[CONSOLIDATED] Trump says Venezuelan President Maduro and wife 'captured and flown out' in 'large scale strike' by US

[titusilvering]

That's why the success of China is due to deng xiao ping who is able to open up the authoritian regime of China to the " evils" of economic success.

Deng and jiang made tiong great again..... Hu 引狼入室 lead to his own downfall

 

[titusilvering]

Secret hand signal to XI and putin, "come save me bro!!"

It's all staged lah. He made a deal with CIA liao

 

[titusilvering]

USA side no casualties. No idea about the Venezeulan side. You pretty much die when spec ops come after you.

Got v soldiers injured. But they never say got mati or not but the defense minister of v say maduro security team all taken out

 

[erwinrommel]

That's a violation of Venezuela sovereignty. No if and buts. This is coming from someone who supports ukraine.

But those who support Russia's invasion of ukraine shouldn't be making noise.

 

[erwinrommel]

Thanks to his comment, maybe we can see MYR 4:1 SGD
US also recently invested quite a bit in Malaysia, maybe will clawback now

No need.

Malay's govt is so unstable that it will break up anytime.

The votes for the malays, who are the majority, is now split between PN, BN. If BN jumps ship, you see what happens lo.

 

[hardindex]

This one noticed its coming 4 weeks ago, while 中天 morons still brags about china supremacy

 

[carlongerdidu93]

 

[kevinlaikf]

If US pulled the same stunt again, they won't be the one doing the first strike, if the expected outcome known (massing of force), some latin america presidents (Cuba/Columbia) wouldn't mind strike first at the carrier group with ultrasonic super weapons from friends and his escape route to nuclear-capable friendly countries secured.

Anti-Ship Weapon successfully tested would be a boost to arm sales market.





Sent from my friend's mobile phone.

 

[eversomighty]

Huh? So, if I support Trump, I must move to the US? How daft is that?

then u shout shout here, shout shout there. and dont do anything else then got point meh? like that not draft meh?

 

[kelhot2001]

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/...ays-united-behind-maduro-after-his-us-capture

From Articles

united behind Maduro after his US capture



Venezuela’s interim government stays united behind Maduro after his US capture
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Venezuela's Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello (left) and Vice-President Delcy Rodriguez taking part in a Labour Day march in Caracas on May 1, 2025.

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Published Jan 05, 2026, 03:36 AM

Updated Jan 05, 2026, 08:41 AM


A top Venezuelan official declared on Jan 4 that the country’s government would stay unified behind President Nicolas Maduro, whose capture by the United States has sparked deep uncertainty about what is next for the oil-rich South American nation.

Maduro is in a New York detention centre awaiting a Jan 5 court appearance on drug charges, after US President Donald Trump ordered his removal from Venezuela and said the US would take control of the country. But in Caracas, top officials in Maduro’s government, who have called the detentions of Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores a kidnapping, were still in charge.

“Here, the unity of the revolutionary force is more than guaranteed, and here, there is only one president, whose name is Nicolas Maduro Moros. Let no one fall for the enemy’s provocations,” Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello said in an audio shared by the ruling PSUV socialist party on Jan 4 as he urged calm

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If the regime still remains, nothing change. The newly sworn in interim President is the VP under Maduro. So how, now that Trump plan to take over did not materialize, will he be sending in troops next ?

 

[xdivider]

That's a violation of Venezuela sovereignty. No if and buts. This is coming from someone who supports ukraine.

But those who support Russia's invasion of ukraine shouldn't be making noise.

agreed. im not supporting this nor god told me there were wmd in iraq last time....

the funny thing is the countries/people who supported a smo on a 'corrupted country' are now protesting.......

btw tiong/russkie stuff were useless unlike their cow blowing........

US sources confirm that Chinese-supplied air defense radars in Venezuela failed and were systematically neutralized during the operation. Among the systems rendered inoperative were JY-27 long range early-warning radars, which Beijing has repeatedly claimed are capable of detecting F-22 and F-35 stealth fighters.
The Russian-supplied Nebo-M radar suffered the same fate

 

[fortunecat]

If US pulled the same stunt again, they won't be the one doing the first strike, if the expected outcome known (massing of force), some latin america presidents (Cuba/Columbia) wouldn't mind strike first at the carrier group with ultrasonic super weapons from friends and his escape route to nuclear-capable friendly countries secured.

Anti-Ship Weapon successfully tested would be a boost to arm sales market.





Sent from my friend's mobile phone.

