New #Lotus data wiper used against Venezuelan #energy, utility firms

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-lotus-data-wiper-used-against-venezuelan-energy-utility-firms/

#malware #Venezuela #cybersecurity #infrastructure

I mean, there is precedent for it ...

https://theneedling.com/2025/12/01/venezuela-bombs-american-drug-yacht-wiping-out-entire-sackler-family-cartel/

#satire #venezuela #opioids #NoBillionaires #classwar

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satirical headline Venezuela Bombs American Drug Yacht, Wiping Out Entire Sackler Family Cartel

Documents Reveal Real Reason for Raid on Chicago Apartment Building
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The DHS arrest records make no mention of the Tren de Aragua gang even though officials repeatedly cited its presence in the building as motivation for the raid, in which agents descended from a Blackhawk helicopter and zip-tied U.S. citizens.
https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-venezuela-immigration-ice-raid-landlord-tren-de-aragua?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #ICE #Chicago #Immigration #Venezuela #Immigrants #DHS #USPolitics

¡Venga por mí, cobarde! (Come and get me, coward) - the famous words by president of #Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, that infuriated Donald Trump and make him send a commando to #Caracas to capture him. You can get this image printed as poster, tshirt, or more.

https://nickoprints.com/featured/venga-por-mi-cobarde-nicolas-maduro-meme-poster-nicko-prints.html

#Maduro #NicolasMaduro #art #wallart #Maduromeme #NicolasMaduroMeme #poster #posterart #Venezuela

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Coloful poster of president of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro , with the words „Venga por mi, cobarde”

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Tshirt with coloful portrait of president of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro , with the words „Venga por mi, cobarde”

#Europe draws red line on #Greenland after a year of futilely trying to pacify #Trump

While many European leaders’ reactions to the #Venezuela raid were muted, there have been forceful rebukes about the Trump admin’s greediness on Greenland.

#MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #Denmark #NATO #NewWorldOrder #law #Congress #WarPowers #NaturalResources #oil #minerals #sovereignty #ShippingLanes #ClimateChange #theft #piracy #greed #InternationalLaw
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/01/07/trump-us-europe-greenland/

Where many European leaders’ reactions to the #Venezuela raid were muted, caveated or outsourced to #legal abstractions about the #UNCharter, European leaders on Tuesday came out with uncommonly forceful rebukes about the #Trump admin’s greediness on #Greenland.



#MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #Denmark #Europe #NATO #NewWorldOrder #law #Congress #WarPowers #NaturalResources #oil #minerals #sovereignty #ShippingLanes #ClimateChange #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw

Tensions over Greenland’s status were already escalating even before the #Venezuela raid.

…After the Caracas operation, the rhetoric grew edgier &—following #Trump’s effective takeover of a sovereign neighbor—far more believable.

White House deputy chief of staff #StephenMiller said Tuesday that the “formal position” of the #US is that #Greenland should be American, for national security reasons, &, that essentially, it was Trump’s for the taking.

#MafiaState #geopolitics #Europe #NATO #law

Hurlburt cited a retired #US general who viewed the #Trump White House move in #Venezuela & its fixation on #Greenland as reminiscent of teenagers playing the geostrategic board game Risk.

“Once you start down the road of the #MonroeDoctrine or the #DonroeDoctrine, or whatever we’re saying now, you look at a map of the #WesternHemisphere, & there is Greenland,” she said.

#Trump #MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #Europe #NATO #NewWorldOrder #law #Congress #WarPowers #InternationalLaw

The Melian Dialogue, Trump, and the Persistent Fantasy of Fair Play 👉 https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/06/the-melian-dialogue-trump-and-the-persistent-fantasy-of-fair-play/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#politics #philosophy #realism #fairness #trump #commentary #foreignaffairs #power #journalism #history #potus #enforcement #equality #usa #norms #convenience #hume #venezuela #law #morality #ethics

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Greek Art

“Gamblers, trying to collect their payout from #Polymarket, left baffled as they learn that the US operation carried out in Venezuela does not meet Polymarket's definition of an invasion”.

