I’m cautiously optimistic that the removal of Maduro by U.S. Special Forces will lead to a much better future for Venezuelans, who have been severely oppressed by communists for over 25 years. The talking points from the usual suspects has been interesting, mostly focused on “there should be no interference from foreign powers in places like Venezuela”. How come they’ve remained silent about such interference from countries other than America?
Mainstream media will never televise this to Canadians. pic.twitter.com/0wX48YZav6
— Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 (@ryangerritsen) January 3, 2026

It appears the snake has another head to remove. The President did say he was prepared to make a second strike.
https://nypost.com/2026/01/03/world-news/venezuelan-vp-appears-to-defy-trump-calls-maduro-only-president-in-fiery-speech/?utm_campaign=iphone_nyp&utm_source=pasteboard_app
She may not even be in Venezuela.
I read that she was taken to Russia.
CBS reported on her trip to Oslo Norway for the Nobel ceremony, CNN reported that she suffered a fractured vertebrae, after the ceremony she spent recovery time not traveling, and though she’s said she wants to return to Vzla she hasn’t yet and a variety of folks saying “don’t return just yet”
Hindustan Times says she’s probs in the Oslo area, X chatter says Russia…
She’s 58 years old, near the time when bones start breaking for all sorts of reasons with the women folk.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/secret-mission-maria-corina-machado-out-of-venezuela/
The above comments are not about Machado.
Who gives a fck what the Leftist Scum Media in Communist Canada thinks or shows?
Sure, elbows up retards and mewling quims do, but they’re dying out, and quickly.
IT has started: the Real New World Order stacking Leftist/Islamist fascists up like cordwood.
So then, she’s describing a Democrat-Socialist’s wet dream taking place in Venezuela … before this mornings raid, err egression.
Good luck getting cooperation from Venezuelans. Funny thing is people don’t like getting invaded. Also good luck convicting Maduro on bogus charges in New York City.
Hopefully, he’ll be tried in Miami. And if so, his goose is cooked.
Why would Maduro be in the drug business when he has likely stolen billions in oil? Doesn’t make a lot of sense. I suspect he tolerated drug smuggling but so did Joe Biden. I expect Venezuela and maybe Russia are going to start convicting a lot of Americans of drug smuggling.
Because he wants to live? He either plays ball with the narcos and other scum like Iran and Chyna, or he is gone. Not a bad deal if you can get it, he was doing fine until yesterday.
With the oil, it’s more that the dysfunction of the government led to most of it staying in the ground as everything fell apart,
Unlocking Venezuela’s full potential of supplying oil would really hurt the countries that are controlling the market now.
There is more to the drug business than making money…..the root of it is to embed drugs into a target country, and use that countries money to destabilize the country.
Yes.
Indeed, the British East India Company (looking at you MI6, and your bastard child the CIA) pretty much perfected this model of subversion as far back as the opium wars in China at least. Trump is in an existential war now with the real Deep State, I love the way he fights multi front, the perturbations in the silver market are giving the City of London fits, and he just removed another of their vigs through the crime in Venezuela. I hope he has hand selected and loyal security, these Euro dynasties will not go quietly. Lincoln, McKinley, and Kennedy will attest. The best hope is that general government incompetence has rendered them less effective, an certainly cutting off the funding through USAID was a masterstroke.
Venezuela’s oil and gas money isn’t enough to cover the bills to pay for their super bloated civil service, their very top heavy military, their continual food imports, to bribe officials, and to control everyone not in on the oil business. The drugs money helps, but doesn’t bring in enough to cover the above expenses either.
95% of their exports by value is petrol, and 82% of the country lives in poverty. It’s not that they “don’t have” the exports, it’s that socialism doesn’t reward excellence in management or for the worker bees to produce anything worth selling…
They have +300 Billion barrels of recoverable oil, yet their systems don’t produce 1 million barrels… it’s not like this is brain surgery.
” I expect Venezuela and maybe Russia are going to start convicting a lot of Americans of drug smuggling.”
And do you think we have a problem with that?
Funny thing: a lot of the Venezuelans call the Chavistas invaders. And we can’t turn the government over at this point, as mentioned above, there is a lot of house cleaning to do until that time.
Does that bother you? I’m so sorry if it does offend — I know it must be hard living with the reality of my country, especially so close to yours.
PS. The Melian Dialogues weren’t real.
Jane, you make good points as to the dark side wanting to hurt the U.S. through drug imports. But a number of commentors mention that Maduto had been receiving Chinese and Russian logistical help in building offensive military infrastructure to be used against the U.S. This latter point has been underreported.
New York is one of the easiest places to get a conviction on a bogus charge, as Donald Trump proved. What’s hard there is to convict a criminal friend of the Democrats, no matter how flagrantly guilty the evil bastard is.
Is Maduro going to be held in the Metropolitan Correctional Center ?
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/2007611292987654596
Will Epstein’s guards be watching him?
Will one of the Dem appointed judges in NYC grant him bail?
Human trafficking is the most lucrative illegal market the last 20 years.
Hopefully, this will start a domino effect of regime change in corrupt Latin American countries. Now that Venezuela has fallen, Cuba’s oil supply will get be cut off, so I give them six months to a year tops. Then either Columbia or Mexico. And it’s not the governments per se that are the problem, it’s the cartels. The drug money has corrupted too many government officials. If they declare war on the cartels and root them out (along with most of the corrupt politicians), the governments may survive. But I have serious doubts that will happen.
Trump’s remarks hinted as much. Columbia is on the shit list for sure, he said so. He offered help to Mexico, but she refused. He also mentioned Canada in the same sentence as Mexico, more like an annoyance that something worth an operation.
Don’t forget Brazil, headed up by a commie regime that stole the last election and imprisoned the main opposition.
Ask our corrupt and stupid Liberal funded MSM this:
Do you want Maduro to be reinstalled?
If not, why not?
Is Hugo Chaves’s daughter ,still the richest Venezuelan?
Of course our Progressives are squawking,they could never get enough of “Hugo” and then the Bus Driver,I noticed they did not give a shit about the starving and displaced citizens.
Any more than they give a damn for Canadians trapped in Homeless squalor.
Seems once again Trump is proving that old wisdom..”You cannot vote your way out of a State of Thuggery”.
I thought it went: You can vote your way to Socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.
Those are distinctions without a difference.
The reason the media is going with this story is that they can’t go with the truth. Venezuela was doing a lot of naughty things and one of them was falling into the orbit of Chyna, keeping Cuba afloat and selling oil to people they shouldn’t have. Illegally. Some say they were the epicenter of the election fraud, and on top of that, the drugs. The media can’t get into that because they have denied all of the above.
I almost forgot. The media is not really talking about the military operation. Get this: The American Forces have just plucked the despot of a narco state in the capital city, on a military base. And they left with him and his wife, under the nose of those Russian air defense systems and whatever else. It appears there were no US losses. The raid on Entebbe doesn’t even come close. That took so much balls, it’s off the scale. Not just the operators, but also those willing to take the heat, political or otherwise. That will make some people reconsider their life choice. I am sitting here with a beer and watching media heads explode.
During a full moon, don’t forget that.
And we used Chinooks.
I think we know why everyone is tossing a tizzy, because it was my country.
Your country, but all the more to be condemned because it was Trumpian.