People already have 2nd thoughts about tiongland's equipment now. Venezuela's radar supposed to even detect F22 but was easily interfered by US.

Other countries still dare to test US' capability?

 

[hardindex]

agreed. im not supporting this nor god told me there were wmd in iraq last time....

the funny thing is the countries/people who supported a smo on a 'corrupted country' are now protesting.......

btw tiong/russkie stuff were useless unlike their cow blowing........

Wonder how much money they scammed, these dictator countries keep buying their trashes

 

[gn1252]

https://sg.yahoo.com/news/nicolas-maduro-corrupt-bus-driver-163024212.html

Shortly after the death of Hugo Chávez in 2013, Nicolás Maduro, who succeeded him as president, went on national television to claim that his late political mentor had reappeared to him as a tiny songbird.

Apparently speaking in earnest, the Left-wing populist claimed that the chirping bird had circled his head several times as he prayed in a chapel, and that the pair then whistled back and forth to each other in conversation.

“I felt his [Chávez’s] spirit,” Mr Maduro told millions of Venezuelans during the live address. “I felt him blessing us and telling us: ‘Today, the battle starts. Head to victory, take our blessings.’ That’s how I felt him in my soul.”

The absurd scene neatly encapsulates the former bus driver and union leader’s 13-year presidency of Venezuela.

During that time, he constructed an elaborate official narrative based on bizarre mythologising and outright lies in a necessary refusal to acknowledge the calamitous, real-world consequences of his own policies.

It also reflects the fact that Mr Maduro owed his entire political capital and branding – and possibly even survival as president – to his career as one of the late strongman leader’s closest loyalists.

While Mr Maduro, 63, who has just been dramatically detained and whisked out of the South American country by US special forces, painted an increasingly surreal picture of Venezuela as a “Bolivarian socialist” paradise, ordinary citizens were forced to live in ever greater squalor and fear of their own government.

Venezuela is, according to Opec, the only country in the world with larger oil reserves than Saudi Arabia. Yet under Mr Maduro, the economy fell off a cliff, amid a blizzard of nationalisations, runaway corruption and gross mismanagement.

Chavista loyalists with no relevant qualifications were installed at PDVSA, the state-owned oil company that was the national cash cow, accounting for more than 90 per cent of exports. Predictably, its output nosedived.

Meanwhile, agricultural production plummeted as the regime supplied food free or at heavily subsidised prices to regime-supporting neighbourhoods, often in urban slums, while leaving the rest of the country to starve.

And medicines needed for cancer and a host of other life-threatening but treatable diseases vanished from the shop shelves. Many Venezuelans were forced into desperate strategies, including rummaging through rubbish, to survive.

Ultimately, as many as eight million – one quarter of the population – were forced to flee their homeland, in many cases just to be able to feed and clothe their families. It is, statistically, the western hemisphere’s greatest ever refugee crisis.

Anyone who complained, from ordinary citizens to prominent opposition leaders, risked imprisonment and torture at the hands of the thuggish security forces.

In the meantime, the economy shrank by at least 75 per cent under Mr Maduro – the nail in the coffin for a country that the 1970s oil boom had transformed into Latin America’s richest.

Yet despite it all, Mr Maduro may be judged – by his own dystopian standards – a successful president.

His ascent to high office, never mind clinging to power for so long, was not something that either critics or supporters of the regime ever expected.

Raised in El Valle, a blue-collar suburb in eastern Caracas, Mr Maduro was steeped by his father in Left-wing activism from an early age.

He became a supporter of Chávez after “el Comandante” was jailed for a failed coup against a democratically elected government in 1992.

After the strongman was elected president in 1999, Mr Maduro rose through the Chavista ranks, becoming a deputy, then foreign minister and eventually vice-president.

Even in those early days, there were clear hints of the corruption of which the ousted president is now accused.

In 2006, when returning from the United Nations General Assembly in New York, which he had attended as Venezuela’s top diplomat, he was briefly arrested after paying for plane tickets for his entourage in cash.

In 2012, in one of his final public acts, a cancer-riddled Chávez anointed his trusted sidekick as his political heir.

It said everything that the dying autocrat felt his say-so – rather than the looming election – was all that was required to ensure the presidential succession.

Mr Maduro won his first election later that year, beating his youthful opponent, Henrique Capriles, the unified opposition candidate, by just 1.5 per cent.

