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compare and contrast, the treatment of Cubans and Cuban Americans in Florida
But really, we're all good little US war babies and always have been throughout our natural lives...
compare and contrast, the treatment of Cubans and Cuban Americans in Florida
And those people never were in the streets singing about being commies, taking over apartment buildings, and raping/killing our citizens.
I'm not going to shed a tear over all them face losers. Send them the back!
Maduro wins
We get US hostages back
Maduro takes immigrants back, but more importantly, gets the oil.
“If President Donald Trump’s special envoy comes to discuss diplomatic issues and requests an audience with the president – who ended up receiving him in the office of the Miraflores Palace – what does that imply in formal, diplomatic, public and communication terms?”Most importantly, the fact that Trump officials are willing to meet and work with the Maduro government to carve out possible win-win solutions to some of their shared problems implies at least some degree of diplomatic recognition of Maduro as Venezuela’s head of state. As the foreign relations expert, Francisco Rodríguez notes, this marks an important change in US policy towards Venezuela:
“Since 2019, Washington recognised Juan Guaidó and then the 2015 National Assembly as legitimate representatives of Venezuela. Recognition is a matter of practical engagement. The United States maintains relations with governments that it does not consider legitimate—such as Iran, North Korea, and Russia under Putin. Diplomatic recognition is distinct from political approval.”It is also somewhat misleading to suggest that the Maduro government got nothing in return for agreeing to meet Grenell. One day after Grenell’s visit to Caracas , the license from the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the Department of the Treasury that allows the oil company Chevron to operate in Venezuela was automatically renewed for six months. The renewal was preceded by an attempt by Chevron to lobby so that the White House would not pay attention to Marco Rubio’s statements to cancel it.https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025...venezuela.htmlThe extension of Chevron’s license suggests that other operating permits given to other foreign oil companies, such as Repsol or Total, will also be renewed. As the Argentina geopolitical analyst Bruno Sgarzini notes, the renewal is vital for Venezuela because the liquidation of Chevron’s foreign currency in the exchange market allows it to keep its currency more or less stable, and therefore keep inflation more or less in check. Meanwhile, the diluents sold by Chevron and other oil companies are vital for transporting and refining the extra-heavy crude oil from the Orinoco Belt to help support overall oil production.
The biggest loser in all this process is Venezuela’s political opposition. Trump completely ignored Edmundo González’s pleas not to strike an agreement with Maduro over the deportation of Venezuelans. Venezuela’s real opposition leader, Maria Corrina Machado, admitted that Grenell’s meeting with Maduro was “a terrible look, but it is what it is.”
As we reported on January 6, a few days before Maduro’s inauguration, Trump had suggested his new government would stop buying Venezuelan oil altogether. Now, it appears to be doing the exact opposite. But as we also noted in that article, Trump already bet the house on economic sanctions, Juan Guaidó and regime change last time round, and it was a humiliating disaster, culminating, in 2023, in Guaidó’s expulsion from Colombia and his return to Florida on a US government-paid flight.
(Venezuela by the way has the world's largest proven oil reserves)
Venezuela is the third largest supplier of crude oil to the United States after Canada and Mexico, providing roughly 300,000 barrels per day, according to the United States Energy Information Administration. Most of these barrels are produced by the oil company Chevron, and they provide key business to many of Texas’ oil refining companies. They represent almost a third of Venezuela’s total oil production, estimated at almost one million barrels per day.
good cop, bad cop
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...nt/ar-AA1yAj1iRubio traveled to a military airstrip in the capital Santo Domingo where, in front of cameras, a Dominican Republic prosecutor and US law enforcement representative together taped a sign that said "seized" on a Dassault Falcon 200 jet bearing a Venezuelan flag.
"We are very grateful to the Dominican Republic for participating and cooperating with the US justice system," Rubio said in an interview with SIN News.
"The message is that when there are sanctions because they are violating human rights, they are violating a whole series of things, traveling to Iran, helping countries that really wish harm to the United States," he said, adding that "these sanctions are going to be applied and reinforced."
Dominican Republic authorities detained the aircraft last year after US authorities said it had violated unilateral US sanctions against Venezuela.
BAM!!!!!!!!
god you're trite
(Trump deposed the bus driver and put a real Chavista operator in charge)
boiled down, US armed forces did a coup for Delcy Rodriguez
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