Comments on: The US captures Maduro https://thenewneo.com/2026/01/03/the-us-captures-maduro/ A blog about political change, among other things Mon, 05 Jan 2026 06:09:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: TJ https://thenewneo.com/2026/01/03/the-us-captures-maduro/#comment-2836373 Mon, 05 Jan 2026 06:09:25 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=146520#comment-2836373 I’ve gleaned some informed perspective from Fox News expert interviews (while admittedly channel surfing). Gen. Jack Keane and a Heritage Foundation expert from Venezuela among them.

Apparently, the Venezuelan Constitution has a proviso in the event of unforeseen interruption of top leadership. First, the Vice President now controls their government. Second, he or she must declare an election within 45 days.

There are many chess pieces on the chessboard of this country’s domestic politics, including important players yet to surface who haven’t because of fear of reprisals. The above FNC experts also suggest that many fringes of the nation may have and may exercise independent control that differs from the leadership in the Capitol. Fragmenting authority remains a real possibility.

Furthermore, one can well imagine other LatAm nations being called upon to provide security for this broken country — whether later for elections or sooner.

Much remains to be decided. huxley mentions that the Veep has already fled to Russia — this is news I haven’t caught up with, yet.

Many chess pieces, many moves and counter-moves to be settled before things become clear.

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2026/01/03/the-us-captures-maduro/#comment-2836370 Mon, 05 Jan 2026 04:37:55 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=146520#comment-2836370 “…pine boxes…”

“Cuba Govt: 32 Cubans Killed During Maduro Extraction”—
https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/cuba-32-killed-maduro/2026/01/04/id/1240763/

]]> By: R2L https://thenewneo.com/2026/01/03/the-us-captures-maduro/#comment-2836367 Mon, 05 Jan 2026 03:40:02 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=146520#comment-2836367 @ Tom Grey: ” I thought Maduro was going to make a deal with Trump & leave with $100 million. But then Maduro wanted amnesty for some 100 allies.”
Maybe Trump should have said “OK, we will amnesty your 100 allies, but you have to pay them out of the $100M being allocated to you”. Might have dropped to only 10 allies really quickly!

]]> By: Tom Grey https://thenewneo.com/2026/01/03/the-us-captures-maduro/#comment-2836336 Sun, 04 Jan 2026 17:28:46 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=146520#comment-2836336 Maduro was indicted on March 26, 2020.
He held, then rigged, an election in which he lost but claimed he won and kept power. The USA did not recognize him as the legitimate leader, tho he was de facto.
I’m glad he was arrested. Very very glad no Americans died.

I thought Maduro was going to make a deal with Trump & leave with $100 million. But then Maduro wanted amnesty for some 100 allies.

Maybe this is part of a new deal, with none of those 100 allies getting a parachute, neither golden nor cloth. I guess not, but being wrong wouldn’t surprise me.

Fantastic arrested of a bad guy.

Who starts running Venezuela now?
I guess the VP makes a transitional deal with the opposition for new elections, very soon.

https://donsurber.substack.com/p/the-three-hour-war-in-venezuela?utm_source=post-banner&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2026/01/03/the-us-captures-maduro/#comment-2836316 Sun, 04 Jan 2026 08:07:59 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=146520#comment-2836316 Reearching another comment in re Mamdani and NYC, I encountered this post by Bill Whittle from the past, where he discussed some of the origins of the disaster in Venezuela.

The podcast is missing, and I didn’t find it on The Internet Archive.
Check out the Mamdani post today for some similar videos by Whittle.

https://billwhittle2.com/socialism-is-for-suckers-venezuela/
“Since socialists are unwilling or unable to look at what their philosophy does to people, Firewall host Bill Whittle shows us what it is doing to the animals, and asks how the richest person in Venezuela just happens to be the daughter of the socialist former President of that starving country.”

This post covers some of the same territory.
https://archive.org/details/nratv_nr-170317-stinchfield-s01-e54-12pm-oc-vdgm
“Bill Whittle and Grant discuss the problems that arise in countries that have socialistic forms of government such as Venezuela.”

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2026/01/03/the-us-captures-maduro/#comment-2836310 Sun, 04 Jan 2026 07:16:50 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=146520#comment-2836310 I would like to say a word of commendation to all the hundreds of people involved in this operation who did NOT leak its existence to the New York Times.

]]> By: R2L https://thenewneo.com/2026/01/03/the-us-captures-maduro/#comment-2836291 Sun, 04 Jan 2026 03:51:12 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=146520#comment-2836291 Somewhere this evening I saw or heard that Maduro and his wife were running towards their safe room, and actually got to the door, but were captured before they could get “safely” inside.

If the US teams had mocked up the Maduro’s compound for practice tactical exercises (as was done to capture bin Laden) I presume they would have had a contingency for breaching even that safe room.

If there was a $50M reward for the capture of Maduro, I suspect there must be a dozen or more brave Venezuelans who deserve a share of that reward for their contributions of intelligence info.

]]> By: R2L https://thenewneo.com/2026/01/03/the-us-captures-maduro/#comment-2836285 Sun, 04 Jan 2026 03:44:50 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=146520#comment-2836285 Niketas Choniates on January 3, 2026 at 12:01 pm”
“… I think the real risk here is that a Hawaiian judge orders Maduro released,…”

That is an interesting and damning prospect. But this Blaze article suggests some people are beginning to question the wisdom of Trump (and the Executive Branch) being overly accommodating to the excesses of the Judicial branch:
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/the-courts-are-running-the-country-and-trump-is-letting-it-happen
The courts are running the country — and Trump is letting it happen
Daniel Horowitz
December 30, 2025

My general perception was that any two branches working together could end up holding a misbehaving third branch to account, but we may not yet have the Congress needed to help put the Judiciary back into proper balance.

]]> By: Bob Wilson https://thenewneo.com/2026/01/03/the-us-captures-maduro/#comment-2836229 Sat, 03 Jan 2026 23:10:58 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=146520#comment-2836229 The Venezuela opposition leader Maria Machado is impressive. See this video where she explains that the leftists who complain about the United States invading Venezuela, are ignoring that Venezuela has already been invaded by terrorists like Hamas and Hezbolah and the narcotics cartels.

https://x.com/TLNewmanMTL/status/2007435617643241968

]]> By: crasey https://thenewneo.com/2026/01/03/the-us-captures-maduro/#comment-2836225 Sat, 03 Jan 2026 22:15:58 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=146520#comment-2836225 This Frontline interview of LTG Jay Garner from July 2003 about his experience before, during and after his tenure as head of the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance. We’ll soon see whether we’ve applied the lessons learned that he describes. Day one planning, contracting requires appropriations, and restoring communications and essential infrastructure.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/truth/interviews/garner.html

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