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[Rick Scott @SenRickScott]

I just had a very good phone call with @MariaCorinaYA today.

She has the right attitude, aptitude, and above all the support of the people of Venezuela to make the progress in civil society that leads to elections and the establishment of a fully democratic and prosperous republic.

She’s prepared to return to Venezuela peacefully and constructively, and she’s willing and ready to sit down with those currently holding power, including Delcy Rodríguez, as well as all relevant actors in the public and private sector to help build a better future for Venezuela. Her number one priority is freedom and prosperity for the people of Venezuela.

Thank you @POTUS for being engaged and working to help make this possible. Thank you @SecRubio for your continued work on this. Nothing good in Venezuela now or in the future would be possible without your efforts. You have ended a threat to the US but you also are improving the lives of the Venezuelan people and restoring an ally. 

The best thing for everyone right now is for María Corina Machado to be in Venezuela. In every state in her homeland and among all social groups, the people are looking to her for leadership and support. They want her there to help build the future.

Her leadership will be great not only for the U.S., but countries around the world. She fights for peace, prosperity, and democratic freedom. That’s what Venezuelans deserve and I’m proud to work with her.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

What we are witnessing in Brazil is the biggest political backfire in modern political history.

Communist tyrants came after Brazil’s Trump, Jair Bolsonaro.

He survived an assassination attempt.
They banned him from running for office.
Then they threw him in jail.

They accused him of attempting a coup after his election was stolen, just like they did here to Trump.

He’s currently serving a 27 year prison sentence.

The response: His wife won a Senate seat. His son Carlos won a Senate seat. His son Renan won a seat in Congress. His son Flávio is ahead of Lula for president of Brazil.

His son could unseat the very tyrant who threw him in jail.

The persecution of Bolsonaro has backfired into a political retribution against those who weaponized Government against the people's will.

You might be able to try to silence a man but you cannot silence a movement.

[Esteban Gerbasi @estebangerbasi]

1) Trump presume en TIME que Venezuela es uno de sus grandes logros: Maduro fuera, Delcy adentro, “trabajamos bien juntos”, y “control completo” del petróleo con Exxon y Chevron.
2) El mismo Trump dice que elecciones “todavía es demasiado pronto”. O sea: remoción sin transición, crudo sin mandato, y el aparato que saqueó el país sigue operando. Eso no es victoria. Es prórroga, complicidad y corrupción.
3) Una etapa de transición existe para desmontar el régimen, no para reciclarlo. Mientras Delcy administre y el voto espere, no hay reconstrucción, mucho menos transición. Hay negocio.
Venezuela no se “reconstruye”, se posterga la narco dictadura con apoyo de EEUU 🇺🇸.

[David Alandete @alandete]

Algún día les contaré de los inquiokupas que tuvimos años en la casa de mi padre, descanse en paz, el daño que hicieron, el gasto gigantesco que supusieron para mi madre y los hermanos, lo que costó sacarlos. Con esto del Gobierno ahora entiendo que, además de soportarlo y pagarlo todo, debíamos haberles dado las gracias después de haber dejado la casa así.

[Angelo Giuliano 🇨🇭🇮🇹 @angeloinchina]

VENEZUELA: THIS IS NOT CIVIL WAR — YET

The streets this week
Caracas saw hundreds around Plaza Venezuela and the UCV while workers marched from Parque Carabobo toward the Ministry of Labor chanting for Machado, for elections now and for Delcy out, and the same night Anzoátegui, Aragua, Guárico and Portuguesa answered with cacerolazos and burning tires because the blackouts keep coming.
A setback, sold as collapse
Western press will package this as the beginning of the end, but it is a setback and that is all it is so far, after years of sanctions, sabotage and a CIA-backed fifth column that left the economy wrecked and the country still divided.
The same script
Maduro has been gone since January, Delcy sits in Miraflores under Washington’s thumb and gets received in New York like a queen while Machado is blocked at the border, and that is not transition, that is a deal done behind closed doors. Delcy is a traitor. Cut the head, fill the streets and wait for a general to flip: that was 2002, and it lasted forty-eight hours.
Regrouping
Chavista forces are not finished and they are reorganizing, because militias, party structures and loyal units in the FANB do not vanish when a few hundred people hold Plaza Venezuela until the rain starts, even if Venezuela is not Iran or Russia and the fifth column is real enough that wishful thinking helps nobody.
Not war, not victory
This is a probe timed with the UN and a Trump photo, and it will not end well for anyone who thinks slogans, blackouts, a traitor in the palace and a Nobel prize in Panama are enough to finish the job.
Hope for the best and prepare for the worst. Patria. Sovereignty. The rest is noise.

[Financial Times @FT]

Three of Britain’s top corruption prosecutors started working for Venezuelan billionaire Alejandro Betancourt when Swiss authorities were seeking his extradition on suspicion of money-laundering. https://t.co/IbsfWmfmmF

[Caracas Chronicles @CaracasChron]

Venezuela can be a strong US ally without just being obedient. Rómulo Betancourt proved in the 1960s that democracy, reform and sovereignty could coexist with a close partnership with Washington.

