Spain played a tactically flawless match against a team that looked completely caught off guard. It was a game of chess, and Spain anticipated every move while making all the right ones.
From the hostage crisis to the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut that killed 241 Americans, to the 2016 seizure of U.S. sailors…If history teaches anything, it is this: “Retribution eventually follows provocation.”
Is Cuba next?
#AHORA | 🇻🇪🚨Tras permanecer casi dos años detenido en El Helicoide, el periodista Carlos Julio Rojas rompió el silencio este #20Ene y alzó su voz por quienes aún siguen tras las rejas.
🗣️“No puedo guardar silencio, porque aún quedan centenares de presos políticos”, expresó al exigir justicia y libertad, en un vídeo difundido en sus redes sociales.
“Para que se dé la libertad y la democracia en Venezuela, es necesaria la libertad de todos los presos políticos. Reconciliación y democracia”, reclamó, mencionando especialmente los casos de los defensores de #DDHH Javier Tarazona, Kennedy Tejeda y Eduardo Torres.
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🇺🇸 U.S. Senator @SenRickScott posted a direct message on X targeting Delcy Rodríguez and Diosdado Cabello, calling for the immediate and unconditional release of all political prisoners in Venezuela.
“The clock is running… these innocent people must be freed now.”
All of them.
U.S. officials have quietly warned Venezuela’s strongman Diosdado Cabello to cooperate with Washington’s plan for a “transition” led by interim President Delcy Rodríguez… or risk becoming a target himself, per Reuters.
The irony is hard to miss. Nicolás Maduro says he has “virtually no money,” yet today he appeared in federal court in New York with a high-powered legal team, while public doctors in Venezuela earn just a few dollars a month.
Retired Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, who had served as national security adviser during President Trump's first term, says the capture of Maduro is just the first step in U.S. intervention in Venezuela.
He told @TonyDokoupil, "The point was to bring [Maduro] to justice and to take what is a very complicated first step to replacing the Maduro regime with a legitimate regime."
#Internacional | El número de muertos por la intervención estadounidense asciende a 80, informó The New York Times
Tras el ataque de Estados Unidos a Venezuela, el número de heridos aumentó a 80, entre civiles y militares, según un alto funcionario venezolano citado por The New York Times.
Horas antes, el medio había estimado en al menos 40 el número de fallecidos a causa del ataque al país suramericano, basándose en informaciones preliminares de otro alto funcionario venezolano.
Hasta el momento, el Gobierno Nacional no ha ofrecido cifras oficiales de heridos ni de fallecidos.
#ElUniversal
Bailes públicos de Maduro hicieron que Estados Unidos tomara la decisión de "cumplir sus amenazas", dicen fuentes a The New York Times
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Cuba has for years provided intelligence and security assistance to Caracas, support widely seen as helping Maduro suppress dissent and remain in power.
The high number of Cubans killed during Maduro’s capture lays bare some brutal truths and until Cuba fully withdraws its troops from Venezuela, there can be no real transition.
The praetorian guard meant to “protect” him was only effective against unarmed civilians.
Despite these rulings, the Chávez government delayed, disputed, or refused to pay the amounts ordered, choosing instead to frame the decisions as attacks on national sovereignty rather than honoring them under international law
Knowledge is power.
Under Hugo Chávez, Venezuela nationalized major oil projects and expropriated foreign oil companies. International arbitration courts later ruled that Venezuela owed compensation to several of those companies.