Venezuela – US Military and FBI Captured Nicolas Maduro and his Wife – They Are on Their Way to Court in New York.
In the night from January 2 to 3, the US Military and FBI carried out a long-planned attack on Caracas, and particularly on Nicolas Maduros residency. Special US military forces entered Maduro’s residency, dragging Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, from their bed room. Both are now blind-folded and handcuffed on the USS Iwo Jima, on their way to New York, where they will face criminal charges on drug dealing / cartel leadership, related money laundering, and arms trading.
Who will be the next leader of Venezuela?
Vice President Delcy Rodriguez calls on liberating immediately President Mauro, as he is the ONLY President accepted by the Venezuelan people. When talking to Delcy, President Trump suggesting she may take an interim leadership role, she replied that she will not take Maduro’s role. Trump will, of course, not follow her request in liberating Maduro. Instead, he said, “Venezuelan People are Free Again.”
While the future Presidency of Venezuela is not decided yet, in a Press Conference-type address, in the morning of Saturday 3 January, Trump bluntly said the US will run Venezuela until the next President is “elected” or put in place.
President Trump literally said, the US is going to “run” Venezuela “until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition”. He added, US oil companies will fix Venezuela’s “broken infrastructure” and “start making money for the country”. He added no US servicemen were killed in the operation and the US is “ready” to stage a second “and much larger” attack on the country if needed. He hoped though, it was not necessary.
The next Venezuelan President will likely be a mere puppet of the US, like Edmundo Gonzalez, or perhaps María Corina Machado. She may be a less likely candidate, as her acceptance by most Venezuelans may be weak, as she openly invited a Trump invasion of her country, saying that she would “sell” Venezuela’s resources, especially hydrocarbons, to the US, to make “some people very rich”.
Although CNN puts the peoples’ support in Venezuela of both candidates at 70%. This is a typical CNN US-biased prediction, knowing that no free election will “elect” the new Venezuelan President.
BBC has a more sober view, leaving the future “open” – though clearly stating that it will be a person working closely with the President Trump’s US of A.
Just look what happened in Syria. The US (CIA), Israel, Mossad, and UK’s MI6, implanted a “former” Al-Qaeda operative, as head of the state, Mr. Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa, also known under his “nom de guerre”, Abu Mohammad al-Julani. He was recently officially received by President Trump in the White House.
What will happen to Nicolas Maduro, his wife and son (his son is also accused of involvement in “drug-dealing / cartel activities”), in a US Court, is not clear now, but most likely prison, if not worse. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has already come up with new / old charges of recycling money through Mexico, that will make a conviction of the Maduro family an almost certainty.
This attack on Venezuela’s leader brings back memories of “déjà-vu”. The Venezuelan case is almost a carbon copy of the US-instigated September 1991 coup against Haiti’s people-elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, forcing him into exile. He has returned to Haiti in 2011, under condition of keeping a low profile.
Mr. Aristide was not convenient for the US – as he was a People’s President, and was unlikely yielding to the interests of the Clintons, who were administering the huge “Haiti Reconstruction Fund” (HRF), donated by the US, Brazil, Canada, Norway, plus major support from the World Bank Group and the European Commission, after the devastating (engineered?) earthquake in 2010.
The Clintons wanted to use these funds largely for their own benefit, namely converting Haiti into a huge sweatshop, cheap labor – and never-economic-development.
That is what has happened and they got away with it until this day.
One may ask: Why did Russia and China not intervene, or at least react with a counter action, after Trump’s illegal attack on Venezuela, illegal under all international legal considerations – or in any way respond on behalf of Venezuela? Russia has condemned the attack by words. The usual. That is all. Russia made huge investments in modernizing Venezuela’s oil production capacity, and China stands to lose billons in signed petroleum contracts with Venezuela.
The answer becomes ever clearer. They may both be part of the same “Globalist Deal” – namely turning the world into a One World Order, under a One World Government, probably led by the fully corrupted UN, with execution capacities for policies given to the World Economic Forum (WEF), and for total control, health, climate (scam) and death – the World Health Organization (WHO). Their so-called leadership (sic) – and funding, of course, their life-blood for survival – is already in the hands of the nameless (your guess) super-super rich, those who designed the current western fraudulent monetary system.
