The United States will take charge of Venezuela until a “safe, proper and judicious transition” can be guaranteed, President Donald Trump has said, following US military strikes that resulted in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
Trump said American oil companies would be brought in to repair Venezuela’s deteriorating energy infrastructure and generate income for the country, saying its oil industry had been mismanaged for years.
U.S. forces launched coordinated strikes early Saturday, hitting military targets around Caracas before special forces moved in to detain Maduro and his wife, First Lady Cilia Flores. The pair were flown out of the capital by helicopter, transferred to a US naval vessel in the Caribbean, and later taken via the Guantanamo Bay naval base to New York. They were then moved by helicopter to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Maduro and Flores had been indicted in the Southern District of New York on charges including conspiracy to commit narco-terrorism, cocaine importation, and possession of machine guns and destructive devices. Bondi said they would face trial in US courts, while Maduro has previously denied all allegations, accusing Washington of using drug charges as a pretext to remove him and steal Venezuela’s oil reserves.
Venezuela declared a state of national emergency in response, condemning the operation as foreign military aggression. Vice President Delcy Rodríguez said Maduro remained the country’s only legitimate leader, despite Trump claiming discussions were under way with Venezuelan figures about forming an interim governing group. Trump said US officials had been in contact with Rodríguez, who was later named interim president by Venezuela’s Supreme Court, though she publicly rejected Trump’s remarks and reaffirmed loyalty to Maduro.
Trump said Venezuela’s oil sector would be rebuilt under US oversight, noting the country holds an estimated 303 billion barrels of crude, roughly 20 percent of global reserves. He said major US oil companies would invest billions of dollars to repair infrastructure and revive production, but gave few details on how Washington would administer the country during the transition.
International reaction was sharply divided. Russia and China accused the United States of committing an act of armed aggression, while several Latin American countries, including Colombia and Brazil, condemned the strikes. Cuba described the operation as a criminal attack, while Argentina’s president praised the development. US allies adopted a more cautious tone, with the United Kingdom and European leaders calling for a peaceful transition that respects the will of the Venezuelan people and warning against further instability.
The capture of Maduro followed an intensifying pressure campaign by the Trump administration over the past year, including sanctions and expanded US military activity in the region. Washington has described recent strikes as counter-narcotics operations aimed at drug trafficking routes, though experts say Venezuela is primarily a transit country rather than a major producer in the global drug trade.
Any attempt by the U.S. to “take back” assets would be treated as a violation of Venezuelan sovereignty, triggering regional and global backlash.
And is affected by where the U.S.-linked oil assets nationalized under Hugo Chávez were located, and the practical problems the U.S. would face if it ever attempted to bring those assets back under U.S. control.
U.S.-based companies’ assets (e.g., ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips) that were expropriated by the Venezuelan state.
Orinoco Oil Belt (Faja Petrolífera del Orinoco) — a massive heavy‑oil region stretching across Anzoátegui, Monagas, and Guárico states in eastern Venezuela.
Even hypothetically, the challenges these obstacles present are enormous.
No Latin American government — even U.S.-friendly ones — would support a precedent of foreign military or political seizure of nationalized assets.
Providing physical security in remote isolated areas surrounded by regions with criminal groups, colectivos, and guerrilla factions (ELN, FARC dissidents) would be a challenge.
Infrastructure degradation after years of mismanagement under PDVSA the state-owned oil and gas company of Venezuela, responsible for exploration, production, refining, and exporting of oil and natural gas have left facilities lacking in all respects.
International law does not allow a country to forcibly reclaim nationalized assets.
Chávez built nationalization into the ideological identity of the Bolivarian Revolution and even many anti‑Maduro Venezuelans support national ownership of oil.
International Actors Already Involved-Russia, China, and Iran-who would not tolerate U.S. control of assets they consider collateral for loans or strategic footholds.
So a loose approximation of the situation as it is unfolding soon portrays a complex set of moving parts that as they play out may not transpire as some sort of cake walk cut and dry home by Christmas scenario by any means.
SUNDAY WIRE EP 576 – Rogue State: Trump Regime’s Dirty War on Venezuela
https://21stcenturywire.com/
Patrick Henningsen vastly under rated always worth a listen
IDF has been operating in Columbia for the last twenty years
Colombia relied heavily on Israeli weapons, training, and security advisors for decades
This cooperation is political and military support—not IDF troops operating on Colombian soil
There’s no record of IDF units deployed in Colombia in any operational capacity
Nothing to do with drugs one would hope
Like in Afghanistan which was about protecting the Israelie drug trade using NATO
According to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), 84% of the cocaine consumed in the United States originates from Colombia
Which makes Colombia the dominant source country for that specific drug
The US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) reporting confirms that most cocaine entering the U.S. is Colombian in origin
Indeed, and furthermore the US vulture is near bankrupcy. Where will it get te needed cash for it ?
