government has not indicated any intention of a land incursion into the South American nation. The news follows confirmation last week of three U.S. Aegis guided-missile destroyers being deployed to the waters. Then, more recently, Venezuela announced it would send military vessels to the Caribbean Sea and elsewhere to help combat drug trafficking. According to the U.S. Navy’s new chief of...

Mass riots with destruction and violence have spread across Serbia. A color revolution asppears to be ongoing in Serbia. We have been reporting here on TGP about Brussel’s attempts to remove Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s government for the ‘crime’ of maintaining diplomatic relations with their Slavic Russian neighbors. Mass protests have devolved into violent riots, fueled by shady Globalist NGOs and intelligence agencies, as you can – read from December 2024 – in Serbian PM Vučić Says ‘He’s Not Assad’, Vows To Defend His Country, as He Accuses Foreign Intelligence Services of Attempting To Overthrow His Government. After the return...

Last week, I made a slightly bold prediction that the Iranian mullah regime would fall somewhere between June 17 and 24. The predicate was that, since the end of WW2, the US Deep State (along with its Cold War enemy, the USSR, for the first half of that period) has been managing the world’s regions by situating relatively equal forces in opposition to each other. This keeps regional conflicts at a low-simmering boil, which is controlled and limited—and, most importantly, restricted from overflowing beyond the region and thrusting the world into WW3. Further, this strategy, while noble and even successful,...

ran launched a missile attack Monday on a U.S. military base in Qatar, retaliating for the American bombing of its nuclear sites. The announcement was made on state television as martial music played. A caption on screen called it “a mighty and successful response by the armed forces of Iran to America’s aggression.” The attack came shortly after Qatar closed its airspace as a precaution amid threats from Iran.

I spent millions of my own money and TRAVELED THE ENTIRE COUNTRY campaigning for President Trump and his MAGA agenda and his promises. And Trump’s MAGA agenda included these key promises: NO MORE FOREIGN WARS. NO MORE REGIME CHANGE. WORLD PEACE. And THIS is what the people voted for. Only 6 months in and we are back into foreign wars, regime change, and world war 3. It feels like a complete bait and switch to please the neocons, warmongers, military industrial complex contracts, and neocon tv personalities that MAGA hates and who were NEVER TRUMPERS! After the bombs were dropped,...

FACT: Trump has been the MOST vocal enemy of the Neocon policy of "forever wars." He's the one who first dared to say this on the debate stage in 2016, shocking everyone. Remember? But we cannot let the specter of "forever wars" stop us from EVER taking military action, if necessary. And sometimes in history such things are necessary. A brilliantly executed strike on the nuclear facilities of blood-thirsty Islamic lunatics is not the same thing as the utopian idiocy of trying to turn Afghanistan and Iraq into Ohio and Iowa. Trump's track record should give us confidence that he...

At least 20 worshippers have been killed and 52 injured in a suicide bomb attack at a Christian church in Syria. The bomber opened fire as people were praying inside Mar Elias Church, in the Dweila neighbourhood of Damascus, before detonating his vest. Some children are thought to be among the wounded, according to state media. Horrifying footage showed blood splattered over the shattered pews and masonry walls following the blast. Syria's interior ministry said a member of the Islamic State group was behind Sunday's attack. 'A suicide attacker affiliated with the Daesh (IS) terrorist group entered the Saint Elias...

Following U.S. airstrikes targeting Iran’s key nuclear facilities, Maryam Rajavi, the president-elect of the Iranian opposition group National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), declared, “Now Khamenei must go.” She added, “The Iranian people welcome the end of the war and seek peace and freedom.” On Sunday, Rajavi delivered a sharp rebuke of the regime, calling for sweeping change and blaming the Supreme Leader for years of costly miscalculations that have pushed the nation into crisis, driven by a now-destroyed nuclear weapons program pursued at the Iranian people’s expense. “Khamenei is responsible for an unpatriotic project that, in addition to...