CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — At least seven explosions and low-flying aircraft were heard around 2 a.m. local time Saturday in Venezuela’s capital, Caracas. The government accused the United States of attacking civilian and military installations in multiple states.
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Venezuela’s government, in the statement, called on its supporters to take to the streets.
“People to the streets!” the statement said. “The Bolivarian Government calls on all social and political forces in the country to activate mobilization plans and repudiate this imperialist attack.”
The statement added that President Nicolás Maduro had “ordered all national defense plans to be implemented” and declared “a state of external disturbance.” That state of emergency gives him the power to suspend people’s rights and expand the role of the armed forces.
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Maduro and Trump are friends
Maduro gets to escape his country and save face instead of being assassinated or executed.
Trump gets to manufacture a conflict so he can start martial law and become a dictator
Maduro has been literally kidnapped and his country bombed, are you out of your fucking mind? What’s the deal with conspiracy theories in fucking Lemmy?
Goddamn war criminals and a country full of pathetic cowards who are too weak to put a stop to their criminal mafia regime. Absolutely disgusting!
Hopefully Venezuela can finally recall all of their nuclear engineers and astronauts that came to our countries to increase the crime with their Caribbean vibes
Some of us are votinf progressive and protesting/boycotting at every opportunity while still trying to make a wage to live on so I dont really appreciate the global hate. I get it, but I dont appreciate it.
You’re literally not doing enough.
At some point we will have to pick up pitchforks.
Unfortunately, I’m afraid that this point will never come - and that’s why I’m pissed off. I don’t think anyone can complain about that, because you are represented by a criminal, a rapist even.
In fact, I think you should see that something is being done as soon as possible, because it is obvious that your regime is in the process of establishing a totalitarian state - and then you will have to reckon with repressive measures like in Russia. Why do you think ICE has a budget that corresponds to the military spending of a medium-sized country? Well, it’s obviously a secret police force that will soon no longer be harassing only foreigners.
I’m sorry to be so blunt, but no one other than the US citizens themselves can eliminate this plague, because you have an invincible army and nuclear weapons - all in the hands of that orange monster and his ruthless henchmen.
you are represented by a criminal, a rapist even.
And a pedophile. And a murderer. And he pees and poops himself.
Yes, unfortunately, it is hardly possible to list everything that disqualifies this inhuman being, so I have limited myself to criminal and rapists. Oh, what about the more than $400 million he still owes the state of New York for massive financial fraud, for which he should have gone to prison for decades? Never mind, I’m getting carried away again with details of his criminal career…
As a matter of fact, it turns out that it is NOT impossible, it just takes a long time to say:
Granted, that one and its twin list only cover trump’s two terms in office, but it’s a start.
I just wonder what else it will take for your obviously criminal president to be removed from office.
I mean, you are ruled by organized crime: the state not only protects a pedophile ring, but makes it possible in the first place; you invade sovereign states; your elite enriches itself to an unprecedented extent at the expense of the citizens; and masked thugs roam the country, randomly attacking people with the wrong skin color. And these are just some of the completely obvious crimes committed by your government.
I realize that there are many opponents of this regime, but the fact remains: your pedophile president and his henchmen are getting away with whatever they do because there is no serious resistance, such as a general strike. Individual days when people take to the streets will not be enough to put an end to this, because your media is controlled by those who have been shamelessly exploiting your people for a long time. And yet: US citizens are putting up with it – I don’t even want to imagine what it will take for Americans to finally throw off their yoke.
I’m sorry to have to say it in such broad terms, and I am aware that there is resistance, but your regime not only exploits US citizens, it is a danger to the entire world.
We are nation of laws, and we still have a few legal steps to go through, including the 2026 Midterm election, and the 2028 election. Both of those elections give the Democrats the legal authority to take back America. If they do, hopefully they act decisively, and don’t totally squander the opportunity, like Biden did, destroying his legacy.
If MAGA prevents those elections, or refuses to recognize the results, then they have gone off-Constitution, and it’s on. When it becomes clear to citizens that MAGA has fully rejected any pretense of honoring or respecting the law, Democracy, and the Constitution, there WILL be serious repercussions, almost certainly violent.
There is a 50-50 chance that we get out of this through elections, IF Dems actually use their elected power to fully crush MAGA mercilessly. If they don’t, then it will take violence, and that will come eventually and inevitably.
