2 weeks ago - Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit ... Venezuelans celebrate after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro had been captured and flown out of the country in Santiago, Chile, Saturday, Jan.

January 16, 2025 - Share this via Facebook Share this ... this via Reddit Share this via Telegram Share this via Printer ... In the lead-up to Venezuela’s July 28 presidential elections, authorities intensified repression, targeting human rights defenders and opposition members with arrests and disqualifications, and tightening restrictions on civic space. Following the election, international monitors raised serious concerns about the electoral council’s claim that Nicolás Maduro was ...

2 weeks ago - Share on FacebookShare on XShare on RedditShare by emailPrint friendly versionCopy page URL Add Reason to Google ... On the same day that U.S. forces invaded Venezuela to capture Nicolás Maduro, the Justice Department published a federal indictment that supposedly justified the operation.

2 weeks ago - And it was not immediately clear if Ms. Rodriguez would even play along. In a televised address, she accused the United States of making an illegal invasion and asserted that Mr. Maduro remained Venezuela’s legitimate leader.

2 weeks ago - Venezuela's government, in a statement, called on its supporters to take to the streets. 'People to the streets!' the statement said. 'The Bolivarian Government calls on all social and political forces in the country to activate mobilization plans and repudiate this imperialist attack.' The statement added that President Maduro had 'ordered all national defense plans to be implemented' and declared 'a state of external disturbance'.

1 week ago - If you agree that Maduro got what he deserved but don’t like how it was done or by whom, I say—memo to the Obama administration—that sometimes it’s better to do the right thing with bad intentions than the wrong thing with the best intentions. This brings us back to Venezuela.

2 weeks ago - Maduro captured: In a raid early Saturday morning on a military residential complex in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas, U.S. military forces captured the country's president, Nicolas Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores.

2 weeks ago - Trump and his henchmen have framed ... a CIA drone strike this week on a docking facility in Venezuela itself. Just hours before Trump claimed on Truth Social that U.S. authorities had captured President Nicolás Maduro in Saturday’s raids, the Maduro government issued a defiant ...

5 days ago - OPINION: ‘Venezuelans know authoritarianism. We lived it. We escaped it. And we will tell you that bureaucratic objections from far-off academics are not equivalent to daily repression.‘ · In recent days, a number of American professors have rushed to condemn U.S. action against Nicolás Maduro, framing it as reckless, illegal, or imperialist.

2 weeks ago - If someone tries to tell you with a straight face — someone like a mainstream media commentator or a constitutionally supine Democratic member of Congress, just for instance — that Maduro was an illegitimate, anti-democratic and corrupt leader posing as a populist, who had sabotaged and divided a previously affluent country, please tell that person to sit quietly with those words and their conscience for a few moments and then speak them again, slowly and carefully. The unprovoked American invasion of Venezuela, the apparent decapitation of its government and the abduction or kidnapping (or “arrest,” if we must) of Maduro and his wife are signs of both the Trump regime’s strength and its fatal weakness.

2 weeks ago - The security-conscious Maduros were having their location tracked by the CIA in the days leading up to their capture, CNN reported. Trump ordered the mission two days ago. Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez has demanded 'proof of life,' suggesting she fears Maduro and Flores may have been killed during the operation.

2 weeks ago - The emerging White House strategy ... into coercion of Maduro’s left-behind lieutenants. The administration is demanding acquiescence to Trump’s dream of an obedient, MAGAfied Western Hemisphere. The focal point of the effort is Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, ...

1 week ago - Share on FacebookShare on XShare on RedditShare by emailPrint friendly versionCopy page URL Add Reason to Google ... In the day following the capture of Venezuelan Dictator Nicolás Maduro, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem proclaimed that "Venezuela today is more free than it was yesterday."

2 weeks ago - I’m sure all of this comes off as leftist babble to the Venezuelan diaspora, many of whom cheered Maduro’s fate from Spain to Mexico, Miami to Los Angeles. Only a deluded pendejo could support what Maduro wrought on Venezuela, which was a prosperous country and a relatively stable U.S.

2 weeks ago - ‘Life has been stuck for 1.5 years’: H-1B approved, but client decisions leave Indian tech workers grounded — here’s what Reddit post says · 'Got off the phone with Rubio': Republican senator says no further action in Venezuela as Maduro is in US custody

3 days ago - For many Venezuelans, El Helicoide is the physical representation of the decades of repression they have felt under successive governments. But with Maduro ousted and replaced by his vice president Delcy Rodriguez, things may soon change in the South American nation.