(and just in case you’re wondering, #Polymarket is a #crypto thing, unlike #Kalshi which lets you gamble in real money)

#Venezuela #Maduro #Trump #Uspol #predictionMarkets #predictionMarket #gambling

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By Brett Arends (MarketWatch) -- If this isn't an invasion, what is? Donald Trump Jr.'s private investment company bought a stake in Polymarket last year, and he joined the company's advisory board. Who says the U.S. government didn't just invade Venezuela to capture its president and first lady? A global betting market with close ties to the Trump family, that's who. Customers of Polymarket are crying foul after the world's biggest prediction market has refused to pay out on bets that the U.S. would "invade" Venezuela, claiming that the events over the weekend don't count. "Then what the f- would be an invasion?" asked one anonymous client in a post on the Polymarket website, calling the company "Polyscam.” "Polymarket has descended into sheer arbitrariness," said another. "Words are redefined at will, detached from any recognized meaning, and facts are simply ignored. That a military incursion, the kidnapping of a head of state, and the takeover of a country are not classified as an invasion is plainly absurd." "You wanna be f-ing kidding me," wrote another. "So it's not an invasion because they did it quickly and not many people died?" asked another. (The New York Times, citing a Venezuelan official, has reported a death toll of 80 in the raid.) The comments section turned to heavy sarcasm, with several gamblers asking

"Before Nicolás Maduro and Hugo Chávez, there was #CiprianoCastro. Before Donald Trump, there was Theodore Roosevelt. And before petroleum, there was asphalt pitch. The following excerpt from #AmericaAmérica: A New History of the New World is a timely reminder that behind today’s headlines announcing any given crisis in #LatinAmerica often stands a long history of imperial outrages."

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/venezuela-tar-wars/
#Venezuela #USimperialism #LatinAmericanHistory #plusÇaChange #books @bookstodon

https://mastodon.social/@Nicolas_Maduro

#Maduro #Venezuela

#TheBolivarianRevolution, a collection of writings by #SímonBolívar with an introduction by #HugoChávez, is now available in free ebook format via #VersoBooks. (NB that the posted price for the ebook is discounted to zero once it's placed in the cart. It costs nothing to set up a Verso account):

https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2093-the-bolivarian-revolution

#Venezuela #LatinAmericanHistory #Bolívar #BolivarianRevolution #revolutions #historyOfTheAmericas #decolonialStruggles #books @bookstodon

reminder that #crypto touches pretty much every story in the news these days, including recent events in #Venezuela

#Maduro and #PdVSA have been using #Tether #USDT to avoid american sanctions and sell #oil to #Russia and whoever else for years.

#HowardLutnick #LUtnick #uspol #stablecoin #corruption #Putin #sanctions #SanctionsEvasion

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47. As a further part of the money laundering scheme, the defendants YURY OREKHOV, JUAN FERNANDO SERRANO PONCE and JUAN CARLOS SOTO also consummated a transaction involving 500,000 barrels of Venezuelan oil from PDVSA | 2021, SERRANO wrote OREKHOV that he [SERRANO] had “just finished with [PDVSA’s Vice President for Trading and Supply]. You will be berthing tomorrow . . . on Wednesday we have to pay 50%. They want to increase $.50 per barrel . . can you transfer USDT?” OREKHOV confirmed, “[O]k. 35.5 USDT yes . . . should it be 100% USDT? Or can some part be cash as well?” SERRANO responded that he knew of “one guy who can give us cash against USDT.” A “recap” document and loading instructions for the 500,000 barrels at “34.00 USD/BBL” was later sent to OREKHOV. The next day, OREKHOV told SERRANO:

The moment marks the realization of a long-held goal for #Rubio, who has voiced his criticisms of #Maduro & desire for change in #Venezuela for well over a decade. Those who have worked closely with Rubio, whose parents fled #Cuba shortly before the Communist takeover in 1959, say the issues of the region are close to his heart.

