Venezuela Oil: US Declares War on 'Narco-Terrorism'

Just complementing the previous post about the hope that people keep. There is no call to create chaos, only demonstrations. Although there is no US presence.Still on the streets, we'll see how everything evolves.

Chavista supporters trust in an agreement to free Maduro in the face of "international pressure"

"Our war is going to be a diplomatic one (...). Because of that global pressure, because of the pressure and mobilization on the streets in Venezuela, we believe that there could be an agreement."

The government's balance sheet also records 112 injured and severe material damage in 463 apartments in the Venezuelan capital. Since the capture of the president, Chavismo has been calling for constant marches and promising not to rest until the couple's return.
 
However, on RT Spanish (I haven't seen it in English yet), this appeared:

Caracas Denies "Secret Talks" Between Diosdado Cabello and the U.S.


January 19, 2026 02:24 GMT

This was their response to the report that Trump Administration officials had allegedly been in talks with the Venezuelan minister months before Washington's aggression against the Bolivarian nation.
Caracas desmiente conversaciones secretas entre Diosdado Cabello y EE.UU.

The Minister of the Interior, Justice and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, in Maiquetía, Venezuela, on March 28, 2025.

The Venezuelan government denied on Sunday that there had been any secret contacts between the Minister of the Interior, Justice and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, and U.S. authorities.

In a statement, the Executive of the Bolivarian Republic categorically rejected "the malicious information published on social media about alleged secret conspiratorial conversations that seek to divide the country's high political command and intend to undermine the prestige and revolutionary integrity of Diosdado Cabello."
 
International agencies fabricate Fake News on behalf of Venezuela

They attack government officials with accusations that try to confuse the population that follows the Bolivarian process firmly

National international agencies fabricate Fake News on behalf against Venezuela
They attack government officials with accusations that try to confuse the population that follows the Bolivarian process firmly

Posted 1 hour ago on January 19, 2026by Randolph BorgesFake news

Caracas, January 19, 2026. The Bolivarian Government of Venezuela denounced on Sunday the execution of a systematic campaign of psychological warfare and the manufacture of Fake News, orchestrated by international news agencies and dirty war laboratories, whose objective is to generate confusion, promote internal division and undermine the institutionality of the Venezuelan state.

Through official channels, the National Executive warned that these actions are not isolated events, but part of a transnational strategy that uses false narratives and anonymous sources to directly attack the key figures of the Bolivarian Revolution.

Denied: Delcy Rodríguez case and the falsification of judicial processes

The Bolivarian government strongly rejected the recent publication by the Associated Press (AP), in which it is intended to link the executive vice president and president, Delcy Rodríguez, with alleged investigations by United States security agencies.

Through the X platform, the official Miraflores account Immediately set a position:

"New version, same "sources" and zero tests. They have already shown that this is not about the false narrative about Venezuela and drug trafficking, but about maintaining the threat against the President (E)."

It was emphasized that these publications lack any legal and evidentiary validity. The Venezuelan State reaffirms that the use of the media to disseminate unfounded accusations is a tool of external political pressure that violates international law.

Denied: Diosdado Cabello and the alleged "secret conversations"

Likewise, the Bolivarian Government denied and repudiated the malicious versions that suggest the existence of alleged "secret conspiratorial conversations" between the first vice president of the PSUV and Minister of Interior Affairs, Justice and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, and the government of the United States.

This opinion matrix, initially promoted by the Reuters agency and replicated on social networks, was described as an invention without real foundation.

The Political High Command assured that these information are part of a psychological warfare laboratory designed to generate uncertainty and look for cracks where there are none. They express their full support for Diosdado Cabello, denouncing that the attack seeks to undermine his prestige and revolutionary integrity.

"We categorically deny the malicious information sought by the division of the Political High Command and aims to undermine the integrity of Diosdado Cabello," the official communication highlighted.

