U.S. poised to strike military targets in Venezuela

[SnakeBoy]

lol plunder

[ChumpDumper]

lol snacks didn't dispute anything

[Winehole23]

he's barely articulate

[Yonivore]

,

[ChumpDumper]

Why would oil companies compete with their own heavy crude operations they spent half a billion on in Canada?

[Blake]

It's been a fucking week, Winehole. Jeeze...

Yeah and still nothing.

How the fuck did these morons not think of a complete plan of what to do before invading? This is why it would have been great to get Congress' opinion on it.

[Blake]

It's been a fucking week, Winehole. Jeeze...

Yeah and still nothing.

How the fuck did these morons not think of a complete plan of what to do before invading? This is one reason why it would have been great to get Congress' opinion on it.

[ChumpDumper]

I'm having trouble finding a video of his complete remarks so, I grabbed them from Exxon Mobil's website...



Key Points from Woods’s Full Remarks

✔ He clearly states Venezuela is “uninvestable” today under current legal and commercial conditions.
✔ He explains Exxon’s long-term investment philosophy and what it would take to consider re-entry.
✔ He notes that Exxon is prepared to send a technical team to assess assets if certain security and legal conditions are met.
✔ His message is cautiously optimistic about opportunity, not dismissive — contingent on changes, not a flat rejection.

:lmao dumbass

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https://x.com/Acyn/status/2010525524167417940

[Winehole23]

Darren Woods didn't suck Trump's d!ck right, so Exxon is out

lol Yonivore's backflipping


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[Yonivore]

Darren Woods didn't suck Trump's d!ck right, so he's out

lol Yonivore's backflipping


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We'll see Mr. Conclusion Jumper. There are other companies. I suspect Exxon will eventually want in.

[Blake]

https://i.imgur.com/fEDNtOn.png

Dumb libs actually believe this is what's happening?

Great post, snakes.

[ChumpDumper]

We'll see Mr. Conclusion Jumper.
That's Trump's conclusion.:lol

There are other companies. I suspect Exxon will eventually want in.
If you can explain, in your own words, why Exxon would want to compete against its own multi-billion dollar heavy oil operations in Canada and Illinois, we're all ears.

[Blake]

"....Most of the large international oil majors present in the White House meeting have a long history in Venezuela, meaning they have all had their fingers burned. Two waves of oil industry nationalisation in the 1970s and 2000s forced many of them to hastily withdraw from the country, leaving behind huge losses they have yet to recoup.

"Oilfield service providers could be reluctant to commit resources in Venezuela because they’re still owed massive amount of money. So Venezuela should commit to pay oilfield service providers that debt as a way to have them in back," Welligence’s Bellorin said.
But Trump appears to be suggesting the opposite...."

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/big-oil-offers-reality-check-trumps-venezuela-dream-2026-01-12/

[Blake]

I could see Billy Bob Thornton heading there I guess for a smaller firm desperate to take a gamble

[Winehole23]

Increased availability of Venezuelan crude is, however, likely to take a toll on demand for Canadian crude, Mexican Maya, and Middle Eastern grades. The U.S. still buys 80% of Canada’s crude output, despite the recent TMX expansion improving access to Asia. This helps to keep WCS (Western Canadian Select) prices (https://oilprice.com/oil-price-charts/#prices) tied to U.S. refinery demand and alternative heavy grades. On the other hand, more Venezuelan flows are likely to benefit Mid-continent and West Coast refiners, including British Petroleum (NYSE:BP) and HF Sinclair (NYSE:DINO), thanks to greater WCS discounts if Gulf Coast demand is displaced.


That said, Venezuela’s low-hanging fruit is rather limited: According to Norwegian energy consultancy Rystad Energy, only 300-350 kbpd can be quickly restored with minimal spending from the current clip of 800,000 bpd-1 million bpd, with production beyond 1.4 mbpd requiring heavy, sustained investment.


Rystad estimates that Venezuela will require $53 billion over the next 15 years just to keep production flat at 1.1 mbpd, but could need up to $183 billion over the same period to ramp up production to over 3 million bpd, roughly equivalent to the entire North American land capex for one year.
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Venezuelan-Oil-and-the-Limits-of-US-Refining-Capacity.html

[Winehole23]

According to Kayrros, numerous oil storage tanks at the Bajo Grande and Puerto Miranda terminals are out of order due to corrosion and a lack of maintenance. But this is an industrywide problem: Kayrros estimates that roughly a third of Venezuela’s storage capacity is currently inactive, reflecting unusable storage tanks, reduced refinery operating rates, and declining oil production. Meanwhile, operations at the large interconnected Amuay and Cardón refineries are running below 20% of capacity, essentially turning them into “de facto storage centres” according to the experts.