Well, that remains to be seen. To be honest, I can’t imagine anyone being prosecuted for their crimes, even with the best will in the world. I’m not a U.S. citizen, but from a distance, it looks to me as if your systems are infiltrated to a degree that they no longer function properly - starting with the fact that the Democrats are merely the lesser of two evils, to the fact that your law enforcement system, even under their control, actively protects child molesters, if not actually empowering them to commit their crimes, to the fact that your highest legal authority, the Supreme Court, is so obviously corrupt that it places the president above the law in a supposedly democratic country, which is completely incompatible with any democratic constitution.
Of course, I’m rooting for you, but I think it’s naive to put your faith in a system that has proven time and again that it represents the interests of the powerful rather than those of the people. The proof of this is the fact that large sections of the population in the richest country in the world have to live as if they were in a third world country - for a European like me, it is incomprehensible how one can not only allow this, but also approve of it.
Edit: Just to illustrate what I mean: if your legal system worked even halfway properly, your president would have gone to prison long before he became president - he has committed so many serious crimes that it is more than telling that he was not already sentenced to life imprisonment in the 1990s.
The Dems blew it badly during the Biden administration, and they either learned their lesson, or they didn’t. They better have learned their lesson, because they only have the next two elections to turn this around, and if they don’t, then America is finished.
I’m always hoping for the best, but if we keep going in the same direction, with the same proven losing strategies, then the future belongs to MAGA. This will be the final opportunity to save America, and Dems have to step up. There are those who are willing, let’s see if the Dem leadership can grow a spine and support them.
As I said, I’m keeping my fingers crossed, but when you consider how the progressive wing of the Democrats is demonized by their own people, even though it’s so obvious that the people want these policies, I have very little hope.
Just to illustrate how difficult it is for a European to understand the US mentality: Sanders, AOC, and Mamdani would be moderate center-left politicians in Europe, not at all “extremists” as they are apparently portrayed in the US.
We have two serious foundational issues in our nation that must be addressed, or we will never move beyond where we are right now.
The first is what you referred to: the Conservative Propaganda Machine, which is an amazingly effective operation. They brutally abuse the First Amendment, knowing it is difficult to regulate it, but that is exactly what we have to do. The Conservative Propaganda Machine operates entirely in bad faith, and is the mouthpiece for MAGA, a domestic terrorist organization, and this nation’s biggest national security threat. Under those circumstances, MAGA’s dissemination of disingenuous speech can be controlled.
The second is Campaign Finance Reform, which is the issue from which ALL other issues flow. It allows Sociopathic Oligarchs to control our government through legal bribery and corruption by BOTH sides. We must reconfigure our entire election system so that it filters OUT the worst and most corrupt candidates, instead of washing out our most responsible candidates by bad-faith, disingenuous campaign rhetoric.
As long as those two situations remain in force, we will always have problems with the worst of our nation gaining power. We have to put ALL candidates on equal, fair footing, so the best candidates can be elevated to positions of RESPONSIBILITY, and keep criminals and traitors from gaming our system to gain power to exploit our nation.
I Hope you are right. And I Hope we survive Till midterms… Crossing fingers.
They are already off-constitution with all of their deportations, etc. What makes you think people will do something in 2026 when they aren’t doing anything now?
The mask is off, people are just too afraid to look it in the face and call it what it is. Democracy is over, and the fascists won, for now. If we want it to be short term, we need to start organizing and preparing for armed resistance.
If the Dems can control one of the Congressional chambers, they will control investigatory powers, including subpoena power and arrest powers. That would blunt his legislation, and would force his henchmen to account for their crimes.
That is, IF the Democratic leadership do their jobs, which only has about a 10% chance of happening, unless the new people coming in after the 2026 bloodbath start immediately throwing their weight around, and force the old guard to honor their Constitutional responsibilities. If they won’t, we will treat the Establishment Democrats exactly the same as MAGA.
You’re still operating under the assumption that there will be fair and free elections in November. That is not their plan.
It’s MUCH harder to rig a Congressional election than a presidential election. In a presidential election, you only have to rig one race, in a handful of swing states.
To rig a Congressional election, you have to rig a lot more elections, over 400 districts. Even if you remove the solid Red and solid Blue districts, and only count on those that might swing either way, it would still probably be better than 100 elections, which will be overseen by locals.
