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#venezuela

Espina humorously admitted to oversleeping on a significant news day, stating, 'Breaking news, mi gente! I can't believe it.' His videos celebrated Maduro's fall but also expressed concern about the complexities of the situation.

The consolidation of an adaptive authoritarianism with global impact represents a kind of 21st-century colonialism, influenced by the Trump administration's interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine. This model seeks economic efficiency and limited tolerance for dissent, while configuring an ideal opposition that lacks real power to contest authority.

Leopoldo Lopez recalls his time in Ramo Verde prison, expressing a desire for it to become a museum of memory, symbolizing the struggle against the Maduro regime. He believes the transition in Venezuela is beginning, especially after Maduro's imprisonment, but emphasizes that the political transition remains an unfinished task requiring a legitimate government through elections.

On January 3, 2026, Tim Stern, a German investor, was sleeping peacefully at his Venezuela residence when the phone on his small bedside table suddenly went wild. As he explained to Timothy Allen of the " Free Cities Podcast," calls streamed in immediately after news broke that the United States had bombed Caracas in the early hours of the morning. Within hours, it was clear that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro had been captured and was being sent to the United States - a change, Stern said in the podcast, that "is going to be the start of an absolute bonanza here in Venezuela."

Rather than triggering immediate elections as Venezuelan law, the Supreme Court declared Maduro's capture a absence, allowing Rodríguez to govern indefinitely without a popular mandate. "The regime used a legal mechanism to maintain institutional control while avoiding an immediate electoral process," Mauricio Vaquero, country coordinator for María Corina Machado's Vente Venezuela party in Colombia, tells The Cipher Brief. "The Supreme Court decided she would assume as interim president, but a Chavista Supreme Court, not the democratic legal one." In other words, the same loyalist judges who helped Maduro stay in power are now using constitutional loopholes to keep his inner circle in charge.

At the direction of the commander of U.S. Southern Command, Marine Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted three lethal kinetic strikes on three vessels operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations, Southern Command said in the statement, which as has become customary was accompanied by a video showing the boats exploding after being hit by a missile. Intelligence confirmed the vessels were transiting along known narco-trafficking routes and were engaged in narco-trafficking operations, it added.

It is an honour to stand here with you today and to be among the tremendous people of Venezuela, Wright said. He then proceeded to acknowledge the tensions in recent decades between the two countries. But Wright hinted at change under the Trump administration. He also indicated the US president would take a hemisphere-wide approach to his campaign slogan, Make America Great Again.

The only thing I could say is that there will not be an election in this immediate period of time where the stabilisation has to be achieved, Rodriguez replied. He explained that the decision is tied to a wider effort to rebuild and strengthen Venezuela's state institutions. What we're working on at the moment is what we call the re-institutionalisation of the country, so that every single institution of the country can again be brought to full power and full recognition by everybody, he said.