Tuesday, January 6, 2026

Trump kidnaps Maduro

After months of boat bombings...

Andrea Pitzer:

"U.S. forces attacked Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela, kidnapping Mauro and his wife, Cilia Flores, before flying them out of the country and into the United States. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced existing indictments for the couple in the Southern District of New York. News reports out of Venezuela listed dozens of fatalities from the operation, including some civilians. ... The BBC has reported 32 Cuban officers and intelligence agents were killed, with Cuba having provided Maduro’s personal security detail. Some independent reports suggest two civilians were killed along with security officers. ... The Miami Herald has been reporting since October that backroom negotiations brokered by Qatar had been happening."

Also:

"it seems to be just the first in a potential series of violations of sovereignty the administration is eyeing, from Cuba to Mexico and Greenland. Deputy White House chief of staff and homeland security advisor Stephen Miller, who’s been the principal for some time now on the brutal operations kidnapping and detaining undocumented immigrants (and US citizens), is said to be taking a more “elevated role” overseeing U.S. interests in Venezuela."

Leavitt: "The president was very clear last night. He said he wants to the US acquire Greenland because he feels that if we do not, then it will eventually be acquired or perhaps even hostilely taken over by China or Russia. Perhaps it would be in the best interest of Greenland to be part of the US"

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) January 12, 2026 at 1:28 PM

Also:

"Trump explained this week that oil companies had been tipped off to the operation. While members of Congress were lied to about the operations planned for Venezuela, oil companies had weeks to plan (though whether they are even interested in dealing with the risks of backing Trump’s escapade remains an open question)."

Here's where we are in January 2026, as Marisa Kabas writes in the Handbasket:

"Trump, after weeks of bombing Venezuelan fishing boats, killing more than 100 people, off-handedly admitting a port strike, and openly talking about a lust to escalate the attacks, launched his first large-scale ground attack [early Saturday morning, Jan 3, 2026]. After falling asleep around 4am ET, I woke up hours later to find out the true purpose of the operation: To abduct the country’s president, Nicolas Maduro, and his wife.

In some ways it feels like we’ve entered a theater where the play is already in progress. In the lead-up to past wars, the government made an effort to sell the premise to the American people so that by the time it began, they would understand the alleged purpose and the main players. This time around, though, there was little stage-setting. By the time the public entered the picture, bombs were already dropping on boats, and soon thereafter, on land. Maduro was kidnapped before the vast majority of Americans knew his name, and people were expected to have an understanding of US history with Venezuela and their oil supply (or know that Venezuela even had an oil supply.) And, oh yea, wasn’t there something about drugs?

Now the average American is being forced to work backwards to understand how we ended up bombing a sovereign nation, all while Republicans rubber-stamp the move and corporate-owned media outlets trip over themselves to celebrate the “tactically precise” nature of the illegal operation."

Why Trump treated Venezuela like must-see TV: It was his latest move in a quest to revive monoculture — in his own image, Andi Zeisler, Salon, Jan 7, 2026

Trump to Fox & Friends on the raid that captured Maduro: "I mean, I watched it literally l like I was watching a television show. If you would've seen the speed, the violence -- it was an amazing thing."

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) January 3, 2026 at 9:28 AM

Maduro kidnapped (Forbes)

Trump has contempt for international law and its value system that prohibits the use of force to change external borders. In its place Trump pursues “sheer coercive power” or mobster diplomacy with shakedowns, blackmail and deal-making as the agents of change. www.theguardian.com/law/ng-inter...

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— AuntieU (@umaija.bsky.social) December 25, 2025 at 8:55 AM

"Trump announced the U.S. would 'run' Venezuela until there's a 'safe, proper and judicious transition' - which is Trump-speak for 'indefinitely.'" (Josh Powell, Jan 6, 2026)

Read also: Venezuela: what happens next?: Chaos looms after audacious decapitation of Maduro regime, Seb Kennedy, Energy Flux News, 04 Jan 2026

Read also (paywall): America launches its 250th birthday year by becoming a rogue state: Trump’s illegal war on Venezuela cemented his claim to dictatorship and marked the U.S. as a global pariah. Will Bunch, Jan 4, 2026

Crockett: "Everyone wants to talk about how Maduro was illegitimate. As we sit here on January 6, I do want to be clear: somebody else was trying to be a Maduro of the United States. Somebody else wanted to do the exact same thing. The difference is Maduro was successful."