I hope that all BRICS are going to dump massively all US Tbonds in their possession.
Just to speed up its demise
The junkie needs another hit
A shot in the arm
Which is never as good as the last hit
Which soon morphs into reality
But Yes China needs to cut off all US access to rare earth elements intrinsically essential to the Military Industrial Complexity war machine which fuels US imperialist expansion and ambitions to world globalist hegemony takeover and control
Dump US Bonds debt
And stop procuring more in funding what could transpire as being their Own demise
I wish Donny would put the same effort into arresting the epstein Zio pedos. Instead he’s just like all the other lying politicians – doing what he promised not to do, and not doing what he promised to do.
And what was the takeaway from Trumps meeting with Putin in Anchorage?
Nothing
It was all Kabuki Theater
A distraction to the debacle of Trumps involvement and mention in the Epstein files
But Putin had to tag along
Why did Trump kidnap Maduro? Oil, minerals, drugs, voting machines, or was it something even darker that the MSM won’t even mention?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfndnCQQIr4&list=TLPQMDQwMTIwMjaSMxiFlP87eA&index=3
People got no knowledge of history. The Venezuelan economy and society was failing way before Chavez and Maduro came on the scene. US oil vultures like Exxon were looting the country’s oil reserves for vast profits while paying the puppet US friendly goverment at the time. A small group of pro US cronies became mega rich while the vast majority of venezuelans lived in 3rd world poverty and watched their resources being stolen by US oil giants. Chavez was a reaction to this corruption. He nationalised the oil and brought millions out of poverty even under total economic warfare from the US who control all the banking and money streams globally. Venezuelans are not going to let these vultures steal the oil again. Once the initial shock of this is over the US will face a never ending guerilla war in Venezuela and wider Latin America where most, 85% of the population despise US imperialists.
An informed commentator, what a refreshing change! Yes he did, the new Venezuelan government more or less ended illiteracy and homelessness, even UN records support this.
Oil drugs arms
The big three
Follow the money
Trump said American oil companies would be brought in to repair Venezuela’s deteriorating energy infrastructure and generate income for the country, saying its oil industry had been mismanaged for years.
Funny how repair, to me at least, sounds a lot like “Take”.This is the US’s end game but its only a beginning as they have created an incredibly hostile environment, on the ground now, so they might just find ruin waiting for them, sabotaged infrastructure and endless guerrilla warfare, that will quickly cancel out any profits, they might have otherwise made.
Negotiating with Manduro, which was on offer was the smart move but well…….
Agree.
Trump’s ruthless stupidity might lead to “boots on the ground” which will end like Vietnam.
Venezuela’s topography, vegetation, and native hostility, created by centuries of US imperialism and aggression, looks very much like Vietnam.
At the same time he is finding that the USA is now increasingly a pariah within the international community, apart from US polyps like israhell, the YUK and Farce.
U.S. Gulf Coast refineries were built for heavy Venezuelan crude.
U.S. Gulf Coast refineries were not originally built specifically for Venezuelan crude, but over time they were retrofitted and expanded specifically to handle heavy, sour oil like Venezuela’s.
This was absolutely done with Venezuelan crude in mind.
Most major U.S. Gulf Coast refineries were built between the 1930s and 1970s, long before Venezuela became a dominant heavy‑oil exporter.
But starting in the 1980s–2000s, U.S. refiners invested billions to upgrade them.
Video: War, Oil and Narcotics. Trump Accuses Venezuela of Supporting the Drug Trade
https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-war-oil-and-narcotics/5907347
There were no planes on 911
Osama Bin Laden CIA asset real name Tim Osman British Army Who died in a US Military Base Hospital in Pakistan in 2001 from renal failure
https://michelchossudovsky.substack.com/p/911-analysis-osama-bin-laden-september-11-2001
http://www.whale.to/b/alqaeda.html
Tora Bora?
Trump666, winning, winning, winning, White hats in control, ha ha, yep there was a resaon Daddy Kill Shot read out the Snake Poem, now a precedent is set, Prepare yourselves, NZ, Australa, Canada, UK, Greenland, Iceland, etc, The NWO Great Reset 2030, 1x World Military, is coming your way… Trump666 the Leader of the Free World, oh right. Nz, now nearly a murder a day, WHY? White hats in control Nope, small hat, Ba,al hats are for NOW.. Oh, the Term antisemetic meanS AntI Shem. thats it. Full Stop. ps wheres the Epstein files….
Go Trumpy. Just in the Nick of Time before the richest oilfield in the world fell into Chinas grasping hands.