Turmoil in Venezuela

[Ravenlocke]

Camila

“You should know. It's not that the Acting President is afraid because she's being threatened. No, Venezuela is threatened, all of Venezuela is threatened..

If one day I, as Acting President, have to go to Washington, I will go standing tall, walking, not crawling.”

https://x.com/camilapress/status/2011908935763042498

[norman]

Going Rogue - 55 - CARTEL DE LOS SOLES: Martin Rodil On The Terrorist Regime Running Venezuela
1 hour 42 minutes - Jan 13, 2026



Show notes
Venezuelan Martin Rodil spent almost 20 years investigating the terrorist regime running Venezuela for DEA Special Ops. In this episode of "Going Rogue with Lara Logan," Martin Rodil outlines his two-decade-long efforts with U.S. agencies like the DEA in exposing Venezuela’s “Cartel de los Soles” - a vast criminal enterprise that laundered an estimated $2.7 trillion through oil, gold, and cocaine, while allegedly hijacking democracies and fuelling the global drug trade. Rodil details the cartel's origins in a Cuba-inspired alliance between Venezuela’s regime and Colombia’s FARC, deep Iranian and Chinese involvement, its penetration into U.S. politics and election systems, and the devastating impacts of corruption and narco-terror on Venezuela and the wider hemisphere. The episode also covers the recent U.S. action against Nicolas Maduro, the regime’s remaining power players, and the high human cost inside Venezuela under cartel control.


00:00:00 The Rise of Cartel de los Soles
00:01:13 Introducing Martin Rodale
00:05:28 DOJ or DEA?
00:08:29 Focus on Venezuela
00:10:56 Investigating Chavez & Maduro
00:17:22 What Is Cartel de los Soles?
00:25:23 Military Cartel Structure
00:30:00 Trillions in Criminal Wealth
00:37:34 US Policy & Criminal Networks
00:47:00 Rigging Elections
00:58:39 China’s Hidden Role
01:05:31 Maduro’s Fall—Public Reaction
01:22:08 Life Under a Cartel
01:37:16 Iran, Venezuela & National Security
01:41:04 The Fight Continues

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ol5jUam4mB4

[Ravenlocke]

Max Blumenthal

Nov 16, 2025
Replying to
@SecRubio
and
@StateDept
Will you designate the CIA as a terror org?

Because it was the CIA which created Cartel de los Soles in the early 1990s to ship 22 tons of drugs into the US

Today, the Cartel of the Suns does not exist, it is a fantasy

You’re spinning another WMD fraud

https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1990223860235657271

Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸

Jan 6
🚨🇺🇸🇻🇪 BREAKING: The Justice Dept just DROPPED claim that Venezuela’s ‘Cartel de Los Soles’ is a real group after months of propaganda.

The truth is Cartel de Los Soles was a real group created by the CIA to smuggle drugs & fund the CIA’s Black Budget.

https://x.com/jacksonhinklle/status/2008457052285255915

Decensored News

Jan 6
Replying to
@MaxBlumenthal
Just to document this, here's Trump claiming that Maduro “personally oversaw the vicious cartel known as Cartel de los Soles.”

This was only three days ago, January 3, 2026 — the same day the DOJ released its revised indictment.

https://x.com/decensorednews/status/2008625356169707947

Ron Paul
@RonPaul
·
Jan 6
They did it again.

The Justice Dept. dropped the claim that Venezuela's 'Cartel de los Soles' is an actual group!

Just like the false WMD excuse to invade Iraq.

https://x.com/RonPaul/status/2008628268509827436

Ron Paul
@RonPaul
·
Jan 6
The case against Nicolas Maduro hinged on the Trump Administration's designation of Cartel de los Soles as a terrorist drug organization with Maduro in charge.

The Administration has now admitted there is no such cartel.

The operation looks like not much more than a big payoff to Trump's donors, including "vulture" capitalist Paul Singer who stands to make billions from the operation.