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) January 6, 2026 at 2:38 PM

Alan McPherson, Prof of History at Temple University and author of A Short History of US Interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean: 'it is “very rare” for US interventions in the region to be followed by “peace, tranquillity, stability and democracy”.' www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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— Nicole Guenther Discenza (@ndiscenza1.bsky.social) January 4, 2026 at 1:47 PM

One of the final House votes of 2025 was a vote on @repmcgovern.bsky.social war powers resolution to bar President Trump from military action against Venezuela without authorization by Congress. All Republicans except Reps. Massie, Bacon, and Marjorie Taylor Greene voted to defeat the measure:

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— Congressman Don Beyer (@beyer.house.gov) January 4, 2026 at 5:09 PM

Here's the War Powers Resolution vote moving forward a resolution "to direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities within or against Venezuela that have not been authorized by Congress." www.senate.gov/legislative/... Here are the Republican senators fine with ending Congress:

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— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) January 8, 2026 at 1:19 PM

Heather Cox Richardson, January 3, 2026:

"Tonight Robbie Gramer and Juan Forero of the Wall Street Journal said the administration is “racing to assemble an interim governing structure for Venezuela” but noted that “[t]he lack of details about what comes next led some U.S. officials to question why there was no detailed plan in place well before deposing Maduro.”

Gramer and Forero noted that Venezuela is twice the size of California and has 28 million people in it, millions of whom continue to support Maduro, whose government remains largely intact. Those supporters include armed cocaine-trafficking groups, some of whom fought as guerillas in Colombia, and an army of more than 100,000 soldiers."

Heather Cox Richardson, January 4, 2026:

"Indeed, if the strikes were a law enforcement operation, officials will need to explain how officers managed to kill so many civilians, as well as members of security forces."

Their lawyers are saying it was a "law enforcement operation" to execute and arrest warrant. But Trump admits it was an attack to "take over" a whole country. The level of lying to Congress here puts Iraqi WMD to shame.

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— Ian Bassin (@ianbassin.bsky.social) January 9, 2026 at 12:54 AM

If it were a law enforcement operation, why would he need a second wave of attacks?

"President Donald Trump said early Friday that he had cancelled a 'previously expected' second wave of attacks on Venezuela due to the country’s cooperation with the United States."
Trump says he has canceled a ‘second wave’ of attacks on Venezuela due to country’s cooperation with US, Jack Guy, Kaanita Iyer, CNN, Jan 9, 2026

Professor Alexander Aviña says the U.S. has historically used Latin America as an “imperial laboratory.”

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— Democracy Now! (@democracynow.org) January 6, 2026 at 9:28 AM

MILLER: The US is using its military to secure our interests unapologetically in our hemisphere. We're a superpower. It's absurd we'd allow a nation in our backyard to become a supplier of resources to our adversaries TAPPER: Sovereign countries shouldn't be able to do what they want? M: *yells*

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) January 5, 2026 at 6:32 PM

“So force is on the table?” is…… NOT the logical or nominally probing question that should have followed from Miller’s utterly unhinged statement.

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— Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) January 5, 2026 at 9:16 PM

"I don't want to say it, bc it'll be controversial... but we're in charge." No, #Trump, 'controversial' is when I say we need to guillotine you for our own national good. But it won't STAY that way if you keep committing #warcrimes. I might not even have to do it, myself 😆 youtu.be/WxX_F6vOVhI?...

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— K. Cook & Cats, Co. (@iamkaymichelle.bsky.social) January 5, 2026 at 6:59 PM

This is what oligarchy looks like.

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— George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) January 5, 2026 at 1:41 PM

BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

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— Owen Jones (@owenjones.bsky.social) January 5, 2026 at 8:19 AM

If the BBC were here on bsky, one could share with them the definition of the word “kidnap”. www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/k...

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— Nick Harkaway (@nickharkaway.com) January 6, 2026 at 2:30 AM

My Briefing to the UN Security Council Regarding US Aggression Against Venezuela The issue before the Council is whether any Member State—by force, coercion, or economic strangulation—has the right to determine Venezuela’s political future or to exercise control over its affairs. Jeffrey D. Sachs, Common Dreams, Jan 5, 2026

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

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— Brandon Friedman (@brandonfriedman.bsky.social) January 5, 2026 at 11:12 AM

WZZM13 story

The Justice Manual states that DOJ personnel should refrain from expressing “Any opinion as to the defendant's guilt, or the possibility of a plea of guilty to the offense charged, or the possibility of a plea to a lesser offense.” bsky.app/profile/anna...

