Anibal Troconis 🇻🇪🇨🇦

Venezolano fuera de Venezuela.#YMM

[Anibal Troconis 🇻🇪🇨🇦 @aatroconis]

@Is_Fugitiva Entiendo. Te pregunto por qué una tía mía vive en la torre que colapsó en Mar Suite y todavía no sabemos nada de ella ni de su esposo.

[Anibal Troconis 🇻🇪🇨🇦 @aatroconis]

@AndrewsAbreu Hay alguna lista de heridos, damnificados, o sobrevivientes?

[Pedro Mario Burelli @pburelli]

RUBIO’S SEQUENCE ON VENEZUELA WAS ALWAYS WRONG

Aboard Air Force One, on the way to Beijing, Marco Rubio told Sean Hannity what any serious Venezuela strategy must eventually confront:

“There’s going to have to be a process that’s legitimate… presidency, elections, things of that nature. That moment has to arrive”.

He was right.

He added that “we don’t want to wait too long.”

That was right too.

But this is taking too long. And delay has consequences.

The regime is being normalized without legitimacy, without the slightest democratic mandate, and without acceptance from Venezuelan society. Not by the Venezuelan people. Not by free elections. Not by serious recovery. But by companies and individuals signing deals that have little to do with the orderly rebuilding of the country and everything to do with taking advantage of the weakness and fear of a criminal regime seeking impunity the old-fashioned way.

It’s reasonable to assume that the majority of individuals with unrestricted access to @POTUS are celebrating their financial arrangements with Caracas and pitching the status quo as wonderful.

Any strategy for Venezuela that does not place Venezuelans at the center is flawed. Ignoring the will of the people is a huge mistake. Ignoring their legitimate disgust with Maduro, Delcy Rodríguez, and the entire machinery of repression and theft is sheer lunacy.

For all the talk of stabilization, there is still no real transparency over the oil and gold flows now being managed, tolerated, or enabled by Washington. Who benefits? Where is the money?

Meanwhile, some 500 political prisoners remain in jail because Washington misread its leverage or bought the regime’s supporters’ oldest lie: that the alternative to Maduro was and is civil war.

This is false.

The truth from which honest scenarios should be built is that Venezuelans have fought for 27 years to live in a democracy without resorting to violence. They have organized, voted, marched, negotiated, gone hungry, resisted, and fled. Violence has been the instrument of only one side in this long nightmare: Chavismo. First under Chávez and Maduro. Then under Maduro and the Rodríguez Gómez siblings, Delcy, the “terrific person,” and Jorge, an election-stealing sociopath.

You do not build stability by falsifying history or buttressing illegality.

There is no way to recover with the type of deal-making we are seeing today, which is all about well-connected people trying to make a quick buck before the rules change. Worse still, some now dress this up as pragmatism and quietly advocate for Delcy Rodríguez as a “long-term” alternative, as if Venezuela’s future should be negotiated around a regime figure who was repudiated in July of 2024 and would be trounced in any truly free and fair election.

This significant departure from reason and principle has already demonstrated that Rubio’s sequence was critically flawed.

It should never have been stabilization, recovery, transition.

It should have been stabilization, transition, recovery.

Real stabilization means ending repression, freeing political prisoners, stopping economic theft, and making all flows transparent. How are we doing?

Transition is a process with a singular objective: establishing a legitimate elected government that enjoys the support and mandate of its citizens, which is achieved through an election.

Only then can real recovery begin.

Serious capital requires legitimacy, rule of law, enforceable contracts, credible institutions, and a government Venezuelans and the world can trust. It doesn’t stem from Washington’s decision to recognize those who stole two consecutive elections because it is expedient or because you convinced yourself that the same people who wrecked the country can now be repurposed as the solution.

Rubio was right to tell Hannity that moving too fast could have broken things, but moving too slowly is already normalizing the regime that is to blame for all that is broken in Venezuela.