Watch
@RonPaul
&
@DanielLMcAdams
below:

https://x.com/RonPaul/status/2008642526098444799

[Ravenlocke]

WikiLeaks

President Donald Trump has accepted the 2025 Nobel “Peace” Prize from awarded winner María Machado. The fate of the $1.15m monetary award remains outstanding. Will the monetary transfer to Machado be blocked as an unlawful “gross misappropriation,” (as argued in Julian Assange’s legal filing)? Will the Nobel Foundation instead send the $1.15m to Machado’s victims - killed by her incitement of President Trump to war? Or will the money be kept in the Nordic region and sent to the people of Greenland to buy body bags?

https://x.com/wikileaks/status/2011981027594682863

[Ravenlocke]

DD Geopolitics

🇻🇪🇺🇸 Since giving away Nobel Prizes is the trend of the week, it’s worth pointing out one small historical detail.

There has been only one famous historical precedent for a Nobel laureate personally handing their medal to another political figure.

That was Knut Hamsun, the Norwegian Nobel Prize–winning writer, who gave his Nobel Prize medal to Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels.

That’s the list: Machado–Trump. Hamsun–Goebbels.

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/2012288542202909141

[bojancan]

Again Berletić is giving quite disturbing report... very deep report... if you research more... you will find out how he is so correct most of his reporting... lately US administration became the empire of lies... deceit and evil.... so sorry, but it's true!

US Capture and Robbing of Venezuela and Washington's War on the Rest of the World

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=PcD6bGNXh04

President Trump declared the US would “run” Venezuela and that American oil companies would take over energy production in the seized nation.
Beyond a brazen resource grab, the attack on and toppling of Venezuela’s government fits into a much larger global war the US is waging both against the concept of multipolarism and its chief proponents, namely China and Russia.

References:

US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) - 2025 National Drug Threat Assessment (Jul. 2025):
https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/fil...
US White House - PROMISES MADE, PROMISES KEPT: Border Security Achieved in Fewer Than 100 Days (Apr. 2025):
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2...
Roll Call - Press Conference: Donald Trump Discusses the Capture of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela (Jan. 3, 2026):
https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/t...
CNN - Trump says US is taking control of Venezuela’s oil reserves. Here’s what it means (Jan. 4, 2026):
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/03/bu...
Politico - Trump admin sends tough private message to oil companies on Venezuela (Jan. 3, 2026):
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
AA - FACTBOX - Venezuela’s oil wealth: Reserves, output and exports (Dec. 23, 2025):
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/fac....
US Naval War College Review - A Maritime Oil Blockade Against China—Tactically Tempting but Strategically Flawed (2018):
https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cgi...
Irrawaddy - Myanmar Junta Abandons Chinese Pipeline Amid Resistance Attacks (May 2025):
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/war-ag...
NYT - U.S. STRATEGY PLAN CALLS FOR INSURING NO RIVALS DEVELOP (1992):
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/08/wo...
Reuters - US intelligence helps Ukraine target Russian energy infrastructure, FT reports (Oct. 2025):
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/...
NYT - The Separation: Inside the Unraveling U.S.-Ukraine Partnership (Dec. 30, 2025):
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...
NEO - New Year Starts, Same Old US Proxy War Continues (Jan. 3, 2026):
https://journal-neo.su/2026/01/03/new...

[Ravenlocke]

Roi Lopez Rivas

Translated from Spanish
Caracas, Venezuela today, thousands of peasants and farmers marched to demand the release of President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores de Maduro.

https://x.com/RoiLopezRivas/status/2012294880635007292

[Ravenlocke]

Aecio 🇻🇪

Translated from Spanish
The lifting of sanctions on the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) is confirmed

If the US had not done it this way, they would have had to accept oil payments in crypto, yuan, BRICS currencies, rupees, or rubles.

And their little money-printing machine only prints $

https://x.com/AecioEscalante/status/2012342588573987146