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— Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) January 5, 2026 at 2:35 PM

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

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— derek guy (@dieworkwear.bsky.social) January 5, 2026 at 1:50 AM

Cuba is next? www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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— Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) January 4, 2026 at 3:53 PM

So basically you can break into your neighbor's house, perform a citizen's arrest for their unpaid parking ticket, chain them to the radiator, and set about looting their big screen TV, and when someone asks what you're doing you can say "this is an arrest operation" and that's perfectly legal.

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— Mary Pezzulo (@marypezzulo.bsky.social) January 4, 2026 at 1:38 PM

Chris Murphy: "Clearly this is wildly illegal. This is a president who has been operating illegally since he was sworn in -- stealing from the American people, seizing spending power, now dragging America into a war overseas ... Donald Trump's entire foreign policy is corrupt."

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) January 4, 2026 at 9:47 AM

How excited oil companies will be at this unexpected development!

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— Philip Bump (@pbump.com) January 3, 2026 at 9:47 AM

"Big Oil just cashed in big. By taking over Venezuela, Trump effectively gave America’s biggest oil companies the world’s largest proven oil reserves — estimated at around 303 billion barrels, roughly one-fifth of total global oil reserves.

It’s part of the deal he struck with Big Oil in the 2024 campaign, when it agreed to back him in return for his rolling back environmental regulations.

Big Oil has continued the gusher — contributing to his ballroom, his PAC, and his investments. Ditto Big Tech and AI, Big Crypto, the biggest banks, biggest defense contractors, and so on."

— Robert Reich, Jan 4

WELKER: If the purpose of the operation was to capture Maduro and bring him to justice, why does the US need to take over the Venezuela oil industry? RUBIO: Well, we don't *need* to. We have plenty of oil in the US. We want to see the oil proceeds of the country benefit the people of Venezuela.

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) January 4, 2026 at 10:21 AM

“This Oil will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, as President of the United States of America…”

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— Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) January 6, 2026 at 6:50 PM

Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) December 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM

As a justification for war, Trump claims Venezuela "stole" US oil and infrastructure. That is, of course, a lie. wapo.st/4smUTLL

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— Jeff Goodell (@jeffgoodell.bsky.social) January 3, 2026 at 1:12 PM

WELKER: Is the US at war with Venezuela? MARCO RUBIO: There's not a war. I mean, we're at war against drug trafficking organizations. It's not a war against Venezuela.

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) January 4, 2026 at 10:09 AM

BRENNAN: The president's last envoy to Venezuela, Elliot Abrams, says US oil executives seem to be coming to Mar-a-Lago and whispering about how easy life would be if we just made a deal with the regime once Maduro is gone. Is that what happened here? MARCO RUBIO: No.

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) January 4, 2026 at 10:51 AM

Rob Newman’s genius performance piece ‘A Brief History of Oil’ (on YT, iirc) refers. The US attack on Venezuela is NOT about oil - as I had reckoned - *it’s about the petro-dollar*

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— Talis Kimberley🇪🇺 (@taliskimberley.bsky.social) January 4, 2026 at 8:47 AM

Trump is all about optics and seems to be willing to pay for the oil to extracted and shipped to the US, regardless of market realities. Even if big oil sees through it, he’ll be likely to find people willing to do his bidding amongst independents or wildcatters

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— Magnus Petersen-Paaske (@magnuspaaske.bsky.social) January 4, 2026 at 1:47 PM

Does not inspire confidence!

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— Jonathan Cohn (@jonathancohn.bsky.social) January 4, 2026 at 11:16 AM

Nothing says "strong" like complaining off the record to a Beltway reporter

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— Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) (@kleinman.bsky.social) January 4, 2026 at 10:26 AM

WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize. “If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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— Eric Umansky (@ericumansky.bsky.social) January 4, 2026 at 10:02 PM

congratulations again to the Oslo-based Nobel Peace Prize committee

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— Ketan Joshi (@ketanjoshi.co) January 6, 2026 at 1:14 AM

again: chuck schumer is not being naive here. he's complicit.

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— รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 (@sloanelysbeth.bsky.social) January 3, 2026 at 5:44 PM

Less than 24 hours to pull the mask off

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— David William (@nrvscrcts.bsky.social) January 3, 2026 at 2:38 PM

Colombia braces with alarm after Maduro’s removal in Venezuela by US https://aje.io/oz00ov

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— Al Jazeera English (@aljazeera.com) January 3, 2026 at 10:00 AM

Colombia mobilizes its armed forces amid concern about a potential "massive influx" of refugees fleeing Venezuela after the US attacks. President Gustavo Petro is calling for an emergency session of the UN security council to discuss this"aggression against the sovereignty of Venezuela."