“Marco’s parents’ experience…is hardwired in him” said Cesar Conda, a Republican strategist who worked as the fmr senator’s chief of staff 2011–2014.

#geopolitics #law

some guy decided you shouldn’t have a home. he wants claim to your lawn and garden and door, walls, roof, kitchen, bed clothes; even your wife and kids and pets.

he hires goons to assault you & your family in the middle of the night, with the promise of letting them loot your family heirlooms. he tells them he decided you don’t have a right to self-defense; that you’ll just roll over and die.

this is about #Venezuela #Ukraine #Gaza #Iraq #Afghanistan #Vietnam and every gringolarchy war

i cannot see Venezuelans rolling over and allowing for this gringolarchy invasion to go forward. the #petromafia is in for a rude guerrilla war awakening.

#Venezuela #USAterrorism #fascism

❝ As Mr. Grenell and Mr. Maduro’s envoys negotiated a deal, the leader of Venezuela’s main opposition movement, María Corina Machado, pitched her own economic proposal in New York.

She argued that even greater economic wealth — $1.7 trillion in 15 years — awaited U.S. companies in Venezuela if her movement launched a political transition…

"… We want you here…"❞

Venezuela’s Maduro Offered the U.S. His Nation’s Riches to Avoid Conflict
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/world/americas/maduro-venezuela-us-oil.html

#petromafia #fascism #Venezuela

@danirabbit @Em0nM4stodon - General Strike.

The follow up to that call is "we will starve if we generally strike".

The answer is build community and mutual aid apparatus to support a general strike. You need shelter (a general strike includes not paying rent or mortgage). You need food (build out mutual aid food networks). You need electricity (build out localized microgrids for your block).

Join the community in your backyard and build it up. So we can all generally strike and undercut the funding to this war effort.

For you specifically @danirabbit - You have leadership and organizational experience and expertise with everything you do at Elementary. Apply what you know and have learned from FOSS development to local groups and initiatives. They need you. Then tell us what you are doing and how so we can apply lessons learned in our neighborhoods as well.

#solarPunk #mutualAid #venezuela

If you're not sure how to join or build community and mutual aid - here is a quick primer: https://infosec.exchange/@tinker/113589807117870451

You have community where you are now, even if you're unaware of it.

If you say "I can't do anything, I have to take care of my kids. I have a job. I don't want to starve. I'm fatigued" - it's because our system is designed this way. Its NOT YOU!

It's intentional and systemic.

So you have to join and build a new system and work with your neighbors to GET and GIVE support, food, shelter, all of it.

Join mutual aid to make your life easier. AND to fight what is going on.

#solarPunk #mutualAid #venezuela

You can't beat the US military, itself.

We literally have caches of munitions and equipment in ice caves and various other places throughout the world. - A ride to the hospital costs $5,000 and is not covered by taxes/govt. College isnt covered. We have minimal pensions or worker support. Et cetera.

All the public money that could go to social needs goes to violence.

And we're good at it.

You have to go after leadership (not a threat from me or a call to violence). The think tanks, the political apparatus, the corporations that profit from war efforts, the billionaire oligarchs.

The "vote them out" stage is in one year and we have no idea if we'll even have a means to democratically transfer power.

You are in it now. There is no waiting. Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, North Korea, Oligarch Russia - if you've ever asked yourself what you would do in those times and places... you are doing it right now.

If you have means and power, sort out ways to counter the current regime's leadership and initiatives.

If you don't have that power and are just a "normal
person with a family and job", then actively join and build Community and Mutual Aid in your neighborhood. You need to feed each other. Shelter each other. Care for each other's kids. Actively take care of each other. This isn't kumbaya woo-woo feel-good shit. This is removing the threat they have over our heads.