Mr Capriles demanded a recount, which the regime refused to provide, establishing the precedent for Mr Maduro’s two subsequent presidential victories, in 2018 and 2024, both of which were marred by highly detailed allegations of widespread fraud.

At least initially, Mr Maduro was widely regarded as a weak, fundamentally flawed leader, lacking both the crude charisma and wily political skills of Chávez.

Many suspected that he was just a figurehead, with the regime’s hard man, Diosdado Cabello, a former army colleague of Chávez who led a tank unit during the 1992 coup attempt, the true power behind the throne.

Most commentators – including this author – predicted that Mr Maduro’s tenure in the Miraflores Palace, Venezuela’s palm-lined, colonial-era presidential residence, would be brief. Yet, somehow, he managed to stay in power for 13 years.

He did so even while economic mismanagement and collapsing oil prices ravaged the economy, turning a regime once popular for its largesse with the poor into one that relied on the military, police and heavily armed militias of motorcycle-riding Chavista supporters to terrorise opponents.

Maduro used foreign ‘plots’ to bolster support​

Mr Maduro also used the bogeyman of “gringo imperialism” to shore up his base, routinely giving speeches accusing the White House or Western oil companies of plotting against him, including on multiple occasions claiming – without ever providing evidence – to have thwarted foreign-backed assassination plots.

He also frequently appealed to the anti-imperialist legacy of Simón Bolívar, the revered “liberator”, who led most of South America’s struggle for independence from Spain in the early 19th century.

Yet the truth is that Bolívar was a liberal in the classic sense, who must have been spinning in his grave at the way a corrupt, tyrannical regime sought to politically appropriate his legacy.

Barack Obama and Joe Biden tended to publicly ignore Mr Maduro during their presidencies, in an attempt to take the oxygen out of the adversarial relationship that the dictator used as a political prop.

During his first term, however, Donald Trump adopted the opposite tack, launching outspoken tirades against Mr Maduro, hyping up the geopolitical tension between Washington and Caracas – and potentially giving both presidents a domestic political boost.

That war of words came to a crashing end on Saturday morning.

As he now contemplates spending the rest of his days behind bars in a high-security US prison, Mr Maduro will be coming to terms with the fact that, this time, Mr Trump was not bluffing.

 

[psyger-zero]

https://sg.yahoo.com/news/nicolas-maduro-corrupt-bus-driver-163024212.html

Shortly after the death of Hugo Chávez in 2013, Nicolás Maduro, who succeeded him as president, went on national television to claim that his late political mentor had reappeared to him as a tiny songbird.

Apparently speaking in earnest, the Left-wing populist claimed that the chirping bird had circled his head several times as he prayed in a chapel, and that the pair then whistled back and forth to each other in conversation.

“I felt his [Chávez’s] spirit,” Mr Maduro told millions of Venezuelans during the live address. “I felt him blessing us and telling us: ‘Today, the battle starts. Head to victory, take our blessings.’ That’s how I felt him in my soul.”

The absurd scene neatly encapsulates the former bus driver and union leader’s 13-year presidency of Venezuela.

During that time, he constructed an elaborate official narrative based on bizarre mythologising and outright lies in a necessary refusal to acknowledge the calamitous, real-world consequences of his own policies.

It also reflects the fact that Mr Maduro owed his entire political capital and branding – and possibly even survival as president – to his career as one of the late strongman leader’s closest loyalists.

While Mr Maduro, 63, who has just been dramatically detained and whisked out of the South American country by US special forces, painted an increasingly surreal picture of Venezuela as a “Bolivarian socialist” paradise, ordinary citizens were forced to live in ever greater squalor and fear of their own government.

Venezuela is, according to Opec, the only country in the world with larger oil reserves than Saudi Arabia. Yet under Mr Maduro, the economy fell off a cliff, amid a blizzard of nationalisations, runaway corruption and gross mismanagement.

Chavista loyalists with no relevant qualifications were installed at PDVSA, the state-owned oil company that was the national cash cow, accounting for more than 90 per cent of exports. Predictably, its output nosedived.

Meanwhile, agricultural production plummeted as the regime supplied food free or at heavily subsidised prices to regime-supporting neighbourhoods, often in urban slums, while leaving the rest of the country to starve.

And medicines needed for cancer and a host of other life-threatening but treatable diseases vanished from the shop shelves. Many Venezuelans were forced into desperate strategies, including rummaging through rubbish, to survive.