Not surprisingly, Venezuela’s pipeline network is in a similar state of disrepair: A leaked document from PDVSA in 2021 revealed that the country’s oil pipelines had not been updated in 50 years, with Venezuela’s National Oil Company estimating it would take a staggering $58 billion to get them back in peak condition. Recent estimates have placed the figure in excess of $100 billion (https://www.ft.com/content/b6d029d3-51cd-4cb5-9173-c24bae327daf). Venezuela’s operational oil pipeline network has a total length of 2,139 miles (approximately 3,442 kilometers). For some perspective, the UAE, which produces approximately 3.2 million bpd, has ~9,000 km of oil pipeline.

[ChumpDumper]

I kind of suspect Trump Oil is going to come into existence sometime soon.

[Blake]

I kind of suspect Trump Oil is going to come into existence sometime soon.

Which will inevitably need a government bailout. Or huge govt contract or something.

[Winehole23]

this is not lawful, this is piratical

lol "at least some of the revenue"



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[ChumpDumper]

:lmao "neutral"

[Millennial_Messiah]

You gonna enlist?

Too old for anything except the air force reserve. I can't swim so I can't even join the navy.


But in the wake of these ICE riots, this sentiment holds even more true, if we had these idiots actually in military uniform instead of trying to fight our own government's efforts to remove third world moochers and criminals from our country, then we would have a much more unified country, like with WW2 and even early stage Iraq/Afghanistan.

[Winehole23]

that's Nazi talk, tbh

[Millennial_Messiah]

Iran, Venezuela, let's get 'em both. Re-establish them as allies and opec friendlies to compete with the Saudi's etc. The Saudi vs Iran hate is not about religion i.e. Sunni vs Shia, it's about oil supremacy 100%. Encourage free and fair competition. End the tariffs, bring back free trade.


Let's imagine we took every single one of those draft age eligible "no kings" and anti-ICE rioters, most of which are unemployed living with family anyway, and drafted them to maintain Iran and Venezuela. We would have near zero domestic conflict like the crap we've seen in Minnesota and Portland and other places recently, and we would have a very strong peace through strength, American exceptionalist foreign policy that would reign over the world. And ICE would be free to actually do their job of rounding up, seizing, and deporting all of the illegals, ending migrant crime.

Everyone unemployed (and not actively in fulltime higher education) under 30 should be draft eligible. That would solve a lot of the black-on-black crime in the big urban cities as well.

[Winehole23]

^^^ cooked

[Millennial_Messiah]

I really hope Rubio and not Vance is the next GOP nominee. Rubio is most similar to Bush and Reagan and life was best and least polarized when they were President.

Contrary to leftist popular belief, Obama and not Trump was the starting point of the divisive polarization era. BLM started in the early 2010s, not late 2010s, "my son would have looked JUST like Trayvon", etc. Obama was Divider-In-Chief and Trump has just been the opposite inverse. It's time to return to an era before 2008.

[Millennial_Messiah]

that's Nazi talk, tbh

There's nothing wrong with banning third world immigration and being against freeloaders. It's not like I'm advocating for genocide or something.

[Winehole23]

yes it is

[Winehole23]

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[Blake]

There's nothing wrong with banning third world immigration and being against freeloaders. It's not like I'm advocating for genocide or something.

Nobody is "for" free loaders

[Blake]

I really hope Rubio and not Vance is the next GOP nominee. Rubio is most similar to Bush and Reagan and life was best and least polarized when they were President.

Contrary to leftist popular belief, Obama and not Trump was the starting point of the divisive polarization era. BLM started in the early 2010s, not late 2010s, "my son would have looked JUST like Trayvon", etc. Obama was Divider-In-Chief and Trump has just been the opposite inverse. It's time to return to an era before 2008.

Rubio is a weasly piece of shit. No way he beats Vance in any way.

[Blake]

Iran, Venezuela, let's get 'em both. Re-establish them as allies and opec friendlies to compete with the Saudi's etc. The Saudi vs Iran hate is not about religion i.e. Sunni vs Shia, it's about oil supremacy 100%. Encourage free and fair competition. End the tariffs, bring back free trade.