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Venezuela’s new amnesty law is supposed to help move forward from years of political repression under Maduro, but many opposition members, journalists, and human rights defenders have been excluded. At least 457 political prisoners remain behind bars. https://t.co/3QuSJDMHpn

[Anibal Troconis 🇻🇪🇨🇦 @aatroconis]

@PrinceOfWhale15 @ianbremmer @MariaCorinaYA It was a courtesy of MCM. Like when you say " mi casa es tu casa". Who would have imagined that the pathetic Trump would accept it.

[Anibal Troconis 🇻🇪🇨🇦 @aatroconis]

@NewsJunkie_247 @ianbremmer @MariaCorinaYA It was a courtesy of MCM. Like when you say " mi casa es tu casa". Who would have imagined that Trump would accept it.

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Sidelined by Trump after the abduction of Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s opposition leader, María Corina Machado, held a rally in Madrid. She still hopes for democracy in her country even if Trump could care less. 
https://t.co/mlTbiEYMGQ

[Charles Shapiro @shapiro_WAC]

Excellent analysis of Trump’s Venezuela policy by Amb James Story @DiploStory. If anything he’s not tough enough on Trump Admin for legitimizing Delcy. “What’s troubling about Delcy Rodriguez’s transition from pariah to Trump’s partner”
https://t.co/5W1wXhBsz2

[Anibal Troconis 🇻🇪🇨🇦 @aatroconis]

@atrupar And the Strait of Hormuz is now called the "Iran Canal".

[Anibal Troconis 🇻🇪🇨🇦 @aatroconis]

Waiting for the locksmith to arrive #Integrity

[Anibal Troconis 🇻🇪🇨🇦 @aatroconis]

@RepMikeLevin Every day, Trump and his entourage look more and more like Chavez and his corrupt regime.

[Anibal Troconis 🇻🇪🇨🇦 @aatroconis]

@piersmorgan @adeferr @realDonaldTrump And return the medal to Maria Corina Machado.

[Anibal Troconis 🇻🇪🇨🇦 @aatroconis]

@ianbremmer @JordanSchachtel @EWErickson He should return the medal to Maria Corina Machado.

[Anibal Troconis 🇻🇪🇨🇦 @aatroconis]

We, Venezuelans, call that the Lista de Tascón.

Every day, Trump looks more and more like Chavez. And that is not good!

Check out this article: https://t.co/nUC18Bb4oN

[Anibal Troconis 🇻🇪🇨🇦 @aatroconis]

@ianbremmer @shaunmmaguire @noonanjo And most of the non-Americans too.

[Anibal Troconis 🇻🇪🇨🇦 @aatroconis]

@atrupar Really stupid statements: Trump the Liberator and free press in Venezuela. Only an egotistical and narcissistic person would believe that.

[Anibal Troconis 🇻🇪🇨🇦 @aatroconis]

@gtconway3d So, using this logic, he didn't prevent 8 wars. Just some potential strategic attacks.

[Anibal Troconis 🇻🇪🇨🇦 @aatroconis]

It will be another TACO.

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

“Art of the deal” LMAO!

Utterly hilarious watching guys like you constantly ascribe three dimensional chess moves to a malignant narcissist with the impulse control and attention span of a two year old.

He will have forgotten about today’s crazy threat by tomorrow, when it will be a new temper tantrum and a different target.

BTW, PM Carney has a de facto majority as it is. And do you actually think Donald Trump understands or cares about the difference between a minority and majority government in a Westminster Parliamentary system? 😆 Completely irrelevant.

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

Trump’s latest unhinged threat to Canada is one part toddler level temper tantrum, and one part $ grift.

My hunch is the Trump organization just got some kind of payoff from Detroit’s Maroun family, who own the competing Ambassador Bridge. They have spent 20 years lobbying against the new bridge to maintain their monopoly on one of the world’s busiest border crossings.

The right response from Canadian government leaders is to ignore the insanity.

Of course if he actually tries to block operation of the Howe Bridge, the Governments of Canada and Michigan as its co-owners should immediately challenge the Administration in US courts.

In the meantime, let’s keep calm and carry on.