The Bolivarian Government reiterated that the revolutionary leadership is more cohesive than ever. The Political High Command made it clear that there are no hidden agendas or fractures, and that its only priority remains the defense of national sovereignty and the well-being of the Venezuelan people in the face of external aggressions.

An appeal is made to the population and the international community not to echo fake news that only seeks to destabilize the peace achieved in the country.
 
Please excuse what is written here and posted by @Liliea on October 17, 2025, and happened in September, isn't this exactly what is happening now in Venezuela and its political “transition”?...
Yes, effectively, and in a later post #456 I will refer again to the publication where, by that time, the Rodriguez brothers had already taken steps to present themselves to Washington as a “more acceptable” alternative to Nicolás Maduro's regime. This information is then confirmed after Maduro's assault and capture or kidnapping in a Politico publication where the US government CIA intends to pressure him with his bank accounts in Turkey, Doha, and Qatar (and others such as the Dominican Republic and France).

In my personal opinion, it seems obvious to me what the Rodriguez brothers achieved. It was clear to them that Maduro's government was going to fall and that the betrayal was likely to come from that side, which ultimately benefited the most from the situation, at least until now.
That is why I see all this talk of demanding justice or the return of Maduro as more of a charade to maintain stability and control the most difficult element, which is the military high command.
It should be noted that Delcy has been very intelligent and disciplined in her approach to domestic politics, which contrasts sharply with military figures such as Dios Dado Cabello. She also uses Qatar's influence as an intermediary to gain space and time, added to the fact that Trump seems to be very receptive to any suggestion that comes from there.
I see it as a personal strategy to cling to power. If they happen to do something good, it won't be because they are working to genuinely help the Venezuelan people.

I don't quite understand @irjO comment about the author of that article seems that took it down. If it concerns access to the website I can access the Miami Herald link and it looks fine. Here it is again;

Certainly its what is look like.
What will happend to Corina Machado? What is the purpose of the circus to give the Nobel Price to Trump? Did she gave also the monetary price? Or just the medal? And for what exchange?
Corina Machado continues to seek international support with the help of the Venezuelan diaspora and many interested politicians.
And the gift was purely symbolic and political, just the medal without any money.

 
I don't quite understand @irjO comment about the author of that article seems that took it down. If it concerns access to the website I can access the Miami Herald link and it looks fine. Here it is again;
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article312516272.html
Thanks! In the original post, the link there for some reason, when opening it, was showing as an article that not longer was visible (at least for me) but this one works fine.
 
It's funny, it's Trump's artificial intelligence, they say, but the artificial reality we're in, ironically it's not a lie (laughs).

Did Venezuela appear as part of the US in an image posted by Trump?

It's true. The president of the United States, Donald Trump, published on Tuesday, January 19, on his social network a photograph of a meeting with European leaders, but modified with artificial intelligence (AI) to show a map of America in which Venezuela, Greenland and Canada are represented as if they were US territories.

The original photograph was taken in August 2025 in the Oval Office of the White House, during a meeting between Trump and several international leaders.

The real image featured European Union (EU) leaders, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

In the version released by Trump, in the center of the image — between the American president and the European leaders — a map of the American continent was added, in which the flag of the United States extends over Canada, Greenland and Venezuela.

trump-difunde-imagen-trucada-de-venezuela-como-estadounidense-8cdf79fa-focus-min0.28-0.47-120...webp
 
The trial for the attempted kidnapping of Diosdado Cabello continues

Next Thursday, January 29, the trial resumes against eight people accused of planning a kidnapping against the general secretary of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello. The defendants, identified as Luis Villarroel, Carlos Pérez, César Belfort, Daniel Aguilera, Víctor Farías, Francisco Marcano, Enrique Parada and José Cruz, were arrested in April 2020 in the state of Monagas. Since then, their families have expressed concern about the lack of resolution in the criminal process, which has not yet determined their guilt or innocence.