Let's imagine we took every single one of those draft age eligible "no kings" and anti-ICE rioters, most of which are unemployed living with family anyway, and drafted them to maintain Iran and Venezuela. We would have near zero domestic conflict like the crap we've seen in Minnesota and Portland and other places recently, and we would have a very strong peace through strength, American exceptionalist foreign policy that would reign over the world. And ICE would be free to actually do their job of rounding up, seizing, and deporting all of the illegals, ending migrant crime.

Everyone unemployed (and not actively in fulltime higher education) under 30 should be draft eligible. That would solve a lot of the black-on-black crime in the big urban cities as well.

You're a weird dumb dude

[Winehole23]

Current events sound insane when straightforwardly described


Trump invaded Venezuela, kidnapped its president, stole a bunch of its oil, sold it, and stashed the money in banks in Qatar

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

Rand Paul: "To say it's not a war in Venezuela -- we still have hundreds of ships with a 100% blockade of the coast. That is an act of war. It's an ongoing war. To continue to take their oil -- ongoing war."

[Winehole23]

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[ChumpDumper]

Trumptards don't care about the Constitution.

[Winehole23]

obviously not, except for a few weirdos

[Winehole23]

in a word, imperialism

(from the 2026 National Defense Strategy)



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[Winehole23]

Word Counts:

Homeland: 27
China: 23
Iran: 13
Border: 11
Israel: 10Monroe Doctrine: 5
Greenland: 5
illegal aliens/migration: 5

Ukraine: 4
Taiwan: 0

https://media.defense.gov/2026/Jan/23/2003864773/-1/-1/0/2026-NATIONAL-DEFENSE-STRATEGY.PDF

[Winehole23]

definition is a b!tch, most of Venezuela's oil is not economically recoverable at current prices



The foundation of Venezuela’s reserve claim lies in the Orinoco Oil Belt, a vast region containing extra-heavy crude and bitumen-like hydrocarbons. The oil is unquestionably real and enormous in scale. U.S. Geological Survey estimates (https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2009/3028/pdf/FS09-3028.pdf) suggest more than one trillion barrels of oil in place.

But oil in place is not the same thing as oil that can be economically produced, transported, refined, and sold. It bears little resemblance to the light, free-flowing crude produced in places like Saudi Arabia or West Texas. In practical terms, it is far closer to Canada’s oil sands.

Orinoco crude must first be mined or thermally produced, then upgraded into a synthetic crude before it can reach global markets. That makes production capital-intensive, technologically complex, and highly sensitive to oil prices.
For decades, most of this oil was classified not as reserves, but as resources—hydrocarbons known to exist but not considered economically recoverable.

In the early 2000s, Venezuela’s proven oil reserves were far more modest by global standards. Around 2005, official estimates placed the country’s reserves (https://www.apolloacademy.com/venezuelas-self-reported-oil-reserves/#:~:text=Venezuela's%20self%2Dreported%20crude%20o il,see%20the%20first%20chart%20below.) at roughly 77 to 80 billion barrels, consisting primarily of conventional crude. That figure put Venezuela well behind Saudi Arabia and several other major producers. For context, today an 80-billion-barrel reserve base would rank eighth in the world.Under OPEC guidelines and U.S. SEC reporting rules, a barrel of oil only qualifies as a proven reserve if it can be economically recovered at prevailing oil prices using existing technology. That definition is more economic than geological—and it is central to what happened next.

At the time, oil prices averaged around $25 per barrel. At those levels, the cost of extracting and upgrading Orinoco crude exceeded the value of the finished product. The oil was physically present, but economically stranded.https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Only-a-Fraction-of-Venezuelas-Oil-Is-Economically-Recoverable.html

[Winehole23]

That changed as oil prices surged. By 2008, crude prices were approaching $140 per barrel. As oil prices rose, projects that had once been marginal suddenly appeared economic—at least on paper.


With higher prices and improving extraction technology, Venezuela’s national oil company, PDVSA, was able to reclassify large portions of the Orinoco from “resources” into “proven reserves” under prevailing reserve definitions. This process was formalized through a government initiative known as the Magna Reserva Project (https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/1844/), launched under Hugo Chávez to certify oil “in place” across the Orinoco Belt.