No one wants to and many can't fight back because we are all wage slaves who cant afford not to work for capitalist corporations that fund the war effort.

So build apparatus that lets us get out from under the capitalist boot. Build it. Now. Right at your doorstep. Go... GO!

#venezuela

Chuck Schumer’s strongly worded letter about #Venezuela from last November. can’t find any official pronouncements about Trump’s criminal incursion into the country nor about the capture of #Maduro.

Democrats have a funny way to standing against American #fascism, on a day that will forever live in infamy.

Leader Schumer Floor Remarks Urging Senate Passage Of The Venezuelan War Powers Resolution
The Senate Democratic Caucus
https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/leader-schumer-floor-remarks-urging-senate-passage-of-the-venezuelan-war-powers-resolution

Les USA bombardent le Venezuela
https://investigaction.net/les-usa-bombardent-le-venezuela/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=les-usa-bombardent-le-venezuela
Communiqué de la République Bolivarienne du Venezuela La République bolivarienne du Venezuela rejette, condamne et dénonce devant la communauté internationale la très grave agression militaire perpétrée par l’actuel gouvernement des […]
#Politique #AmériqueLatine #NonClassifié(e) #Venezuela

Rosie’s Rough Gig: We Can’t Do It.

OR

Maritime Manufacturing

OR

Built To Last

this #USANavy #tv #ad is about the #gigEconomy dystopia engineered by #techbros #finbros for the USA #petromafia.

this ad is about how the oligarchy have engineered the economy to make you, White America, the new #precariat. ESPECIALLY you, #tech workers. you are now burdened with student debt for jobs capitalists won’t give you because !AI

this ad is about #Venezuela #Gaza #Ukraine #SouthSudan #Nigeria #Iran

“They should say, ‘Great job.’ They shouldn’t say, ‘Oh Gee, maybe it’s not constitutional.’ You know, the same old stuff that we’ve been hearing for years & years & years,” Trump said who very likely has never read the US Constitution.

#law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #abduction #Venezuela #oil #LandGrab #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw

RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/114724583963536081

this post is also about #Venezuela.

with the #genocide in #Gaza taking its course and their methane fields (aka natural gas) in the bag, the petromafia won’t stop at #Maduro.

they will crank up the other genocide, #SouthSudan, in preparation to invading #Nigeria and capturing their Moby Dick, #Iran

spring isn't the time to shut down the United States.

the time is now.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/113436407678777716

#Venezuela #Gaza #Ukraine

RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/112912741524762647

#Venezuela #Iran

RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/112895273354606587

been sounding the alarm about the gringo petromafia’s obsession with invading #Venezuela, #Iran and #Nigeria since they convinced Obama to use the Arab Spring to stage a fake uprising in Libya and coup Khaddafi.

remember him? USA’s favorite dictator in Africa? the one who allegedly paid Beyonce a mill for one day of work? he wanted to create the African version of the EU with their own currency.

do you know Maduro’s crime? he wanted to repatriate VZ gold reserves to back that AU.

La dernière frappe de Trump dans les Caraïbes est « un meurtre, pur et simple », selon Amnesty
https://www.les-crises.fr/la-derniere-frappe-de-trump-dans-les-caraibes-est-un-meurtre-pur-et-simple-selon-amnesty/
Cette frappe intervient alors que Trump a secrètement autorisé la CIA à mener des opérations meurtrières au Venezuela. Source : Sharon Zhang, TruthoutTraduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises Le président américain Donald Trump s’exprime lors d’une réunion avec le président argentin Javier Milei dans la salle du Conseil des ministres à la Maison Blanche, […]
#Politique #Géopolitique #Usa #Venezuela

