“Now it becomes clear: Trump’s adventure was little more than a callow vendetta against Maduro himself, with no further constructive plans for the actual management of the country or situation after Maduro’s fall.” From Simplicius at simplicius76.substack.com:
The questions we raised in yesterday’s piece have finally been answered by the Trump administration itself. The main and most important was what exactly is the real situation in Venezuela vis-a-vis US control? Was the Maduro grab an isolated event, with the US not actually in control of anything on the ground and in the Venezuelan government?
The answer came directly from Marco Rubio who openly stated that the situation in Venezuela has not changed at all. Maduro’s capture was just that: the removal of the sitting president, and the new Venezuelan leadership and military are in control of the country with the US merely “hoping” that they will do Trump’s bidding:
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BREAKING: U.S Secretary of State Marco Rubio admits that abducting Maduro did not solve anything:
“All of the problems we had with Maduro when Maduro was there. We still have those problems in terms of them needing to be addressed.
We are going to give people an opportunity to address those challenges and those problems. Until they address it, they will continue to face this oil quarantine.
They will continue to face pressure from the United States. We will continue to target drug boats if they try to run towards the United States.
We will continue to seize the the boats that are sanctioned with court orders.
We will continue to do that and potentially other things until the things we need to see addressed are addressed.”
In short, the situation remains as before with the US enforcing an economic blockade over Venezuela—or in other words, waging economic terror on its citizens.