That’s why they are trying to game the TOTAL number of districts, rather than the individual races. Unfortunately for them, they’ve been getting pushback from the courts, while inspiring California to fight fire with fire, and redraw their own , and do it legally. Their greedy duplicitous mess may well backfire against them. MAGA only has a very narrow lead right now. If any more MAGAs resign before election day, the House may flip even before the election. California adding five more Blue seats, could easily make the difference, and flip the House to the Democrats.
Then they have to govern responsibly and courageously, which they’ve almost never done in the past.
So you’d be one of the first people to pick up a gun and die at the hands of your government?
It’s easy to shit on people just trying to survive when you’re not in their situation.
Ask the people in Russia. They would die if they rebelled - you wouldn’t, but I’m pretty sure that it will soon be the same for you if you don’t manage to organize serious resistance while you still can.
When I read comments like this, I have little hope that US citizens will manage to shake off their apathy. It is what it is. If you don’t help yourselves, things will only continue to go downhill, as they have for decades - whether you like it or not is irrelevant. It is simply a fact, and it will not help you in any way to blame anyone but yourselves. Other countries cannot intervene because the US is too powerful. We in Europe have our own battles to fight, and I must say that it disgusts me that our politicians still support your mafia state. And if you ask me, yes, I would rather die than accept that my homeland is falling back into fascism. I’m from Germany, and here we know what that means. That’s why we have to find a way to break away from US social media platforms, for example, which are a major factor when it comes to poisoning people’s minds with Nazi propaganda here.
The US does not stand for freedom or any of the other narratives that still seem to impress you. Today, the US is one of humanity’s most significant problems - and that is because US citizens are unable to fight for their own interests. If you think you deserve sympathy, I cannot agree with you. Yes, it is certainly not an easy fight, but it is one that you must fight yourselves. Since you are not doing so to the extent necessary to achieve anything, the other countries of the world have little choice but to turn away - if it were up to me, I would swallow the bitter pill and accept all the economic disadvantages that await us if we turn away from your corrupt state. However, that will not happen because your elite also has our politicians in its pocket - but that is our problem; I would suggest you take care of yours so we might be able to once again work together.
They would die if they rebelled - you wouldn’t
That’s kind of a bold conclusion you’re not really backing up. Anything except the most peaceful assembly in the US very legitimately risks permanent injury or death at the hands of the government, and there’s countless examples of even nonviolent protests being met with lethal force.
Is it the same as attempts to protest in Russia or China? No. But it’s ridiculous to imply that apathy is the sole factor of consideration preventing a revolution in the US.
Yes, that’s true. But in a dictatorship, things look very different, as evidenced by the fact that there are no protests in Russia. If you think that’s because all Russians agree with Putin, you’re wrong.
What I’m saying is that things will only get worse in the US as time passes and the fascists tighten their grip. And that’s what I mean by apathy: not the people who are already doing something, but the millions who, despite the regime’s inhumane actions, pretend that they can just bury their heads in the sand.
Don’t you agree that the regime could be overthrown if the decent people in the US, who in my opinion are still very likely to be the majority despite MAGA, were to join forces?
there are no protests in Russia
Unfortunately, voting has never been an effective way to channel political power. Without serious organization behind them, voters are as easy to disregard as farts in the wind.
If you feel powerless, find or make a group within your community who can band together to amplify your voices. Groups get attention, while individuals - even seas of individuals like the No Kings protests - get ignored.
Boycott anything from the US. Hit the billionaires in their pockets. That’s what’s driving this.
The USA pretends to be a democracy, but in fact it is a criminal, pirate state, they steal what they want, kill whom they want. Fortunately, Trump’s coming to power marked the beginning of the collapse of that anti-human state. Americans of all political persuasions will continue to shout “thank you for your service” to every military person responsible for killing civilians and invading land belonging to others just for the opportunity to make money. Fuck USA.
Just about all governments pretend to be something they are not. And just about all of them are just tools for the wealthy. So fuck poloticians in general.
Stop deviating: there is literally an ongoing assault to the sovereignty of Venezuela right now.
Lolz Venezuela is an authoritarian regime, you gonna defend russia and israel next?
Russia, Hamas, and Cuba are the only countries to condemn the action. Everyone will just ignore that though.
Maybe so far. Give everyone else a few hours to write a statement.
Strongly worded letters eh?
Not really true, but I get your point. Colombia heavily condemned it, and I suspect Iran and the DPRK too
You including Israel, Americas middle east genocidal proxy, in that statement shows your bias.
