Carmen Virginia Grisolía

Designer of things. Tweeting once a day For 1 year. I tweet about music, books, movies, design or whatever comes to my head. En español or in english.

[Alex_TVzla @at_tvzla]

The corruption scandal rocking Spain’s socialist government leads straight back to Venezuela…

[CHEMA PONZE @Chema_Ponze]

La IA tarda unos pocos segundos en crear una imagen, mientras que yo como ilustrador tradicional tardo varias horas en dibujarlas.
Estas son algunas de mis últimas obras.
¿Te apetece compartirlas por si alguien se anima a que pueda dibujar para él/ella?
¡Muchas gracias!
#art

[CHEMA PONZE @Chema_Ponze]

Me llamo Chema y soy un dibujante tradicional que trabaja a mano.
Desde que llegó la IA tengo menos trabajo, pero yo seguiré aquí.
Si me ayudas con un 🔄 o ❤️ para que más personas me elijan antes que a una máquina para sus encargos, Sarah Connor y yo te lo agradeceremos!
#art

[Walter Molina @WalterVMG]

A usted puede no agradarle María Corina Machado. Incluso puede estar en contra de muchas de sus propuestas para el futuro del país, lo cual no solo es válido sino necesario, pues el debate será imprescindible para que todo lo que se haga sea lo mejor posible para reconstruir nuestra destruida República.

Del mismo modo, puede no sentir ningún tipo de simpatía por Donald Trump. No importa cuáles sean sus razones; eso debe respetarse, aun cuando no se comparta.

El punto es que hoy nos jugamos algo mucho más elemental: lograr la libertad o no. Y si esta vez, estando más cerca que nunca, no lo conseguimos, no sé cuándo volveremos a tener una oportunidad similar. Probablemente no en muchísimo tiempo. Por eso no tiene sentido dirigir los ataques contra la líder del país y contra el aliado más importante que hemos tenido jamás. Al menos no lo tiene si lo más importante para usted es la libertad de Venezuela.

Esto no implica renunciar a la crítica ni dejar de dudar. Critique. Dude. Pero entienda lo que estamos enfrentando: la barbarie absoluta. Y para vencer a la barbarie hay que jugar en equipo. Este equipo es casi la totalidad del país, salvo unos pocos que aún se resisten al cambio, a la democracia, a una nueva Venezuela.

Si hoy podemos hablar de transición y de la posibilidad real de rescatar la democracia, es gracias a todo lo ocurrido para llegar al 28J y a lo sucedido hace exactamente un mes, el 3 de enero. Ambos hitos tienen rostros inapelables: los de quienes se reunieron en el Salón Oval de la Casa Blanca el 15 de enero. No hay otros.

Hay que terminar de romper el muro. No hay nada más importante ahora mismo. Luego, el país se reconstruirá sobre la base de la democracia, que necesita consensos y disensos. Debate de ideas. Pero hoy no podemos autosabotearnos. Es un error que puede pagarse caro.

[Luis Carlos 🏴‍☠️ One Piece @LuisCarlos]

Por supuesto que en Sabadell no le consultaron a los venezolanos. ¿Por qué? ¿Cómo? ¿Para qué?

[Walter Molina @WalterVMG]

Lo que ha ocurrido (y lo que se ha escrito) durante los últimos días responde más a causalidades que a casualidades. Y todas ellas pueden aprovecharse para intentar redirigir lo que está ocurriendo en Venezuela hacia una transición democrática. Una real. Para Estados Unidos y otros, puede representar una oportunidad de negocio rentable y duradera; para nosotros, lo es todo. Repasemos brevemente:

El 9 de enero, Donald Trump se reunió con altos ejecutivos de las principales empresas petroleras estadounidenses. Esa reunión, perfectamente descrita por @nachomdeo, dejó claro que el chavismo es la barbarie absoluta (por si aún hacía falta confirmarlo). El chavismo en su totalidad: desde Hugo Chávez, pasando por Nicolás Maduro, hasta lo que hoy representan los hermanos Rodríguez, que no son garantía de estabilidad ni de respeto a las empresas.

Por eso se necesita una tutela. Y allí está el punto central del asunto: Estados Unidos no puede, ni debe, manejarlo todo eternamente. Necesita dejarlo en manos de gente capaz, confiable y con legitimidad. Sí, esa misma. Y, más importante todavía en este caso, las empresas petroleras (y todas las demás) lo saben.

No es porque “necesiten” democracia: es porque el chavismo no sirve, ni servirá. Si mañana Estados Unidos retira ese tutelaje, el régimen volverá a su cauce natural, porque eso es lo que es. Lo que dijo el representante de Exxon fue clarísimo y, aunque no cayó bien en la administración Trump, pegó duro. Muy duro.

