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Posted 1/05/2026

Nicolas Maduro has been "captured" by the U.S. military in a shocking raid that took place in the wee hours of the night in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital. Familiar words like 'dictator,' 'regime,' and 'liberation' were tossed around to support the mission, which is tantamount to kidnapping and armed robbery. We have been told that Maduro and his forces have been starving people, and the propaganda is conceivably deja vu to those old enough to remember. In the case of Maduro, not only has he been accused of maltreatment of his people, but he's also been accused of being a major player in the drug world. Somewhere along the line, the term "narcoterrorism" was adopted - a term coined back in 1983 by Peru's President Fernando Belaúnde Terry to describe attacks by drug traffickers targeting his nation's anti-narcotics police.

Pablo Escobar, who headed the Colombian Medellin cartel, is often cited as the primary example of a narco-terrorist due to his bombing of Avianca Flight 203 and the DAS Building, but the word hasn't surfaced in quite some time. "El Chapo" Guzmán, the infamous drug kingpin and former head of the Sinaloa cartel operating in Mexico, wasn't referred to as a narco-terrorist. This terminology serves as a legal bridge from "police work" to "warfare." Drugs have been coming from Colombia, through Mexico, probably before the remake of the Scarface movie, which starred Al Pacino.

Mexico is notorious for violent drug cartels like the Sinaloa cartel and others like the Jalisco New Generation Cartel. An American woman, Latavia Washington McGee, journeyed from the states to Mexico to save money on a cosmetic procedure, and part of her entourage was killed for being suspected competition to the local drug traffickers... Click Here.  Ms. McGee's situation may have been the justification for the United States to intensify the war on drugs after public outcry. 

Iraq was invaded in 1990 by the Bush Sr. Administration after Iraq invaded Kuwait. Evidently, some felt Saddam Hussein was seeking to take control of the world's oil, and they presumed Saudi Arabia would be next. Well, it's been almost 40 years, and U.S. forces still occupy the region under a facade of advising Iraqi forces against ISIS and teaching counterterrorism tactics. Despite convoluted narratives, Iraqi oil was, in effect, seized - 145 billion barrels. The U.S. gained significant influence over Iraq's vast reserves, with U.S. companies securing lucrative contracts and oil revenue channeled through U.S.-controlled accounts. This all began under the pretext of ousting a 'brutal' dictator in Saddam Hussein and liberating the Iraqi people when over a quarter million of them were killed by their liberators.

As this tragedy unfolded, it never materialized into U.S. citizens saving money at the pump or on their heat bill - in fact, prices rose. The primary beneficiaries of "liberation" are often corporations rather than the average consumer. The other beneficiary is the mighty United States military because it all runs on gas. What's curious is that as such acts were perpetrated, it became a race to find and photograph those that championed the cause and disseminate their images. Older Americans may remember Hussein's statue being toppled, his pictures being torn down, etc. In a similar fashion, people have been filmed celebrating the capture of Maduro... Click Here.

The attack by the Trump administration has been admonished by some world leaders, as some may be starting to recognize a familiar pattern. Not long after Iraq was invaded for the second time in 2003 by the Bush Jr. Administration, under the guise that weapons of mass destruction were being constructed, a few countries in the Middle East soon found themselves an enemy of the United States, too - Syria, Iran (209 billion barrels of oil), and Afghanistan. President Trump hinted that Cuba, Mexico, and other nations in the Caribbean should be on alert. After Maduro was taken into custody, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer remarked that Congress needed to convene, retrospectively, to discuss limitations of what Trump's Administration can do in the future... Click Here.

Clearly no one is making an effort to undo the events that unfolded surrounding Maduro being taken into custody. Maduro definitely isn't a figurehead of the only corrupt government in the world that takes advantage of their citizens and keeps them poor. It is increasingly becoming United States policy to dictate to countries how they should handle their affairs. Nations with people of color are easy targets - they are mostly defenseless and resource-rich. It's a fact. Since 1990, over 90% of U.S. military interventions have occurred in the Global South (Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia). Americans may not wish to be complicit in evil, but that's how we're viewed across the globe. Now the Trump Administration is seeking to manage Venezuela and their 303 billion barrels of oil