You mean the United nations (edit: and my vias) bias: https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/11/1157286
If U saying fuck the courts too, then you are like maduro.
The United Nations have been trying to sanction Israel for decades and decades, only the US veto power has stopped them and the US military funding has enabled them.
That’s certainly what the US government and their corporate masters would like you to believe.
Google shit and read for yourself.
Edit: Ill do one bettter, here’s the Wikipedia which includes united nations reports: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misión_Internacional_Independiente_de_determinación_de_los_hechos_sobre_Venezuela
There are no free elections in Venezuela, because a country economically sanctioned and under military threat by the USA cannot have fair elections. Surely you don’t call Zelensky a dictator for postponing elections during the war?
I’m a Spanish communist but sure.
Ukrainians don’t wanna fight any more…what do you call a leader that makes his people fight and die in a war they want to end?
At least you’re consistent, can’t deny that.
I love you, let’s run away together.
Not that the USA is in a great state in any way right now but this isn’t exactly true. Citizens often oppose what a country is doing. For reference just look at how veterans of the Vietnam war were treated. Bullied, harassed and treated like garbage. The reality is far more complicated. Still shit though
It’s a bit more than shit, shit is bribing FIFA to give you a peace prize. This is kidnapping a foreign leader and stealing a countries livelihood. It’s NOT just a bit shit this is full blown state authorized terrorism. America is basically Russia.
Vietnam was worse because the soldiers getting mistreated were often drafted. Not really fair to treat them so badly. And nowadays, for a lot of kids, the military is the only way off the streets and what not. They don’t sign up thinking they are going to do all these evil things. And many of them never have to. So I agree, much more complicated. And I would rather they be employed by the gov to help take care of people, instead of kill them.
employed by the gov to help take care of people, instead of kill them.
That’s what the gov means by “take care of that person”.
It is a democracy, you don’t get to redefine terms randomly.
85% of Americans disapprove of their government, no democracy
My Dad was a helicopter pilot in the Army during the late 50s/early 60s, stationed in South Korea. He’s gone now, so I can’t ask for clarification, but he used to tell the story about flying the President of South Korea around just before his re-election. It was the night before the election, and they had been told they wouldn’t have to fly until the next day, so they were free to hit the bar.
As they were relaxing, they got the call to get back to the airfield to fly the president back to the Capital. Normally that would have be highly against regulations to go from freshly drinking to flying, but a new poll showed the president about to lose the election, so they wanted him back in the Capital when they announced they were suspending the election because, to quote my Dad quoting his orders, “the country wasn’t ready for democracy, yet.”
America has been manipulating international geopolitics from the beginning.
And they’ve been doing it everywhere. No corner is safe from them. Guatemala, Cuba, Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam… Unless I’m mistaken every one of those campaigns, and more, had the goal of interfering with other countries ability to self-govern
Is bolivarian the adjunctive for Venezuela? Feels… Wrong.
It refers to the official name for the government. Venezuelan would still be correct for everything else.
I’m ashamed of my country. JFC.
Shame will not change a thing
You can borrow this
I certainly hope the rest of the world is paying attention this time.
Something else that just occurred to me… It’s only a matter of time before we kidnap Zelensky to end Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
The dude is much better guarded and his people and the international community actually like him.
lol
Is he angry with Putin?
This is going to end up badly. Venezuela has a lot of armed groups and crime anyway. Some of them will fight the US. With all the drugs in South America, they probably will end up financing themself using drug money, creating exactly what the US claims Venezuela is today.
The good part is that Maduro is incompetent, so there is a chance of somebody better leading the country at some point.
Why is Maduro incompetent?
Just look at Venezuelas economy. Hyperinflation, people starving, local production collapsing due to subsidies foreign competition and so forth. To be clear this was not due to sanctions. This got really bad when Maduro became president in 2013 and sanctions only started in 2017.
Doesn’t this description fit in on the U.S. as well?
Yes and no, by far and large superficially it describes the USA. But I’m reality most of the USA is kinda just coasting and it’s pretty mundane and fine.
The USA is still a good long way before it’s close to what Venezuela is like. But it’s for sure on that path, a few years more and I would entirely agree with you.
The USA really only has just started down the path proper so to speak.
But I’m reality most of the USA is kinda just coasting and it’s pretty mundane and fine.
It hasn’t even been a year of Trump’s policies yet. Just wait. The US economy will nose drive even without the AI bubble crashing.