[Luis Carlos 🏴‍☠️ One Piece @LuisCarlos]

Cuando el chavismo roba elecciones, ilegaliza a la oposición real, persigue, detiene, desaparece, tortura, encarcela a extranjeros, electrocuta niños, viola prisioneros, asesina militares críticos, contrata cubanos y coopera con otras dictaduras:
También lo hace por el petróleo.

[Germania Rodriguez Poleo @iamGermania]

Indefensible how the New York Times continues spreading misinformation in order to keep access to the Venezuelan brutal regime. They continue pushing Delcy as a moderate and focusing on her great education. Yet This piece omits Delcy’s role as head of the Sebin, one of the regime’s torture forces. No mention of her major role in the criminal gold mining operation in the Amazon or how entrenched she is in Venezuela’s decline into a mafia state. Negligent reporting at a crucial hour yet again from the New York Times https://t.co/AaWqXozQWJ

[Alejandra Oraa @alejandraoraa]

Sé que entre muchos venezolanos se ha generado una profunda frustración al ver cómo los medios en inglés han contado lo que está pasando en Venezuela. Por eso decidí hacer este video: para explicar por qué muchos venezolanos están a favor de una intervención de Estados Unidos en el país.

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

Sentiments of Venezuelans

I’m going to say this once, and I don’t care if it makes people uncomfortable.

If you have never lived in Venezuela
If you did not grow up there
If you did not watch your country collapse in real time
If you did not stand in food lines
If you did not watch your parents lose everything they built
If you did not have to leave your home with nothing

Then shut the fuck up.

You do not have an opinion.
Your opinion does not matter.
And you don’t get to lecture anyone about what’s happening there.

I’m Venezuelan.
I lived there most of my life until my early twenties.
I watched my country go from a functioning democracy to full blown socialism right in front of my eyes.

This is not politics to me.
This is trauma.

Before socialism, Venezuela was not perfect, but it worked.
There was trade.
There was money coming in.
There was investment from the US.
There were jobs.
There was food.
There was medicine.

My family had five businesses.
We had our home
We had investments.
We had a future.

Then the government started nationalizing everything.
Private companies were taken.
Foreign investors were pushed out.
Imports were blocked.
Price controls destroyed production.
Corruption exploded.

And everything died.

Not slowly.
Violently.

People didn’t suddenly become poor because of “capitalism” or “the US” or whatever bullshit slogan people like to repeat online.

They became poor because socialism destroyed incentives, destroyed production, destroyed trust, and destroyed hope.

People today in Venezuela are not debating ideology.
They are trying to survive.

They are trying to find food.
Trying to find medication.
Trying to keep their families alive.

So when I see people in the West posting from comfortable homes, full fridges, stable currencies, and safe streets talking about “imperialism” or “US bad” or “Trump this or that”

No.
It’s not complicated.
You’re just ignorant.

China is not rebuilding Venezuela.
Russia is not rebuilding Venezuela.
Cartels are not rebuilding Venezuela.

They are stealing.
They are extracting.
They are draining what’s left.

If the US comes in and reinvests
If refineries get rebuilt
If infrastructure gets restored
If imports open back up
If food, water, and medicine become accessible again
If people can work and earn with dignity

Then yes.
Let them take all the oil they want.

Because at least something gets built instead of destroyed.

This is something to celebrate.
Not because it’s perfect.
But because for the first time in a long time, there is hope.

Hope that families can eat.
Hope that people don’t have to flee their country.
Hope that Venezuela can function again.

If you’ve never lived through a country collapsing
If you’ve never watched socialism destroy everything around you
If you’ve never had to leave your home because staying meant starvation

Then again
Shut the fuck up.

This isn’t theory.
This isn’t politics.
This is lived experience.

By Stephen Subero

[Luis Carlos 🏴‍☠️ One Piece @LuisCarlos]

What is happening in Venezuela?
To my English speaking friends
Paola Romero. Philosopher. / 6 January 2026

[First: thank you for taking an interest in Venezuela, and for having a personal concern for me for my family. My relatives back home are safe.]

For 26 years, Venezuelans have exhausted all democratic and non-violent means to oust the Maduro regime. I cannot hammer this enough. It is from this struggle that we are judging current affairs. And personally, I judge what is happening thinking of my friend Jesus, my university Professor Rocio, and many others I’ve met along the way, how are in prison and have been isolated for more than a year. In short, as I write this, I don’t know if they are alive or dead.

