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Venezuelan parliament votes to begin impeachment proceedings against Maduro


Maduro’s mob assaulting the National Assembly session.

Notwithstanding the mob assault the National Assembly decided that Maduro perpetrated a coup and voted a resolution that: Requested intervention of international organizations, and that Maduro shall be impeached for violations of the constitution.

sounds familiar ….
 
U.S. diplomats have injected confusion into next year’s presidential election in Venezuela by applauding the purported inclination of opposition leader Maria Corina Machado and other foes of the Venezuelan government to appeal their bans on running for...

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press

December 15, 2023, 1:48 PM
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Opposition presidential hopeful Maria Corina Machado gives a press conference at her campaign headquarters in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Dec. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

The Associated Press

CARACAS, Venezuela -- The U.S. government injected confusion into next year’s presidential election in Venezuela on Friday by incorrectly suggesting opposition leader Maria Corina Machado had filed an appeal to reverse her ban on running for office.

Machado subsequently sidestepped questions about whether she had been pressured by the Biden administration to appear before Venezuela’s highest court, but she made a veiled criticism of the U.S. comment, saying she wished she had been able to announce her actions herself.
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Maria Corina Machado could maybe be allow to run for the presidency, but her chance to win it are minimal. Next year election is already rigged. No way the Maduro regime will accept defeat.
 
Venezuela says it will continue to deploy nearly 6,000 troops until a British military vessel sent to neighboring Guyana leaves the waters off the coast of the two South American nations

ByMEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press

December 30, 2023, 1:49 PM

MEXICO CITY -- Venezuela said Saturday it will continue to deploy nearly 6,000 troops until a British military vessel sent to neighboring Guyana leaves the waters off the coast of the two South American nations.

In a video posted to X, Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino appeared surrounded by military officers in front of a marked up map of Venezuela and Guyana, a former British colony.

Padrino said the forces are “safeguarding our national sovereignty.”
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Maduro’s regime is using the arrival of the British military ship to militarize the country, with the object to control the outcome of the 2024 presidential election in its favor.
 
Updated 2:11 PM PST, January 28, 2024

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Condemnation of the Venezuelan government for its decision to block the presidential candidacy of an opposition leader strengthened Sunday when the Organization of American States declared the move eliminates any possibility of a free election this year.

The regional body in a statement said the decision announced Friday against María Corina Machado, as well as the recent “prosecution and political imprisonment of opponents,” was evidence the government of President Nicolás Maduro “had no intention of allowing” a clean election. That had been his commitment under a key agreement that earned him some relief from economic sanctions imposed by the United States.
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Maduro’s regime has repudiated the agreement in which Maduro pledged to hold free and fair elections in exchange for sanctions relief by the US government. The US and the Venezuelan opposition have said that banning Machado from running in the election constitutes a repudiation of the deal.
 
Maduro’s regime has repudiated the agreement in which Maduro pledged to hold free and fair elections in exchange for sanctions relief by the US government. The US and the Venezuelan opposition have said that banning Machado from running in the election constitutes a repudiation of the deal.
 
By Mayela Armas and Vivian Sequera

February 26, 2024

CARACAS, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Venezuela's recent abrupt reversal in its nascent rapprochement with the United States and domestic opponents is likely a response to declining support among its traditional base, according to sources close to the ruling party, voters and analysts.

After months of thawing U.S. relations, the administration of President Nicolas Maduro has done a sharp about-face in recent weeks. It shuttered the United Nations' human rights office, the attorney general ordered the arrest of an activist, and the Supreme Court upheld a public office ban levied on the leading opposition candidate in this year's election.

The change may be borne of falling support for Maduro's government, two sources close to the ruling party and several analysts said.
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Maduro’s regime has reverse its approach with the US due to the fact that opinion polls shows that only 25 of people support the regime. Maduro knows that he can’t not allow free elections because he will lose. He will not allow Maria Corina Machado to run and will persecute the political opponents. The election will be rig and the regime will remain in power. The only way to get rid of the regime is by the opposition boycotting the election, calling for a general strike and the people taking to the streets calling for the end of Maduro’s regime.
 
Chavez really made a mess out of a rich, rich country. But they voted for the jerk and now that the populist policies that persuaded the masses are dead, the man that took up the baton is now caught out holding the stick. Now he and the people will pay the price of the foolishness.
No, he didn't. The US did. And Maduro has done a lot wrong also. The poor were in terrible shape before Chavez, and the US has hurt the country a lot as punishment for helping them.
 