— Steve Herman (@newsguy.bsky.social) January 3, 2026 at 7:54 AM

Trump: "You almost couldn't hold them back. It was like, they wanted to go so badly. And most people would've said, 'I'll take a pass.' I know Charlie would've wanted to go because Charlie is a very brave person."

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) January 3, 2026 at 9:31 AM

Bondi is now parroting Trump's confused talking points: "Don't forget that Maduro emptied his prisons, he emptied insane asylums and let those people come into our country during the last administration, and President Trump stopped it."

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) January 6, 2026 at 4:33 PM

Greenland is happening. Not a joke, not trolling, not a distraction. He has already made up his mind and nobody who matters in the inner circle will try to talk him out of it. Some of them want it precisely because it will destroy NATO. There are no adults in the room. They really mean to do it.

— Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) January 6, 2026 at 3:56 PM

Venezuela raid enriches MAGA billionaire The ouster of Maduro is a financial windfall for a prominent Trump-supporting billionaire, investor Paul Singer. Judd Legum, Popular Information, Jan 05, 2026

UPDATE: Trump relaxes Venezuelan oil embargo, benefiting MAGA billionaire, Judd Legum, Popular Information, Jan 08, 2026

Reuters:

"Caracas and Washington have reached a deal to export up to $2 billion worth of Venezuelan crude to the United States, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday [January 6], a flagship negotiation that would divert supplies from China while helping Venezuela avoid deeper oil production cuts.

The agreement is a strong sign that the Venezuelan government is responding to Trump’s demand that they open up to U.S. oil companies or risk more military intervention. Trump has said he wants interim President Delcy Rodriguez to give the U.S. and private companies “total access” to Venezuela’s oil industry. Venezuela has millions of barrels of oil loaded on tankers and in storage tanks that it has been unable to ship due to a blockade on exports imposed by Trump since mid-December."

Lol how can you tell this administration is lying to you? Because oil hasn't been shipped in actual barrels in over a century www.cnn.com/2026/01/06/b...

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— Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social) January 7, 2026 at 10:47 AM

I mean, the other day Stephen Miller (who may be the same senior official but admittedly there are other possible candidates) said Venezuela was an island. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NiB...

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— emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) January 7, 2026 at 10:50 AM

Also: Turns out the Trump administration accidentally misunderstood a Venezuelan slang term ("cartel de los Soles," slang for drug corruption in the military) to be an *actual* cartel, and then declared that this fake cartel was a terrorist organization led by Maduro www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...

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— Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social) January 7, 2026 at 11:52 AM

Read: CNN's Kaitlan Collins Pulls Out The Receipts On Trump's Venezuela Claims Collins' footage includes recent clips of Trump making threats against several other nations. Curtis M. Wong, HuffPost, Jan 6, 2026

Despite the fact that the world is clearly oversupplied for oil in the coming years, it hasn't put a single dent in enthusiasm for accelerated expansion of new oil projects The idea that this industry operates on a rational or logical basis is itself irrational... productiongap.org/2025report/#...

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— Ketan Joshi (@ketanjoshi.co) January 7, 2026 at 5:48 AM

Read: U.S. Seizes 2 Sanctioned Oil Tankers Linked To Venezuela In North Atlantic And Caribbean: U.S. European Command announced the seizure of the merchant vessel Bella 1 for “violations of U.S. sanctions” in a social medial post. Konstantin Toropin and Jill Lawless, AP, Jan 7, 2026

Will the press continue to keep Trump’s military secrets? The goal is protecting the troops, but secrecy can also protect criminality Mark Jacob, Jan 05, 2026

In ‘Unhinged’ Rant, Miller Says US Has Right to Take Over Any Country For Its Resources The White House adviser offered “a very good definition of imperialism,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. Julia Conley, Common Dreams, Jan 06, 2026

It's time to embrace climate conspiracy: Trump’s Venezuela oil play exposes what climate reporting has documented for decades—if we’re willing to say it out loud. Emily Atkin, HEATED, Jan 07, 2026

The oil is low quality: Trump Boasts Of Confiscated Venezuelan Oil But Neglects To Mention How Nasty It Is: The country’s crude oil is heavy, too thick to flow through a pipeline without dilution, and is filled with corrosive chemicals that can destroy refineries. S.V. Date, HuffPost, Jan 8, 2026

The online betting platform is facing some complaints over a wager on whether the U.S. will invade Venezuela.

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— Forbes (@forbes.com) January 7, 2026 at 8:10 AM

Warren: Trump can round up billions of dollars to invade Venezuela. He can round up billions of dollars for Argentina—but he can’t get there on the front lines to help people afford their health care. He can’t go in there and reduce the cost of housing….

