A Fraud Larger Than Daycare
This week on New World Next Week: Why did Venezuela stand down?; what is the Somali fraud story REALLY about?; and bye-bye public broadcasting! Here’s more from The Corbett Report and Media Monarchy.
Call Me Stormy
Finding righteous currents in turbulent times
Archive for the tag “Maria Corina Machado”
What Happens Next?
Megyn Kelly on Venezuela, Ben Shapiro’s treachery, and Mark Levin’s mental illness. Here’s more from Tucker Carlson.
Going, Going, Back, Back…
To Venezuela.
Here’s a two-part series on Venezuela, digging into the efforts by the CIA, as well as the Trump administration, to topple the Socialist President Nicholas Maduro. Since 1998, when Hugo Chavez took control of Venezuela, “it is like Iran, a couple hundred miles downwind from Miami,” says Mike Benz, former cybersecurity officer for the U.S. State Department.
Here we learn about Operation Absolute Resolve, the U.S. raid that led to the capture of Maduro. But there were earlier covert monkey business as well, including Operation Gideon. This foiled armed incursion into Venezuela, in 2020, also aimed to capture Maduro. A Canadian mercenary Jordan Goudreau was involved in that effort, drawing upon assistance from a Trump security officer — Keith Schiller.
There are many other players here, from government agencies to oil companies and even airlines. Each of these two installments is roughly an hour and a half — so there’s quite a bit of depth and ground covered.
Chavez Mausoleum Targeted
The American capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro was a precise operation, carried out like clockwork.
But there was one notable exception. Among the military targets bombed or strafed was one significant civic structure — the mausoleum containing the remains of former Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, who orchestrated Venezuela fall into socialism in 1998. Sean Penn must be crying in his beer.
Here’s a look back at Chavez’s backward rule, which led one-quarter of Venezuela’s population to flee the country, mostly to the United States, but also to Spain and other points across Latin America. Patrick Ben-David explains in a Valuetainment short.
Who will take over as the next president of Venezuela? One possibility is Maria Corina Machado, the opposition leader in Venezuela, who recently was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. Trump, though, indicated he prefers a candidate that could generate more support. It’s not clear who that might be.
Thee air strikes on Caracas began after midnight — around 1:15 a.m. Saturday. Maduro had been captured by 4:20 am. and was arriving, via plane, to New York City by 7:25 a.m.
Under Maduro, Venezuela supplied more than 70 percent of its oil exports to Communist China. The Latin American nation also supplied heavy amounts of oil to radical Islamic groups, including Hamas and Hezbollah, across the Middle East. With the socialists losing their tight control over Venezuela, those supplies can be controlled and/or diverted. So this could dampen danger around the globe. Here’s more from Lori Colley.