Between 2005 and 2011, Venezuela’s reported reserves nearly quadrupled—from under 80 billion barrels to nearly 300 billion—without a corresponding surge in discoveries or production. The transformation was largely statistical, not physical.


But independent estimates highlight the gap between headline reserve numbers and economic reality.Rystad Energy (https://thedeepdive.ca/does-venezuela-really-have-300-billion-barrels-of-oil/), for example, estimates Venezuela’s economically recoverable oil at roughly 29 billion barrels — about one-tenth of the official total. That estimate reflects realistic assumptions about production costs, infrastructure requirements, and oil prices.

[Winehole23]

RUBIO SAYS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS PREPARED TO USE MILITARY FORCE IF NEEDED TO FORCE VENEZUELA’S ACTING LEADER DELCY RODRÍGUEZ TO COOPERATE WITH THE U.S., INCLUDING OPENING THE OIL SECTOR TO AMERICAN COMPANIES, AS WASHINGTON STEPS UP NAVAL DEPLOYMENTS AND OIL SHIPMENTare we not in charge there already?

[ChumpDumper]

:lol the oil companies don't want that shitty oil.

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

RAND PAUL: If a country bombed our air defense missiles, captured & removed our president, & blockaded our country, would that be considered an act of war?

RUBIO: We just don't believe this operation comes anywhere close to the constitutional definition

PAUL: Of course it would be an act of war!https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mdioylsivi22

[Winehole23]

knock-on: the US blockading Cuba

if no deal is done, hello Mariel Boatlift 2.0


Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has said that his government is in talks with the Trump administration to find solutions to the two countries' differences, as the Caribbean country continues to face the effects of a US oil blockade.

Díaz-Canel said no fuel had entered Cuba in three months.

Talks between the two nations were in their initial stages, said Díaz-Canel, who is leading the Cuban side of negotiations, in a national broadcast on Friday.

US President Donald Trump said on Monday that Cuba was in "deep trouble" as he threatened a "friendly takeover".

Cuba is experiencing several blackouts (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2ggpq1742o) as the island struggles with fuel shortages, which have been made worse by pressure from the US.

Since returning to the White House, Trump has made clear his desire to change Cuba's leadership. He has also threatened tariffs on goods imported into the US from any country that gives Cuba oil.

The White House told the BBC on Friday that: "As the president stated, we are talking to Cuba, whose leaders should make a deal, which he believes 'would be very easily made'".

Havana relies heavily on imported fuel for its electricity and the US has seized a number of oil shipments bound for Cuba.

Venezuela was believed to have sent around 35,000 barrels of oil a day to Cuba, providing about half the island's oil needs. But Washington's Venezuela raid - and capture of President Nicolás Maduro - in early January has disrupted the arrangement.

In his national broadcast, Díaz-Canel said that not having fuel enter Cuba for the past three months has led to the gradual decline of diesel and fuel oil reserves. Given this, the country's electrical grid has become increasingly "unstable", he said.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy8zv9gp0go

[Winehole23]

Sending Rubio to install the Castros to run the US protectorate in Cuba wasn't on my 2026 bingo card


The Trump administration is seeking to oust the president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, in its talks with Cuban political leaders. It plans to allow the Castro family to keep power if they agree to economic changes, creating a client state for the US.https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/world/americas/trump-cuba-president-diaz-canel.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TlA.Ygf9.a5SMOw YKG0cM

[Winehole23]

btw, the US blockade that's forcing Cuba to the table has been barbaric and inhumane

no shipments of oil have landed in Cuba in weeks, and today Cuba's grid collapsed

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/16/americas/cuba-power-grid-collapse-intl-latam

[Winehole23]

the US energy blockade of Cuba is catastrophic


Without oil, there’s no electricity to pump water much less treat it. How are 10 million people suddenly expected to forage for water — or wood to boil it? Or food — which can no longer be refrigerated? The humanitarian disaster is here and Donald Trump caused it. This is insane.

[Winehole23]

In Iran, US attacks have resulted in IRGC consolidating power and exercising de facto control of Hormuz

In Venezeula, hardliners are also consolidating power after US armed forces abducted Maduro, propelling Delcy Rodriguez to power


For a decade, Gustavo González López oversaw Venezuela’s torture dungeons and spy networks. His secret police became a cudgel for strongman Nicolás Maduro. Opponents were disappeared, protesters rounded up and González was sanctioned by the US, EU and UK.Now, the US-backed interim president Delcy Rodríguez has promoted the baby-faced 65-year-old to defence minister, as she seeks to shore up power.

