Sunday, January 04, 2026

Venezuela VP Demands Trump Release Maduro

Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez on Saturday demanded that the U.S. free President Nicolás Maduro following his capture in his own nation.

Posted by Corky at 08:32 AM | 26 COMMENTS | permalink

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VP Delcy Rodriguez, whom Trump indicated earlier today was collaborating with the US government, is live on television right now. Earlier reports that she's in Russia are false. She's in Caracas with the rest of the cabinet. Rodriguez: "We will never again be a colony for any empire"

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-- Giancarlo Fiorella (@giancarlofiorella.bsky.social) Jan 3, 2026 at 2:17 PM

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"President Donald Trump during a news conference said Rodrguez had been sworn in as president shortly before he spoke to reporters and added she had spoken with Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

"She is essentially willing to do what we think is necessary to make Venezuela great again. Very simple," Trump said."

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Trump lied? How shocking it that!

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-03 10:58 PM

Trump lied? How shocking it that!

It's his superpower.

#2 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-01-03 11:12 PM

Somebody wake up Nap-oleon

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-01-04 02:22 AM

Things start to go wrong in Venezuela already.

The first US serviceman to die in Venezuela is known to someone reading this blog.

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-04 08:45 AM

A de facto State of War now exists between the United States and Venezuela.

Gee, I wonder what the implications of that might be?

Any of you MAGA neocons want to weigh in?

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-04 08:59 AM

This is the woman I just saw walk outside to thundering applause as people yelled trump's name...

----and the only liars are you people.....figures that you're cowards leaving out the whole story.

---liars.....gd liars....

#6 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-01-04 09:21 AM

and for you meathead pinhead dopes...here's the secret ......

"Earlier, opposition leader Mara Corina Machado said that the opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzlez should assume power, saying that he rightfully won the 2024 presidential election."

--she's started a power grab......and you effing idiots are too stupid to understand.

#7 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-01-04 09:27 AM

Any of you MAGA neocons want to weigh in?

#5 | Posted by Zed a

we've been weighing in and exposing the idiotic brainless hypocrisy and blatant dishonesty

of "you people" and every other democrat...despicable worthless lying sacks of S......as well as your callous

public unconcern for human life in V.

----no matter how much you lecture and preach and talk S....about how you care more for kids but don't give

a ---- that dems have stolen money right out of their mouths.....and now that you PROVE you don't

give a GD ---- about the lives of the people of Venezuela.......2 faced effing hypocritical lying garbage,

#8 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-01-04 09:31 AM

Food for thought for people who are capable of thought:

Seth Abramson
@sethabramson.bsky.social

Edmundo Gonzlez Urrutia won the 2024 election in Venezuela. He was the choice of the people.

The Maduro-Delcy Rodrguez ticket stole power instead.

Now Trump says he is freeing the Venezuelan people by making Rodrguez his puppet.

So no, there is *nothing* to celebrate today.

Trump replaced one Venezuelan dictator with two: himself and Maduro's top lackey. Then he declared that Venezuela's opposition"which represents a majority of the people"is irrelevant, and added that he'll be ruling Venezuela and stealing its oil. Anyone celebrating is delusional.

bsky.app

#9 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2026-01-04 09:39 AM

give a GD ---- about the lives of the people of Venezuela

#8 | Posted by shrimptacodan

Oh, I remember you. In 2003 you told me that I didn't give a GDF about the lives of the people of Iraq.

#10 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-04 09:56 AM

Things start to go wrong in Venezuela already.
The first US serviceman to die in Venezuela is known to someone reading this blog.

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-04 08:45 AM | Reply | Flag

Hi Zed:

I hope this is just a rumor or unconfirmed story. I haven't seen any public reporting of a US servicemember KIA so far.

If this is true, our Servicemember tragically died for oil and capitalism, not like Ukrainians or Palestinians fighting and dying for their very survival.

BTW: We haven't read anything from CLOWNSHACK in weeks; hope all is well with our Fellow Traveler.

#11 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-04 09:59 AM

When does Machado prance onstage for her Crown?

If this is about "Democracy" why is Trump saying she lacks popular support as President? Why is she being Sidelined?

Did Maduro actually win?

? What Gives?

Was all this for something other than the well being of The Venezuelan People?