Threat to authoritarian leader has led to questions about how far he will go to cling on to power

Joe Daniels in Bogotá and Jesús Abreu in Caracas JULY 13 2024

Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s authoritarian president, has overseen a slow-motion economic collapse, an exodus of millions of people, and escalating oppression during his 11 years in office. But the deeply unpopular leader now faces one of his toughest challenges ahead of elections on July 28 — and she is not even listed on the ballot paper. The banned opposition leader María Corina Machado has helped to secure a commanding lead for her proxy in the race, little-known former diplomat Edmundo González.

That has prompted Maduro to launch a charm offensive to try to win the public over, appearing on TikTok and at rallies with a spry, avuncular persona. The leader who has presided over an economic disaster dances, poses for selfies and sings for his audience. At a campaign rally in a downtrodden Caracas neighbourhood on a balmy afternoon after two merengue singers worked up attendees, Maduro framed the election as a choice between a relatable everyman and a pliant stand-in for the elite. “Do you want a puppet president, who is weak, who can be manipulated and who nobody has heard of?” he asked the crowd, some decked out in the crimson of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela. “Or do you want a president from the barrio [neighbourhood], of the people?” Maduro is seeking a third consecutive term, having inherited power in 2013 from his late populist mentor Hugo Chávez, the founder of the country’s ongoing Bolivarian Revolution, which combines a state-led economy with nationalism. High oil revenues underwrote generous social spending under Chávez, while sinecures were handed to inexperienced loyalists.
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It does not matter that the economy has contracted 75%, and that 7.7 million Venezuelan have fled the country. Maduro knows that he can’t not allow free elections because he will lose. The Maduro regime will stole the election and the military will try to squash any protest. The only way to get rid of the Maduro regime is by most of the people on election day taking to the streets in protest and call for a general strike that would shut down the country
 
By Antonio Maria Delgado
April 21, 2025
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A screengrab from a video obtained from the El Salvador Presidential Press Office shows alleged members of the Venezuelan criminal organization Tren de Aragua, deported by the U.S. government, detained at the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on March 16, 2025. El Salvador Presidential Press Office
A screengrab from a video obtained from the El Salvador Presidential Press Office shows alleged members of the Venezuelan criminal organization Tren de Aragua, deported by the U.S. government, detained at the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on March 16, 2025. El Salvador Presidential Press Office

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele proposed to Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro an exchange of 252 recently deported Venezuelans held in the Central American country for the same number of political prisoners held by Caracas’ socialist regime.

Maduro’s attorney general, Tarek William Saab, dismissed the proposal as “cynical” and demanded proof of life, a comprehensive list of the detained individuals, and detailed information about the judicial status and medical conditions of the Venezuelans deportees held at a notorious Salvadoran mega prison.
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Smart move by Bukele, proposing Maduro to exchange 252 recently deported Venezuelans held in El Salvador for the same number of political prisoners held by Maduro socialist regime, a deal enveloped in diplomacy and shadow. Exchanging criminals for prisoners who are not criminals held in Venezuelan prisons sound good to me.
 
LATIN America | 07-05-2025

Five top aides of Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado escape country after the US helped them foil a siege of Argentina's Embassy in Caracas. where they had been holed up for 15 months.

Five top aides of Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado escaped the country after the US helped them foil a siege of Argentina's Embassy in Caracas where they had been holed up for 15 months.

The group is now on US soil after a “precise operation” to free them, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday evening in a post on X, without elaborating.
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Great news about the escape of aides of Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, with the help of US in a daring operation. The grip of Maduro over Venezuela is starting to unravel.
 
by Arturo McFields, opinion contributor - 08/14/25 9:30 AM ET

Nicolás Maduro, the dictator of Venezuela, is on the ropes.

President Trump has directed the Pentagon to prepare options for the possible use of military force against drug cartels. The Cartel de los Soles, linked to the Venezuelan government, was designated as a foreign terrorist organization. And a $50 million reward — the highest in U.S. history — was announced for the capture of Maduro himself.

The reward on Maduro’s head is not just a random number, but a sign of the weight the Trump administration places on the Chavista tyranny. Numbers matter. The reward for Osama Bin Laden was $25 million and was$30 million for Saddam Hussein’s sons. In the case of Mexican drug lords, “El Chapo” Guzmán reached $5 million and Rafael Caro Quintero $20 million. All of these men were arrested or assassinated. Rewards matter and determine the fate of many terrorists and tyrants.
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With an experienced Latin America hand in Marco Rubio heading the State Department, and an eager congressional partner in Salazar leading the House Foreign Affairs Latin America Subcommittee, Trump has the resources and opportunity to accomplish in Venezuela with the use of military force against the drug cartel The Cartel de los Soles, linked to the Venezuelan government, a regime change. Looks that Maduro regime days are numbered.
 
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