The move, analysts say, encapsulates the changes to Venezuela’s government since the US whisked Maduro to a Brooklyn jail in January: the same brutal regime, with faces that are friendlier to Washington.“He signals the continuation of the repressive dictatorship we have been living through. It’s a step in the wrong direction . . . he’s been the chief torturer in charge of political oppression,” said Ricardo Hausmann, a Venezuelan former minister in the 1990s and now a professor at Harvard.

González was central to quashing protests that broke out in 2014, 2017 and 2019. Hundreds were locked up in prisons such as El Helicoide, an unfinished shopping centre repurposed into the country’s most notorious torture chamber. Another jail, nicknamed “the tomb”, was expanded in the basement of the intelligence agency Sebin’s headquarters in central Caracas.as.ft.com/r/d091e3ec-f... (https://as.ft.com/r/d091e3ec-fa78-44e2-baa8-24601bda0490)

[Winehole23]

wild

tribute for the boss?


U.S. INTERIOR SECRETARY BURGUM SAYS HE BROUGHT BACK $100 MILLION WORTH OF PHYSICAL GOLD FROM HIS VISIT TO VENEZUELA

[Winehole23]

ah, here's a cite


The U.S. issued a license Friday that authorizes dealings with Minerven, Venezuela’s state-owned gold mining company, in the latest sign of the Trump administration’s intent to exercise more control over that country’s natural resources.


The license was issued after U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum met in Venezuela with acting President Delcy Rodríguez this week, as well as with representatives of more than two dozen U.S. mining and minerals companies. Many of them previously operated in Venezuela.


Burgum said Venezuela’s government gave security assurances to mining companies interested in investing in the country, where mineral-rich areas have long been controlled by guerrilla members, gangs and other illegal groups.
Under the license, people and companies from Russia, Iran, North Korea and Cuba are not authorized to engage in any contracts with Minerven
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/international/2026/03/06/us-issues-a-license-that-authorizes-sales-of-venezuelan-gold/

[Winehole23]

Trump in his benevolence and mercy has allowed one Russian oil tanker to break the US embargo that sparked a still unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in Cuba

[Winehole23]

I guess Trump would like to avoid a Mariel II type scene while they're fighting an intensely destructive war of choice in the middle east

[Winehole23]

Marco Rubio soliciting the Castros to run the prospective US satrapy in Cuba is a thing


U.S. State Dept officials met last Friday in Havana with their Cuban counterparts —including Raulito “El Cangrejo” Castro, the grandson of Raul Castro.https://www.axios.com/2026/04/17/cuba-negotiations-trump-havana-castro

[Winehole23]

a blockade is a per se act of war

blockading energy is a per se humanitarian atrocity

what did Cuba do to the USA to deserve all this?


Senate Republicans on Tuesday killed a Democratic resolution that would have required President Trump to get Congress’s approval to keep blockading Cuba

[velik_m]

As the U.S. starves it of oil, Cuba is pulling off one of the fastest solar revolutions on the planet — with China’s help

Cuba is struggling with devastating nationwide blackouts as the United States’ effective oil blockade strangles fuel supplies. But this crisis may also be accelerating a China-backed clean energy revolution that’s been quietly unfolding in the Caribbean nation.

Cuba is currently pulling off one of the fastest solar revolutions on the planet, with help from China, according to data from the energy think tank Ember. Imports of Chinese solar panels and batteries have soared over the past year and, with Chinese investment, Cuba has built dozens of solar parks.

The country is still heavily dependent on fossil fuels, but some experts believe the intense U.S. pressure — with threats to take “control” of the island — may hasten Cuba’s path toward clean energy. More renewables mean less dependence on fuel imports, helping “remove this lever of coercion,” said Kevin Cashman, an economist with the Transition Security Project, a U.S.-U.K. research organization.

...

A big part of the country’s clean energy push is an agreement with China to open 92 solar parks across the country by 2028, projected to bring a total of 2 gigawatts of solar power online, enough to power more than 1.5 million homes.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel opened the first in February 2025 and there are now around 50 online, dotted across the island. Cuba has installed around 1 gigawatt of solar in the last 12 months alone, Graham said, “that does actually make a pretty meaningful dent in the in the power mix of a country the size of Cuba.”