Ultimately, as many as eight million – one quarter of the population – were forced to flee their homeland, in many cases just to be able to feed and clothe their families. It is, statistically, the western hemisphere’s greatest ever refugee crisis.

Anyone who complained, from ordinary citizens to prominent opposition leaders, risked imprisonment and torture at the hands of the thuggish security forces.

In the meantime, the economy shrank by at least 75 per cent under Mr Maduro – the nail in the coffin for a country that the 1970s oil boom had transformed into Latin America’s richest.

Yet despite it all, Mr Maduro may be judged – by his own dystopian standards – a successful president.

His ascent to high office, never mind clinging to power for so long, was not something that either critics or supporters of the regime ever expected.

Raised in El Valle, a blue-collar suburb in eastern Caracas, Mr Maduro was steeped by his father in Left-wing activism from an early age.

He became a supporter of Chávez after “el Comandante” was jailed for a failed coup against a democratically elected government in 1992.

After the strongman was elected president in 1999, Mr Maduro rose through the Chavista ranks, becoming a deputy, then foreign minister and eventually vice-president.

Even in those early days, there were clear hints of the corruption of which the ousted president is now accused.

In 2006, when returning from the United Nations General Assembly in New York, which he had attended as Venezuela’s top diplomat, he was briefly arrested after paying for plane tickets for his entourage in cash.

In 2012, in one of his final public acts, a cancer-riddled Chávez anointed his trusted sidekick as his political heir.

It said everything that the dying autocrat felt his say-so – rather than the looming election – was all that was required to ensure the presidential succession.

Mr Maduro won his first election later that year, beating his youthful opponent, Henrique Capriles, the unified opposition candidate, by just 1.5 per cent.

Mr Capriles demanded a recount, which the regime refused to provide, establishing the precedent for Mr Maduro’s two subsequent presidential victories, in 2018 and 2024, both of which were marred by highly detailed allegations of widespread fraud.

At least initially, Mr Maduro was widely regarded as a weak, fundamentally flawed leader, lacking both the crude charisma and wily political skills of Chávez.

Many suspected that he was just a figurehead, with the regime’s hard man, Diosdado Cabello, a former army colleague of Chávez who led a tank unit during the 1992 coup attempt, the true power behind the throne.

Most commentators – including this author – predicted that Mr Maduro’s tenure in the Miraflores Palace, Venezuela’s palm-lined, colonial-era presidential residence, would be brief. Yet, somehow, he managed to stay in power for 13 years.

He did so even while economic mismanagement and collapsing oil prices ravaged the economy, turning a regime once popular for its largesse with the poor into one that relied on the military, police and heavily armed militias of motorcycle-riding Chavista supporters to terrorise opponents.

Maduro used foreign ‘plots’ to bolster support​

Mr Maduro also used the bogeyman of “gringo imperialism” to shore up his base, routinely giving speeches accusing the White House or Western oil companies of plotting against him, including on multiple occasions claiming – without ever providing evidence – to have thwarted foreign-backed assassination plots.

He also frequently appealed to the anti-imperialist legacy of Simón Bolívar, the revered “liberator”, who led most of South America’s struggle for independence from Spain in the early 19th century.

Yet the truth is that Bolívar was a liberal in the classic sense, who must have been spinning in his grave at the way a corrupt, tyrannical regime sought to politically appropriate his legacy.

Barack Obama and Joe Biden tended to publicly ignore Mr Maduro during their presidencies, in an attempt to take the oxygen out of the adversarial relationship that the dictator used as a political prop.

During his first term, however, Donald Trump adopted the opposite tack, launching outspoken tirades against Mr Maduro, hyping up the geopolitical tension between Washington and Caracas – and potentially giving both presidents a domestic political boost.

That war of words came to a crashing end on Saturday morning.

As he now contemplates spending the rest of his days behind bars in a high-security US prison, Mr Maduro will be coming to terms with the fact that, this time, Mr Trump was not bluffing.

One had a bus driver,another had a comedian as president

 

[apple459721]

Can ask china, russia stationed thier troops there

 

[mel1888]

One had a bus driver,another had a comedian as president

Heng we got scorers to lead us...

 

[ribena.bing]

whatever

history is written by victors

 

[C_boliao]

There is no easy war between big countries. They probably just want tiongland to restrain themselves on Taiwan issue

What Usa did, by giving a reason to attack and no other countries are doing actual retaliate to USA, just might give China a way to attack Taiwan.

 

[Lonewolf83]

What Maduro failed, will be fulfilled by the Land of Freedom