Our economy is cooked and it will get very bad, but we don’t even have the same unemployment we say during the Great recession not even close to the Great Depression. Overall we’re not starving to death yet. Things are pretty bad though.
I do expect things to get much much worse, but we’re not there yet. Truthfully it may be too late to avoid what’s coming
sanctions started with Chavez, years before Maduro took office
The sanctions against Venezuela under Chavez were about as serious as US sanctions against Israel. The US does not care about what you do, as long as you deliver oil to them.
I still do not agree military action against him can help in any way.
Also if you see the American supported candidate for position… I wouldn’t bet on improvement any time soon.
At some point, does not mean the US puppet government will be good. However so far we have seen US supported puppets be kicked out of the countries at some point. Whoever manages to do that is probably going to be some sort of leftist and at least is competent enough to kick out the Americans.
What is that logic? America must oppress people so they get stronger and expell them?
How about American just leave other countries alone?
Jack reads: “This is going to end up badly.”
Jack thinks: “That guy must support the US invasion of Venezuela”
Really?
It worked so well with Iran.
Hell yes! Back to doing coups in South America! USA USA USA!
This is not a coup, but an invasion. A coup would be local elites overthrowing the government. This however is clearly the US.
bro, coups can be external. pretending they can’t doesn’t make it so.
“A sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force.”
By that definition it qualifies, but a lot of other definitions specify a small group of instigators
Jesus Christ. America, your new war started January 3rd 2026. The world will remember this day.
Clearly trump should have waited 1 more day.
Surprised he didn’t wait until the 6th. Seems to be his favorite day to attempt to change a country’s leadership.
That’s the false flag in Russia
Is Brian Williams on MSNBC being “guided by the beauty of our weapons” yet?
Is there a running list somewhere of all the illegal things he’s done so far?
that list would be too long and zero.
His supreme court declared he is above the law, nothing “official” he does is illegal.
He is, by any definition, a dictator
True
Since you won’t get the notification: there’s a list (actually two, since there’s one from his first term, too). It’s maintained by McSweeney’s. You know, the satire website, because in this worst timeline, satire is dead and the media is complicit, and so the satirists must content themselves with being the media:
So how is that candidate for peace working out?
He’s getting it next year.
Or else…
I wonder if maga is pro-war now.
Here’s what Katie Miller is posting on Twitter.
They love war. They know the economy sucks and the president is unpopular - they are the type of people who believe the myth of the Nazi economy being good because of its war machine. They also want wars as an excuse to delay elections, at no point have they been subtle about this.
Did they ever claim not to be?
Yes, extensively.
I remember a few tweets floating around of the base cheering Trump as antiwar. Specifically around the
4632 wars he “stopped”. But if you go further back to his past presidency you get the pro war sentiment again. So really just pick a date and it could go either way.MAGA and Republicans will repeat whatever propaganda the Orange Leader commands like good little boot-licking sheep. Logic and principles play no role in their words and actions. And don’t tell them they’re in a cult!
Wouldn’t it be a miracle if enough Republicans grew a pair of gonads to stand up to the Grifter in Chief over this or any of his other evil actions (like releasing the full and unredacted Epstein files)?
That would literally be miraculous, authoritarian followers have very strong tendencies to compartmentalise their beliefs, ignore leader hypocrisy, and justify violence against outgroups.
If the kidnapping story is true, I’m guessing she’s the next legitimate president of Venezuela^tm
Sooo, what natural resource do they want to steal from Venezuela?
Blood for Oil Part 423,586,235,680,240,924,567: Electric Boogaloo
"Trump says that the US is going to be “strongly involved” in Venezuela’s oil industry moving forward. "
Someone should extract the Trump administration.
“I don’t know what kind of an election that was, but, you know, the election of Maduro was a disgrace.”
Someone fucking quarantine the U.S. already, I’m so sick of them. We can fish out the sensible people but the rest can just rot.
Oil, as always.
Oil, it has the largest unexploited oil deposits of any nation on earth.
Doesn’t seem to matter that the IEA has said about 1.6million barrels a day have been cut from demand becase .of electric vehicles, with that nunber to keep going lower as ecars increase.
Ah. Same old same old. How boring.
But it gets better (worse, actually) - they have low quality oil with the lowest demand and expensive refining
It’s very similar to Alberta tar sand, as I understand it, which Americanrefineries are set up for. Replace Canada’s supply, then Canada can be safely invaded without danger to the oil supply, maybe.