Renewable energy now makes up roughly 10% of Cuba’s electricity, up from around 3% in 2024. “It’s a really, really rapid boom,” Graham said. The country has pledged that figure will rise to at least 24% by 2030.

The benefits of solar for Cuba are clear. Costs of clean technology have plummeted in recent years and solar is relatively fast to install, Graham said. The infrastructure lasts decades and, once set up, needs only sunshine.

There’s a benefit for China, too, which goes beyond financial, said Jorge Piñon, a senior research collaborator at the University of Texas’s Energy Institute. It will “build goodwill, not only goodwill within Cuba but goodwill with the rest of Latin America,” Piñon said.

...


https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/as-the-us-starves-it-of-oil-cuba-is-pulling-off-one-of-the-fastest-solar-revolutions-on-the-planet-with-chinas-help/

[Blake]

a blockade is a per se act of war

blockading energy is a per se humanitarian atrocity

what did Cuba do to the USA to deserve all this?

Conspiracy theorist in me says just more collateral damage from Trump saying "look over here" instead of at the Epstein files.

That's all I can come up with for all this crazy shit he's coming up with

[Winehole23]

the US has no good reason for doing this to Cuba

definite fodder for Nuremberg 2.0


Senior UN officials warned Friday of a deteriorating humanitarian situation in Cuba, urging immediate delivery of life-saving aid as power outages strain hospitals and health facilities across the island.


"My call is simple: life-saving aid must reach people quickly and without delays," Edem Wosornu, director of the Crisis Response Division at the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), told reporters virtually following a mission to Cuba.


"The longer it takes, the weaker and the stronger the vulnerability gets."


"Acting fast and working together is the only way to stop the situation from getting worse. We can't afford another humanitarian crisis. We already have a stretched humanitarian situation on the ground across all sectors," she added.


Altaf Musani, director of emergency health interventions at the World Health Organization (WHO), said neonatal care is among the most vulnerable sectors, and that life-saving equipment depends on a stable power supply that is not currently being sustained.
"Power outages are forcing health facilities to reduce vital services, prioritize urgent care, and limit diagnostic and surgical operations," he said, adding that health care workers and parents alike are being forced to make "impossible choices."


Cuba is facing a fuel crisis amid a US oil embargo imposed on Jan. 30, along with widespread power outages.
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/life-saving-aid-must-reach-cuba-quickly-and-without-delays-un-warns-amid-us-blockade/3938997

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

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[Blake]

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Yeah but January 6...

[velik_m]

AP Exclusive: Trump administration tells prosecutors to stand down on Venezuela leader, sources say

MIAMI (AP) — The Trump administration has quietly instructed federal prosecutors in Miami to avoid pursuing criminal investigations into Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez, a longtime target of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, according to current and former U.S. law enforcement officials, in the latest sign of warming relations between the White House and the oil-rich nation.

It’s unclear whether prosecutors had implicated Rodríguez in any crimes or whether investigators were moving toward an indictment. A Justice Department spokesperson said in an email “there was never an investigation into her to shut down.”

But DEA records obtained by The Associated Press earlier this year show she consistently surfaced on the radar of federal law enforcement dating to at least 2018, though she has never been criminally charged in the U.S. like several other senior Venezuelan officials.

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https://apnews.com/article/federal-prosecutors-venezuela-rodriguez-avoid-criminal-investigations-07226dea025e16afcf8ca3e39280fd76

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this is totally fucked up bullshit


The Pentagon has spent months positioning the troops and weapons needed for the U.S. to launch a military attack on Cuba — all it needs is a final go-ahead from Donald Trump.https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/27/cuba-us-military-attack-00938740

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Guatemala has agreed to carry out joint strikes with the US military on its territory to target drug trafficking groups, The New York Times reported on Thursday (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/world/americas/guatemala-us-joint-strikes.html), as the Trump administration continues escalating its military interventions across Latin America.


The report said that Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo held a call with US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth last week and agreed to allow both airstrikes and other military action, and joint military operations could begin next month.


Guatemala has become the second country in the region to allow the US military to take part in its war on drugs, after Ecuador, where US military personnel are advising and assisting Ecuadorian troops. The Times previously reported (https://archive.vn/C3IjE) that one of the first operations involved bombing what the US and Ecuador claimed was a drug camp, but turned out to be a dairy farm.
https://news.antiwar.com/2026/05/28/guatemala-agrees-to-allow-us-airstrikes-on-its-territory-as-us-escalates-military-interventions-in-latin-america/