In this sense, the extraction of Maduro is something we celebrate, like drinking a bitter drink: we knew and know that an American-led extraction would bring new, unforeseen problems, but we also knew that we were unable to bring down a dictatorship without force. This is the crux of our conundrum, our source of celebration and worry. Our existential contradiction.

The oil
The idea that the US “is only in for the oil” should be unpacked. Yes, Trump is carving a new world order, on the assumption that America has to recover and oversee control over the Hemisphere. Yet, the idea that Venezuela was an independent, sovereign country, and that the Americans are coming in to take what is ours is WRONG: Venezuela has been invaded and controlled by foreign interests for two decades. China is the major beneficiary of our oil and most importantly our rare earth minerals. The latter are basic for the AI race. Cuba infiltrated our military, so true that 32 Cuban soldiers died in the Maduro extraction operation - he could only trust them. When the US says that they are going to get back the oil Venezuela took from them, they are referring to the debt Venezuela has to American oil companies, due to the mismanagement on the part of ‘chavismo ‘ of the oil industry. The idea that we are little lambs and the wolf is coming to take what is ours is wrong: it was Chavez, and then Maduro and his followers ,who are responsible for looting of our national reserves.

Does this mean Americans won’t do the same? That’s to be seen Before the catastrophic collapse of our oil industry, American paid well, timely and in cash. That paid for the public university I went to, the roads we transit and the preferential oil-dollars that paid for my Masters. We are the result of those golden years of high oil prices. In short, there is nothing morally wrong or politically evil in the fact that we have, and will keep living from selling our oil to the world. The problem is that chavismo, having for a decade the highest ever oil revenues in our modern history, decided to put it in their pockets. The difference this time, we hope, is that the revenue of that public good will be managed by COMPETENT people and under the RULE OF LAW. This is the crux that the extraction of Maduro and a chavismo-led transition presents. Are we heading, step by step, to a more stable and legitimate political system? I cannot answer that right now.

Can good governance, ran by VENEZUELANS and a competitive oil industry, with strong ties to the US, be achieved?

The “transition”
This leads me to the ongoing, minute by minute development of the so called “transition”.

The US has bet on giving chavismo a “chance”, after the extraction of Maduro. There was no way Maria Corina Machado, our leader in hiding and now in exile, could take the reins during this uncertain, fraught and unprecedented period. Venezuela is a mafia state, ruled by the military. Maria Corina, in my opinion, does not have sufficient influence or contact with the illegitimate structures of the regime. That doesn’t make her weak: quite the opposite! It’s been her uncompromising leadership and relentless condemnation of the dictatorship that won her the hearts and votes of Venezuelans. But our votes and the democratic will of the people do not seem to be a currency with enough value to secure us a place in the negotiating table taking place right now. Our present tragedy is that, for the time being, we Venezuelans, the civil society, the democratic opposition, have been left out of the political fight between the two powers, the US and the de facto regime. Partly because our political leaders are either in prison, in hiding or in exile. Partly because the US wanted to guarantee there wouldn’t be military coups following the extraction (for that, they needed to keep parts of the regime in place), partly because Trump personally doesn’t trust the opposition at this very moment and given the high stakes, to be capable of governing. The political value of venezuela’s civil society longing for good governance is a “weak” currency in the table of real politik.

Am I angry? Yes. Does this mean we will never seat on the table? No. Our democratic currency might gain value along the way. Americans need stability domestically to further their economic interest. That’s when we might be useful.

Real politik
In this sense, the Americans are playing real politic, and has assumed those in power as the ones who hold the de facto reigns. This, I think, is a good thing: if Maria Corina was placed in the spotlight to lead the transition, we would have to deal with the “she’s a puppet of Trump” narrative, which would have done huge damage to her. I personally think that it’s better she’s still in hiding.

Delcy Rodirguez, Maduro’s vice president (and a fervent communist), in less than 48 hours has gone from saying they will defend Maduro and fight against `American imperialism’, to saying that they want to cooperate in good faith with the US.

Will they stay for long? Will the chavismo of the transition abide to the requirement of the US? Can their long-held anti imperialism and hated to the US be redressed? They are evil, astute, immoral. But they have an Aquiles heal: they’re ideological and resentful. So I have an instinct, a hunch, that they will not behave as the Americans want them to.