We – the people, are being fed the soothing narrative of a multi-polar world, to quiet us down, make us looking forward to a brighter future. Though, nobody really explained yet what “multi-polar” means. There are lots of fantasies trekking around the globe, of a brighter, less corrupt, more democratic, “multi” leadership, back to sovereign countries and more.
Dreams that will never happen, because people are still and ever more asleep. Only the thought-deprived, dreaming, and as one journalist called them “sheeple”, can believe that freedom and sovereignty are our God-given rights. They are not. We, the people, must fight for them every day.
The fact is, for those who carved the term multi-polar, means nothing like this fantasy dogma proposes. It is simply another expression of a One World Order with different poles, like the Big Ones, US of A, Russia, China, maybe even Iran, as Iran is also a member of the Chinese Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), and a Middle Eastern super-power. Not even the European Union (EU) will be a “pole”.
This may also explain, why Russia is soon entering her 4th year of war against a minor enemy, like Ukraine. With Russia’s by far the world’s most powerful military and weapons power, President Putin could have put an end to this conflict within two weeks after it started. He did not and is dragging not only the war out at infinitum, but helping causing millions of casualties, unnecessary deaths, taking away the future of young people on both sides of the frontiers.
The looming One World Order is also why there is no stopping of ever-more digitization, electronic IDs, digital money, an all-digital world, fast moving towards a digital gulag, from which there is no escape. Period. It is the so-often talked about infamous Matrix. But how to escape from it, is beyond peoples’ imagination. It requires an effort which does not enter the realm of comfort which most people crave.
These multi-poles are all under a One World Roof. The collapse of Germany – Europe’s potentially strongest nation in economic terms, but weakest in obedience (a Tavistock finding), is part of the plan.
If the EU’s collapse does not come fast enough, it will be prompted by its current war-mongering leadership, inciting a WWIII with Russia – again. And it will result in more than a defeat. It may be a full decapitation of Europe. Europe, as a so-called union, is not an acceptable pole for the Mighty. Too much colonial history, still too much economic potential, too little real leadership talent.
Back from transgressing to Venezuela. This may be the beginning of a much larger scheme of Washington taking again control of its “backyard”, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). It is already happening. The world’s mainstream media just ignores it, as it has its planned and sold focus on Venezuela.
Venezuela is also reminiscent of the second half of the 20th Century, when US-installed military dictatorships, à la Pinochet (Chile), Videla (Argentina), Hugo Banzer (Bolivia – 1971 – 1978), to name just a few, kept control over LAC, so independent sovereign countries might not prosper.
What may follow the coup in Venezuela is a Trump-style Monroe Doctrine 2.0. More than 200 years ago, in 1823, then US President James Monroe, declared to Congress, that henceforth, no western colonial powers had anything to do in LAC – this was US territory, He was referring especially to France and the UK.
Today under Trump, the LAC leadership is already changing from liberal and semi-democratic to oppressive, dictatorship-like. The recent election of Chilean President, José Antonio Kast Rist, who openly admits being an admirer of former merciless military dictator Augusto Pinochet (President of Chile 1974 – 1990), speaks for itself.
Next may be Peru, a prominent member of China’s Belt and Road, through the huge container port of Chancay, some 80 km north of Lima. The port was inaugurated in November 2024 by Chinese President Xi himself. Shortly after Trump’s declared tariff war early in his new Presidency in 2025 – mainly directed on China, Trump said clearly that any merchandise entering the US from Chancay would bear a 100% to 150% tariff.
Most LAC countries replied, they did not need the US market, their exports from Chancay would go to Asian markets. Such a view is hardly acceptable by Trump. So, he may do a “Panama 2.0” – have Peru kick out China, or else. This may not be as simple as it looks and sounds. As China has invested hundreds of billions in the Chancay port which is not even half finished yet.
So, where do we go from here?
First, we should start realizing that all these make-believe conflicts around the globe, are just that – conflicts blinding the public at large into believing what is not, that the world is turning into a better place. The Venezuela event is a great start into the New Year. Here go our bland New Year’s wishes. Maybe they should serve as a lesson. More thinking should be put into entering a new solar cycle. Thinking of Peace, less wishing, and more doing.
Peter is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Chongyang Institute of Renmin University, Beijing.