By @JuanRequesens👇 https://t.co/3s3oZmcYXg

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

Add the Fed Funds Rate to this chart, and it all becomes clear

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

When we talk about abortion, how come the conversation does not normally include the robust trade in tiny fetal body parts & organs? Or the horror of babies born alive when abortion fails who are then left to die or are killed? What about the dismemberment of babies in the womb as their little bodies are slowly torn apart? The sheer weight of this demands an honest conversation. I had one with Seth Gruber.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Just a reminder that while the U.S. Senate remains incapable of getting Voter ID passed in America, all of these countries have it:

- Iceland
- Sweden
- New Zealand
- Denmark
- Canada
- Ireland
- Switzerland
- Finland
- Australia
- Luxembourg
- Netherlands
- Germany
- Austria
- Malta
- U.K.
- Spain
- Mauritius
- Uruguay
- Japan
- Italy
- France
- South Korea
- Costa Rica
- Botswana
- Portugal
- Estonia
- Israel
- Czech Republic
- India
- Taiwan
- Chile
- Belgium
- Cyprus
- Slovenia
- Lithuania
- South Africa
- Jamaica
- Latvia
- Slovakia
- Greece
- Panama
- Bulgaria
- Indonesia
- Argentina
- Poland
- Brazil
- Ghana
- Croatia
- Hungary
- Colombia
- Peru
- El Salvador
- Romania
- Serbia
- Hong Kong
- Singapore
- Georgia
- Honduras
- Ecuador
- Bangladesh
- Ukraine
- Bolivia
- Turkey
- Kenya
- Thailand
- Lebanon
- Nicaragua
- Venezuela
- Palestine
- Pakistan
- Iraq
- Haiti

America’s elections are worse than third world…

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

Well done to Javier Milei, Argentina’s fearless leader. He called out the globalists on their own stage. May God bless these leaders who are brave enough to speak the truth & stand up to the global cult. These people are forging ahead with their anti-human agenda. They sweeten the poison with many rewards: cushy jobs, elaborate titles, prestigious awards, luxurious trips & tons of money. But it is still a poisoned chalice. Finally millions of people are willing to stand up & speak up in spite of the threats & tyranny. They see through the tactics & the institutions & more are saying no every day. Evil cannot prevail. God wins.

[LeoBaz @LeoBazs]

@imdat_oner Truly it’s sad to see you may be right! Inmoral and dubious individuals survive in today’s world Politics

[LeoBaz @LeoBazs]

@elmundoes Que no se preocupe mucho. Si fuera conveniente para Negocios inescrupulos seguramente el US @StateDept @marcorubio y la administracion Trump levantaran el teléfono para ayudar a que lo liberen como a ciertos Boli millonarios “petroleros” Venezolanos

[Per Kurowski @PerKurowski]

In Venezuela, where the vast majority of its income comes from natural resources bestowed by providence, what freedom and what true democracy can exist if such income is distributed by a few self-serving individuals? 🤔😡
https://t.co/0AqoQ0kaUb

[Pablo Aure 🇻🇪 @pabloaure]

#URGENTE 🚨 | Donald Trump, aliado y cómplice del regimen encabezado por Delcy Rodríguez, perderá las elecciones de medio término, quizás como ningún presidente lo ha hecho en las últimas décadas.
Las cosas pintan tan mal para él que incluso algunos republicanos en ambas cámaras han comenzado conversaciones para respaldar a los demócratas en una investigación penal en su contra, y a su vez distanciarse de su impopular y nociva imagen.

¡CUALQUIER ALIADO DE LA DICTADURA VENEZOLANA DEBE CAER, Y TRUMP CAERÁ!

[LeoBaz @LeoBazs]

@OrlvndoA @EmmaRincon A esta no la mandaron al cuartito

https://t.co/KKPrkHwZyq

[LeoBaz @LeoBazs]

@NayibBukeleDice #BRAVO Pdte @nayibbukele Después de tanto sufrimiento parece mentira que un pueblo pueda renacer como El Salvador. NO veo la hora de que #Venezuela tambien resurja de sus cenizas como un Ave Fénix y para ello se requiere de Moral y Luces, no de Mafias

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

TERRIFYING: In most European capital cities, at least 30% of schoolchildren are now Muslim.

The numbers are really astonishing.

Brussels’s schools are now 52% Muslim. Amsterdam 43%. Vienna 41%. London 37%. Stockholm 35%.

Europe’s identity and future are imploding.

[LeoBaz @LeoBazs]

@caedrolo12 Dealing with corrupted nonElected officials and torturers is now considered “Foreign Policy victory” ?

[LeoBaz @LeoBazs]

@GenFlynn @MariaCorinaYA @realDonaldTrump Corrupt, torturers and thieves. These are the criminals the @StateDept and the @realDonaldTrump Administration are happy to “deal” with