The defendants are being held at the Oriente Penitentiary Center, located in La Pica, Maturín municipality. It should be noted that Gabriel Medina, a ninth defendant, died in prison on August 29, 2021 due to health problems.

The trial has faced multiple interruptions. The first trial began on August 16, 2021, but was stopped on March 28, 2022 due to the rotation of the judge, which forced to restart the trial from scratch. On that occasion, 21 sessions had been held, where 80% of the evidence collected by the Public Prosecutor's Office was presented.
 
Read that on X and it sounded like total propaganda to me.
And for some reason Trump is bragging about it now.
🇺🇸🇻🇪 The US used a “secret weapon” called a Discombobulator during the kidnapping of Maduro, Trump claimed in an interview with The New York Post.

Trump said the device disabled air defenses and Maduro’s security. The term discombobulator can be translated as a “disorientation device.”

“Discombobulator. That’s all I can say, though I’d love to say more. They couldn’t launch their missiles. They had Russian and Chinese missiles, and not one worked. We went in, they pressed the buttons, and nothing happened. They were fully prepared for our attack,” Trump said.


The newspaper suggests Trump was referring to previously reported acoustic weapons.

🐻 There's no way Trump can say that word. No way.

🔴 @DDGeopolitics

They keep doing it but at east pacific side.
From RT News
US BOMBS ‘drug boat’ in Eastern Pacific, KILLS 2
 
In my opinion, this is the weirdest thing in the whole story: How Delcy so promptly accepted to cooperate.

Her attitudes seem a little too lenient, without even trying to resist.

When China and USA started to cooperate, Kissinger told Mao that it's better they cooperate without speaking the same language. The two countries could not just become friends out of nowhere.

It seems Delcy's following the same path, that is, willingly cooperating. Instead of just acting pragmatically.


The operation would have been done if there were not the expectation of Delcy's later cooperation.


How could such an ally just turn away? I imagine she had been mind-controlled or even substituted by a simulacra.

It would be interesting analysing/comparing her behavior and appearance before and after the operations. Teeth, hands, mannerisms, patterns of speech...

The same way Brigitte Macron is analyzed.
 
How could such an ally just turn away?

Maybe because she was never really an ally? Is the left the only political camp where traitors proliferate or high percentages of infiltrators?

People often associate loyalty with "years of knowing each other" well, a double agent also lasts for many years sleeping in your same bed if that's how the plans should be.

An act of betrayal for the "greater good" and to avoid unnecessary mortality?.

So far, only the hypothesis is being handled that Maduro's living room was set on fire while he was dancing tango by himself.

So:
Russia says Venezuela did not know how to use anti-aircraft defenses during Maduro's capture

The Russian ambassador to Venezuela, Sergei Melik-Bagdasarov, said on Monday that Caracas fired two shots with Russian anti-aircraft batteries at US troops during the operation to capture President Nicolas Maduro, but they failed due to lack of training of Venezuelan military personnel.

"Besides having a machine gun in your hands, you have to know how to shoot it," he said in an interview with the Rossia 24 channel.

The diplomat blamed the Venezuelan military for not having "sufficient training" to handle the Russian Iglá anti-aircraft defense systems, which according to him failed during the US military operation on January 3.

He explained that he was informed that "there were at least two shots fired (by Russian defense systems) and both missed their target."

However, Melik-Baghdasarov assured that military cooperation continues, that "it has not been canceled," that Russia continues to fulfill its commitments and that the maintenance of Russian weapons systems in the Latin American country will continue for decades.

BUT!:
Defense Minister assures that every militiaman makes Venezuela an "impregnable homeland"
https://www.swissinfo.ch/spa/ministro-de-defensa-asegura-que-cada-miliciano-hace-de-venezuela-una-"patria-inexpugnable"/90229609

Caracas, 26 Oct.

"It is a territory that has definitely become impregnable, because in each of these spaces there will be a militiaman, a militiaman, with her mission, with her weapon and with her physical space to defend this homeland.",

The minister assured that "if anything" has been developed in "these 10 weeks of preparation it has been, precisely, the Bolivarian Militia," which he described as Venezuela's "strategic weapon."

