Comments on: The leader of Tren de Aragua is no more

By: CICERO

CICERO — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:04:44 +0000

“Today Trump says it will happen tomorrow,” always tomorrow.

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:59:19 +0000

Gringo
Maybe Trump is trying to make the relationship between those security forces which have been corrupted and the cartels. It’s the corrupted guys who’d know what’s going on, and so it must be they switched sides, at least once. Now what?

By: Another Mike

Another Mike — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:46:29 +0000

@Gringo– You just may not hear anything for a while, and then an announcement of his demise will appear. It does no good to broadcast beforehand what you intend to do. “Loose lips sink ships” and all that rot….

By: Chris B

Chris B — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:46:14 +0000

For anyone who wants to keep current with what’s going on in Venezuela caracaschronicles.com is a great resource.

By: Gringo

Gringo — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:57:04 +0000

The strike happened earlier this week alongside Venezuelan security forces, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday.

The Venezuelan blogs I used to read repeatedly stated that Venezuelan Armed Forces took a service fee from drug smuggling ops. Which made sense to me.
You could trust Venezuelan security forces? 🙂

Before Maduro got taken out, US Armed Forces sunk a number of drug-running boats (and submarines?). My question: have they still been taking out drug-running boats (submarines?) after Maduro was sent to the US?

Diosdado Cabello, one of the top honchos in the Maduro & Chavez administrations, is linked to the Cartel de Soles. I have not heard about anything being done to take him away.

By: Niketas Choniates

Niketas Choniates — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:39:27 +0000

So much has been going on lately that it’s easy to forget the developments in Venezuela that began with the arrest of Maduro.

The online world can only keep a couple of things in its collective mind at one time. That doesn’t mean nothing else is going on. It’s a common refrain, “Trump isn’t getting X done because he’s distracted by Y”, as though the entire apparatus of government stands around doing nothing except waiting for his next instruction. A good reminder that this view of events is false, and it’s created by how we consume news, not by the actual events themselves.

I never hear anyone on our side of the fence talk this way about Elon Musk, for example. I never hear that a Space X booster blew up because he was distracted by a Tesla recall, or that there had to be a Tesla recall because Musk was distracted by Space X. We have no trouble with the concept that men at the heads of large organizations can set goals and directions that will be carried out by others without the need of his personal attention at every point. Why is this so hard with Trump? We knew Biden wasn’t in charge of anything and yet things happened.

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:36:26 +0000

Sort of getting to be like Mossad We know where and when and can take you out whenever we feel like it. And you have no idea whatsoever that you are on our radar screen. Which must be unnerving. And whatever internal steps are taken to break any chain of following information must incur at least some reduced efficiency in operations. And afterwards, there may be a wholesale purge of possible suspects, evidence not necessarily necessary, which would reduce internal efficiency even further.
Then there’s the fussing about who’s next in charge, who kills whom in the process.
Spreading effects.