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— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) January 8, 2026 at 12:27 PM

Trump Invites Colombian President To White House Days After Threatening Him Trump said in the wake of the U.S. operation to oust Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro over the weekend that “Colombia is very sick too." Will Weissert, Associated Press, Jan 7, 2026

Trump To Meet With Colombian President Next Month: Trump, following the ouster of Maduro, had made vague threats to take similar action against Colombian President Gustavo Petro. Josh Boak, AP, Jan 9, 2026

US Oil Piracy Continues as Fifth Tanker Tied to Venezuela Seized The US has purloined over $300 million of oil in a month while enforcing a blockade, which UN experts say has “seriously undermined the human rights of the Venezuelan people.” Stephen Prager, Common Dreams, Jan 09, 2026

Venezuela has a ton of oil. It also has something else America needs, John Towfighi, CNN, Jan 11, 2026

How Congress Blew All Their Chances to Stop Trump’s War With Venezuela, “As with most things, it is going to come down to political will within Congress, particularly on the GOP side of the aisle.” Matt Sledge, The Intercept, January 5 2026

The Media Refuses to Call Trump’s Venezuela Attack an Act of War By framing this brazen act of aggression in euphemistic terms, the media is falling in line with Trump. Adam Johnson, The Intercept, January 4 2026

Estimated Cost of Trump Naval Blockade of Venezuela Climbs Toward $1 Billion “US military power is being used as a de facto security force for the president’s corporate donors and their oil interests, leaving the American taxpayer to effectively subsidize a security force for Big Oil.” Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams, Jan 08, 2026

"On his Truth Social platform, Trump posted a mock Wikipedia-style image showing himself as “acting president of Venezuela” as of January 2026."
'WTF': Trump Mocked After Posting 'Completely Insane' New Pic Of Himself: The president has granted himself a new title in another country. Ed Mazza, HuffPost, Jan 12, 2026

Maduro’s Nike Tracksuit and the New Visual Language of Power, Debbie Millman, Time, Jan 7, 2026

Senate GOP shields Trump from limits to his war powers in Venezuela after Vance breaks tie, Morgan Rimmer, Ted Barrett, Manu Raju, CNN, Jan 14, 2026

The US has officially started selling Venezuelan oil, Samantha Delouya, CNN, Jan 14, 2026

The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar. “There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

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— Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) January 14, 2026 at 11:42 PM

U.S. Military Command That Attacked Venezuela Gutted Its Civilian Harm Team: Complaints about civilians killed or injured in the U.S. attack on Venezuela are instead being handled by the Pentagon directly. Nick Turse, The Intercept, January 13 2026

What does U.S. history tell us about what's unfolding in Venezuela? Steve Inskeep, NPR, January 7, 2026

Secretary of State Marco Rubio's promise for the US to sell 30–50 million barrels of Venezuelan oil at “market rates,” with revenue somehow benefiting Venezuelans, is not happening. "The first $250 million contract went to Vitol, the world’s largest independent oil trader, whose senior executive had just written $6 million in checks to put Donald Trump back in the White House. The oil is not going to the Venezuelan people. It is going to a Trump mega-donor. The money is not being held in trust for Caracas. It is flowing through Houston. Whatever you believed about this administration’s intentions in Venezuela, you can stop believing it now." (Powell House Press)

U.S. Forces Seize Seventh Sanctioned Oil Tanker Linked To Venezuela President Donald Trump's efforts to control oil in the South American country continue. Konstantin Toropin and Michael Biesecker, AP, HuffPost, Jan 20, 2026

"The CIA is quietly working to establish a permanent US presence on the ground in Venezuela, spearheading the Trump administration’s plans to exert its newfound influence over the country’s future, according to multiple sources familiar with the planning."
Exclusive: US planning CIA foothold in post-Maduro Venezuela, Zachary Cohen, Jennifer Hansler, Kylie Atwood. CNN, Jan 27, 2026

Trump administration latest: President issues warning to Iran as Rubio testifies before Senate on Venezuela, CNN live blog, January 28, 2026

this is a straightforward impeachable offense for trump, vance, rubio and every other person down the line who enabled it and the framers would have thought impeachment for it did not go nearly far enough

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— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com) January 28, 2026 at 7:44 PM

"...the Trump admin has reached back to the Monroe Doctrine in its most unilateral & belligerent version—an ultranationalist warrant for the complete repudiation of international law..." @alfatau.bsky.social reports on the US's plunder of Venezuela.

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— In These Times (@inthesetimes.com) February 1, 2026 at 5:04 PM

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