L’escalade de Washington avec le Venezuela est « avant tout le projet idéologique de Marco Rubio » qui souhaite renverser Maduro et affaiblir Cuba
https://www.les-crises.fr/l-escalade-de-washington-avec-le-venezuela-est-avant-tout-le-projet-ideologique-de-marco-rubio/
L’administration Trump a désormais tué au moins 43 personnes lors de 10 frappes contre des bateaux soit-disant « de drogue » dans les Caraïbes et l’océan Pacifique. La menace d’une guerre contre le Venezuela et la région environnante s’intensifie alors que le Pentagone déploie dans les Caraïbes le plus grand porte-avions du monde, l’USS Gerald […]
#Politique #Géopolitique #NicolasMaduro #Usa #Venezuela

I am wondering whether Venezuela will even activate it's airdefenses if the US strikes. The risk is ofcourse that the US will destroy them. Or will destroy the US their S-300 installations anyway?
Those S-300 are probably the only thing they worry about. Also it is highly likely standoff weapons will be used.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-300_missile_system
#USA #Venezuela #airdefense #geopolitics

It's all about money and terrorising / controlling the world

A new report by Responsible Statecraft reveals that the United States’ escalating military buildup near Venezuela is significantly benefiting weapons contractors like Lockheed Martin, RTX, and General Atomics.

The deployment includes aircraft carriers, guided-missile destroyers, submarines, and unmanned drones, with tens of thousands of troops now stationed in the Caribbean.

#USA #Venezuela

Based on the testimonies of 40 men who were detained at #CECOT, as well as interviews with 150 other people—including lawyers & relatives in #Venezuela, #Colombia, & the US—it paints a damning picture of the abuses inflicted at CECOT.

The #Venezuelans were released in July and returned to their country of origin as part of a prisoner swap deal. Shortly after their release, 3 of the men told MJ that they faced severe #abuse.

#Trump #law #immigration #Rendition #HumanRights #DueProcess #torture

The carrier strike group’s arrival pushes the number of #US troops in the region to about 15,000, including personnel spread across roughly a dozen #warships & reinforcements sent in recent weeks to US facilities in Puerto Rico — a stunning #military presence in a region that historically has seen only 1 or 2 Navy vessels assisting the USCG on routine drug-interdiction missions that usually ended with the suspects’ detention & prosecution.

#Trump #law #Venezuela #WarPowers #InternationalLaw

…The Ford, which is the Navy’s most modern & largest carrier, has 4,000 sailors on board. It is accompanied by the destroyers USS Bainbridge, USS Mahan & USS Winston S. Churchill. Cancian…said it can cost as much as $8.4 million a day to operate an #AircraftCarrier.

#Trump #law #military #Venezuela #WarPowers #Congress #SeparationOfPowers #InternationalLaw #LawOfArmedConflict #authoritarianism #autocracy

“The only reason to move it there is to use it against Venezuela,” Cancian surmised, adding that the Ford’s arrival means “the shot clock has started because this is not an asset they can just keep there indefinitely. They have to use it or move it. And moving it would mean they are standing down” from a potential attack on #Venezuela, he said.

#Trump #law #WarPowers #Congress #SeparationOfPowers #InternationalLaw #LawOfArmedConflict #authoritarianism #autocracy

Carriers are strategic assets, & the #US uses its fleet of 11 — many of which are in scheduled maintenance & not available to sail at any given time — for power projection & deterrence in its top-tier #security concerns, notably countering #China in the Indo-Pacific region & maintaining a deterrent presence in the #MiddleEast, said Mark Cancian, a senior #defense adviser at CSIS.

#Trump #law #Venezuela #WarPowers #Congress #SeparationOfPowers #InternationalLaw #authoritarianism #autocracy

Padrino said on national television that #Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás #Maduro, ordered a massive deployment of soldiers, “almost 200,000,” he said, as part of the special operation.

…The breadth of firepower inherent to an #AircraftCarrier strike group—the Ford typically travels with dozens of fighter jets & an assortment of other lethal capabilities—would seem excessive for the type of strikes that #US forces have carried out on alleged drug boats since early Sept, experts said.

#Trump #law