In addition, he assured that the militiamen "continue their preparation throughout the national territory," today "on the coasts and in the mountains, tomorrow in the rivers and in the savannas" and "wherever it is necessary."

According to official figures, 6.2 million citizens are enlisted in the Militia "as part of the integral defense system."

The South American military is not exactly known for loyalty to their countries. Betrayal, ineptitude, overconfidence or taking advantage of ineptitude for the sake of overconfidence to betray.

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Delcy Rodriguez says "enough is enough" of U.S. orders

"Enough of Washington's orders about politicians in Venezuela," he told a group of oil workers in the city of Puerto La Cruz, during an event broadcast by the state-run Venezolana Television channel.

"Let Venezuelan politics resolve our differences and our internal conflicts. This Republic has paid a very high price for having to face the consequences of fascism and extremism in our country.”

"Let Venezuelan politics resolve our differences and our internal conflicts. This Republic has paid a very high price for having to face the consequences of fascism and extremism in our country.”

She must maintain a firm position of "independence of the country" before the left followers which is a lie because the facts prove the opposite while before the USA she must ensure no more uprising and momentum of the revolution, so in my opinion the revolution is only a placebo effect.

Meanwhile, we have their brother saying things that only denote more internal disunity and that he knew things that he just turned a blind eye to for years which only further fuels the theory that they were definitely the main traitors.


“The main idea ... is that we achieve an increase in oil production. But not so that the real ones are being stolen!…

Rodríguez maintained that in recent years, in addition to the sanctions and the blockade, there were internal factors that hit the industry: “Those who tried to destroy the oil industry from within, the corrupt, also came,” he said. In that context, he pointed out against those who identified themselves as pro-government: "there were ... some corrupt people, who called themselves ’rojo rojito,‘ stole those reales,” and he finished:
“It would have been better if you hadn't said ’rojo rojito' so much and had been a little less of a thief.”
"Rojo-Rojito" or "red - little red" means those who claim to be pure revolutionaries, incorruptible, loyal, revolutionaries among revolutionaries, those who put on the red shirt of the left and are more Chavista than Chavez but in the end it's just that, put on the shirt and do the opposite.
Therefore, Jorge did know very well that people inside the revolution were the corrupt but he himself did not denounce it, he kept silent out of "loyalty". It's the same thing that Jorge Giordani did and that I already published a few threads ago.

He is an accomplice of what he always denounced. Double standards at the convenience of the times, now he measures his own group.

Will they fight corruption now? although what he says makes me think of something like "dare to steal from the USA now".

Shielding himself from the presence of the USA, after so many years saying that all the evil of Venezuela was due to the sanctions, he now admits that apart from the sanctions, the internal decisions did more harm to the country!
The operation would have been done if there were not the expectation of Delcy's later cooperation.

The operation is not over yet, Delcy and those that remain are only useful tools for the time being. They can be eliminated later or negotiate their exile. And people too, we still don't know that another chaos is around the corner for the population.
US plans permanent CIA presence in post-Maduro Venezuela: CNN

The CIA is working discreetly to establish a permanent US presence in Venezuela, so that it can exert its influence on the future of the country, in accordance with Donald Trump's proposals, CNN reported on Tuesday.

"The state imposes its position, but the CIA really exerts influence”

They are being very cautious and exprimentative as well as when they attacked selectively at the beginning of December, testing terrain, defenses, reactions, movements, etc. Meanwhile Maduro was just dancing.

The country is in the absence of chaos but the USA maintains the narrative that there is still "unstable security" so that increases the obvious probability of having an attack up your sleeve in case of emergency.

In addition, Trump is being quite direct, quite graphic and quite morbid warning in time what he will do if they do not comply with his demands.

Presence of the CIA, Delcy again raising the confrontational tone... resistance will precipitate the obvious.
 
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