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Less than 15% of Venezuelans voting today in sham parliamentary elections. It may be as low as 10%. Maduro’s plan: promote a fake opposition and erase last year’s historic election where he was crushed by @MariaCorinaYA. The voters know better!

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Under the noses of Maduro’s feared intelligence services, several political prisoners slipped out of Venezuela in what appears to be a major exfiltration operation. This isn’t an escape… it’s a breach. A regime that tortures and imprisons thousands can’t even guard its own.

González would have us believe that history vindicates his approach. It does not. The regime has gained time and resources. The opposition has been undermined. And the democratic cause has been dragged back to the same starting line, but with less leverage and more confusion.

The most galling element of González’s worldview is its quiet elitism. His interview reveals a posture that is always negotiating above the heads of those most affected, Venezuelan civil society, human rights defenders, exiled families, political prisoners. There’s no mention of.

Nowhere is the hypocrisy clearer than in González’s framing of human rights. He claims that the U.S. didn’t negotiate democracy, it created the “conditions” for it. But while conditions were supposedly being crafted, the regime continued operating a machinery of repression.

The Chevron license wasn’t a tactical chess move, it was a geopolitical surrender dressed up as diplomacy. And it worked out beautifully for Chevron, which recouped debt, rebuilt operations, and got a head start on post-sanctions profits. For the Venezuelan people? Nothing.

Then there is the idea that pressure was futile because Maduro didn’t fall. As if the only legitimate metric of a sanctions policy is regime collapse. This is a grotesquely narrow view. The “maximum pressure” campaign dramatically reduced Maduro’s access to revenue, forced the.

Juan González’s recent interview reads less like a sober retrospective and more like a masterclass in strategic obfuscation. Beneath the veneer of pragmatism, González advances a narrative that is dishonest and betrays the democratic aspirations of an entire nation still.

In a recent interview, González attempts to reframe this decision as strategic diplomacy. He insists sanctions failed, claims Maduro had adapted, and suggests Chevron’s return to Venezuela somehow weakened the regime’s financial grip. This is a deliberate distortion of fact and.

.@Cartajuanero was Biden’s top advisor on Latin America and lead architect of one of the most morally indefensible foreign policy decisions: the Chevron license that quietly funneled billions in oil revenue into the coffers of Venezuela’s criminal regime. 🧵.

@nytimes This isn’t foreign policy: it’s a perception war with billion-dollar stakes. You have: a U.S. media apparatus laundering “intel” that sanitizes Maduro; Lobbyists and energy consultants scripting op-eds; Chevron paying off a regime indicted for narcoterrorism. And most.

On the other: @nytimes using Biden administration intel that whitewashes Maduro’s control over Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua terrorist group. That “rosy picture” was needed to justify a secret oil deal with Chevron—signed without Congressional knowledge and in contradiction of the.

There’s a battle raging in the U.S.a war of perception. On one side: @MiamiHerald reports Nicolás Maduro as a narco-dictator, head of the Cartel de los Soles, using Tren de Aragua (TdA) as paramilitary enforcers trained and deployed into 20 U.S. states 🧵.