In short, talk of regime change, interventionism, sovereignty, etc seem to me to be old, pre Trump vocabulary that needs to be reinvented to properly understand and analyse what is going on in Venezuela. We are facing an unprecedented situation, that will possibly repeat itself in other parts of this new geo political order that is unfolding. In this sense, Venezuela is a micro experiment and a central piece in the world of powers that are after resources (mainly minerals) in the world of data centres, AI, energy independence and drone warfare. Do I like that world? Do I fear it? That’s nor here nor there. What amazes me is how many people are suddenly very offended and concerned about what is happening in Venezuela, but who never worried about our political prisoners, the loss of our political rights, the looting from the part of chavismo, the days without electricity and the hunger Venezuelans faced in the last 15 years. Why so worried now? We are sadden to see how the Trump hate is bigger and so powerful that overrides the real worry: that Venezuelans have been fighting for their freedom for years, alone, without arms, without resources.

What’s next?
Am I worried? I am cautiously optimistic. I don’t care if America has good intentions regarding Venezuela: they have economics and political interest. That doesn’t mean that our interests cannot align with theirs. The US needs some minimal political stability in Venezuela to guarantee its own economics plans. Those minimal conditions (rule of law, competitive markets, the recovery of the oil industry, etc) are, from the point of view of Venezuelans, conditions we haven’t had and have longed for for 25 years. The issue, for us, is not “they are going to take our oil”: our oil has already been taken, misused, and the industry destroyed. The issue for us is recovering a minimal set of constitutional rights and to be able to participate and I am sure win!) elections that will lead to our political participation in leading the country: to finally have a go! This will have a cost.

[Kiko Llaneras @kikollan]

✨ The world isn't getting worse. It's getting better.

It's not perfect—not even a good place. But of all the global scenarios we've actually known (not imagined or wished for), this is the best.

44 facts to start 2026 with optimism👇

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

"At the heart of the battle for democracy shines a simple truth: Democracy is more than a form of government. It is also the basis for lasting peace.

Millions of Venezuelans know this. Year after year, students, trade unions, journalists, business groups and ordinary citizens have mobilised in waves of resistance.

They have filled the streets in protest. When their votes were taken away, they banged pots and pans. When state surveillance is inescapable, they whisper.

People across the political spectrum – from communists to conservatives – have risen to challenge the regime. The opposition has tried one strategy after another.
Through it all, they have said: We strive not for revenge, but for justice. For the sanctity of the ballot box. For democracy. For peace."

Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, spoke at the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony today in Oslo, Norway.

Democracy – understood as the right to freely express one’s opinion, to cast one’s vote and to be represented in elective government – is the foundation of peace both within countries and between countries. Yet democracy is increasingly under threat around the world. Venezuelan opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado receives the Nobel Peace Prize today for her efforts to advance democracy in Venezuela.

Watch the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony: https://t.co/JOZIim5Zyd

[CHEMA PONZE @Chema_Ponze]

Me llamo Chema y soy dibujante tradicional. Desde que llegó la IA casi no tengo trabajo, pero yo seguiré dibujando hasta que no pueda.
¿Me ayudas a difundir mi trabajo? Por cada retuit ayudas a difundir el arte generado por las personas y Skynet pierde una batalla. ¡Gracias!

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

“Oh my god… I have no words.”

Listen to the emotional moment this year’s laureate Maria Corina Machado finds out she has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Kristian Berg Harpviken, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, shared the news with her directly before it was announced to the world.

#NobelPrize #NobelPeacePrize

[CHEMA PONZE @Chema_Ponze]

Ahí van algunos de mis últimos trabajos, espero que os gusten y si los queréis compartir me viene muy bien que lo vean otras personas!
#art #Robocop #SpiderMan #Jaws

[XENO426 🎥🎬🍿(Universo Alien & Predator 🇪🇸) @XENO426REAL]

XENO-HILO 🧵👽 sobre...

"COMPONENTE Z-01" o el "FUEGO DE PROMETEO"
¿El líquido negro es una Semilla creadora de mundos o arma biológica?

(CANON: PROMETHEUS, COVENANT, ROMULUS)

Si os gusta dejad vuestro like, comentad y compartid, GRACIAS ❤️

#AlienEarth #Alien #AlienRomulus #Aliens

[Christopher Lloyd @DocBrownLloyd]

Great Scott! 40 years? Please confirm this is the year 2025…?

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

BACK TO THE FUTURE was released 40 years ago today. One of the most beloved movies of the 1980s, and the film that made Michael J. Fox a movie star, the behind the scenes story is pretty heavy…

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[CHEMA PONZE @Chema_Ponze]

¡Buenos días y feliz miércoles!
Ya estamos en julio y yo sigo dibujando sin parar, buen momento para recordaros que hago todo tipo de trabajos a mano: mascotas, retratos, carteles de cine, cómic..
Si tienes una idea escríbeme un DM y si me haces RT me haces feliz, gracias!😘
#art