#12 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-01-04 11:46 AM

Sheesh people. It hasn't even been 48 hours yet. Did you think that a new government would be magically put in place overnight, or that the existing one would just step down or submit without any face-saving measures?

#13 | Posted by sentinel at 2026-01-04 02:24 PM

"Was all this for something other than the well being of The Venezuelan People?"

The primary reason is for regional stability and security, in response to the crisis fueled by the Putin/Xi-backed regime that displaced 8 million people. Regardless of what anyone says, everything else is a sidenote to that, even Trump's grifting.

#14 | Posted by sentinel at 2026-01-04 02:30 PM

"Did you think that a new government would be magically put in place overnight"

There wasn't any plan for a new government.
Got it.

#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-04 02:53 PM

@#15 ... There wasn't any plan for a new government. ...

That's the way it is looking.

Now the Trump admin is likely trying to figure out ... what next?

For starters, what might be done with all those Pres Maduro loyalists who are still running the government?

And then there is the oil, which Pres Trump mentioned many, many times in his press conference. How will be deal with that?

The oil wells are far from the oil processing plants. How will Pres Trump protect the oil while it is in transit? US Troops protecting the pipelines and trucks?

#16 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-04 03:12 PM

The SANCTIONS ON THAT REGIME DISPLACED 8 MILLION PEOPLE.

At least get the facts straight.

US policy created the problem and they knew it.

So again, How is this any benefit to the "Venezuelan People"?

Just Ending the Sanctions would have stopped the exodus from Venezuela.

Why didn't they try that?

#17 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-01-04 03:13 PM

The primary reason is for regional stability and security
#14 | Posted by sentinel

Whose stability and security?

#18 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-04 03:19 PM

Pres Maduro seems to be held in a notoriously bad prison in Brooklyn, NY.

I wonder if Pres Trump will give him the same level of presidential immunity that SCOTUS gave to Pres Trump?

#19 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-04 03:33 PM

Nazis and Russians are ------- retarded.

#20 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-01-04 04:41 PM

If Maduro could alibi djt for his Epstein crimes... he could maybe get a condo inside the Fed Club in TX with Gstring Maxwell.

#21 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-04 06:14 PM

"The SANCTIONS ON THAT REGIME DISPLACED 8 MILLION PEOPLE."

Factually untrue. Prior to Trump (the guy you voted for), the sanctions were very limited and targeted, but there were still millions of people displaced and hyperinflation. The sanctions didn't cause the regime's human rights violations, corruption or mismanagement. They were in response to them.

"Just Ending the Sanctions would have stopped the exodus from Venezuela."

What are you basing this on, other than wishful fairytale thinking and ignorance? Most of the analyses I've read suggest that there would have been at most about one million fewer refugees if there were no sanctions at all.

#22 | Posted by sentinel at 2026-01-04 08:50 PM

#4, still no report of a servicemember's death.
Apparently, Madura was using Cubans as part of his security detail. Several of them did. Several sources quote Cuban sources as 32 died.

#23 | Posted by mattm at 2026-01-05 08:20 AM

Sanctions weren't helpful.

They make life harder not easier.

One million people is a lot.

By what Authority are Sanctions placed to begin with?

What not help the Venezuelan people instead of impoverishing them because their government is not approved of by American Leaders?

Free Trade, Open Borders. Same with Cuba.

Why Embargo innocent people to punish their leaders for not being Capitalists?

Free trade would Free Cuba Quicker than 70 years of ineffective Isolation that makes a bunker mentality inevitable.

Sanctions and Embargoes are acts of War.

The U S has been ar War with Cuba and Venezuela for Decades.

Why?

#24 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-01-05 11:02 AM

"She is essentially willing to do what we think is necessary to make Venezuela great again. Very simple," Trump said."
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Trump lied? How shocking it that!
#1 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-03 10:58 PM | Reply | Flag:
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Um, that's what she said when Rubio talked to her. If that's not the case than she lied. You should see an OA about that jerking knee of yours.

#25 | Posted by fishpaw at 2026-01-05 11:27 AM

that's what she said when Rubio talked to her.

#25 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

LOL.

What's she saying now?

The Maduro government is still in charge.

Who will be the first US serviceman to die to change that?

No one knows, but it's certain that Donald Trump doesn't give s sh--.

#26 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-05 11:40 AM

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