@JoJoFromJerz Would you try to see this from a Venezuelan’s perspective? Do you think she has many other options but to suck up to a toddler?
Let me know. I’ll wait.
@richimedhurst Well, then you’ve never read the news about #Venezuela, or know a single Venezuelan.
Him and his regime are 100% illegitimate. He lost the 2024 election in a landslide, then made up numbers to declare himself the winner.
The winner and legit president is Edmundo Gonzalez.
@ishaantharoor With this tiny-dicked president, it may work. Vance & Rubio are in his cabinet after all they’ve said and done. She’s not desperate for power, her party WON the 2024 election. Maduro’s regime is not legitimate, neither is his VP Delcy Rodriguez. The whole world acknowledges this.
@tify330 It is not ideal, but we’re living in the twilight zone. There’s a humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, with hundreds of people imprisoned and tortured just for expressing their opinion. The person DT endorsed in Vzla, is part of the same oppressive and illegitimate regime.
@meiselasb Hi Ben, it is self-degrading but that’s the only choice she has at this point, after the tiny-dicked president decided to endorse the illegitimate regime instead of the actual winner of the 2024 elections, Edmundo Gonzalez all because she didn’t give him the damn price.
@JoJoFromJerz Hi Jo, I can see why it looks gross to you. It hurts too see her taking this route to appeal to DT, but after seeing the disastrous choice he made of working with the criminal regime by endorsing Delcy Rodriguez, MCM needs to appeal to his fragile ego in hopes of a rectification
This is completely unreported. It is an internal coup. I believe it will very soon become clear that Maduro's vice president Delcy Rodríguez (@delcyrodriguezv) has made a deal with the Americans.
That's why it was possible for the Americans to capture Maduro so easily - Delcy Rodríguez simply betrayed him and made a backroom deal with the Americans that she becomes the new president.
Trump mentioned it explicitly at the press conference just held, but none of the journalists caught it.
This means the regime still holds power—and yes, this may also be the deal Trump has made with Putin. It is NOT regime change.
And there is no democracy. Maduro is out, but the regime remains.
And Delcy Rodríguez's payment: Venezuela's oil goes to Trump and perhaps Putin. The leader of Venezuela's democratic opposition, María Corina Machado @MariaCorinaYA, can forget about returning to Venezuela—and forget about democracy.
It honestly feels rather Vichy-like.
Extraordinary news of the capture of Nicolas Maduro and his wife by U.S. forces. Venezuela’s fate hangs in the balance.
In 2014 I had a rare interview with Maduro in Caracas. Even then he made clear he had little time for the principles of a free and fair democracy.
Reporter: Yesterday, the U.S. seized a ship off the coast of Venezuela. Would you welcome a U.S. military intervention in Venezuela?
María Corina Machado: Look, some people talk about an invasion in Venezuela, the threat of an invasion, and I answer: Venezuela has already been invaded. We have Russian agents. We have Iranian agents. We have terrorist groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas operating freely with the regime’s approval.
We have the Colombian guerrilla and drug cartels controlling 60% of our territory, involved not only in drug trafficking but also in human trafficking and networks of prostitution. This has turned Venezuela into the criminal hub of the Americas.
What sustains the regime is a very powerful, well-funded system of repression. Where does that funding come from? From drug trafficking, the black market in oil, arms trafficking, and human trafficking.
We need to cut those flows. Once that happens and the repression is weakened, it’s over, because violence and terror are all the regime has left. We ask the international community to cut those sources, because the regimes supporting Maduro and the criminal networks have turned Venezuela into a safe haven for their operations across Latin America.
@krassenstein Venezuelans want their freedom, democracy & country back. Almost 90% of them want Maduro and his mob leaders OUT. If oil is what they need to give, that’s fine.
Venezuela has always SOLD oil but since 2000, Chavez & Maduro’s regime has been GIFTING it to Cuba, Russia & China.
@lilianaf523@MariaCorinaYA Excelente su intervención sin duda. Pero aclaremos, los teleprompters se colocan en varios puntos del ámbito visual del orador para que pueda mantener su interacción con la audiencia. Ella estuvo leyendo todo el tiempo.