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BREAKING: Venezuela’s former Chief of National Intelligence Hugo Carvajal has OFFICIALLY RELEASED every U.S. Senator who is on THE VENEZUELA LIST of politicians who have been receiving MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN KICKBACKS from the Maduro regime and Venezuelan drug trafficking organizations that make up his government in exchange for using their government positions and influence to undermine President Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s ongoing war with these narcoterrorists.

It can't be only about oil, or that oil is the main priority as far as Venezuela.


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BREAKING: Venezuela’s former Chief of National Intelligence Hugo Carvajal has OFFICIALLY RELEASED every U.S. Senator who is on THE VENEZUELA LIST of politicians who have been receiving MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN KICKBACKS from the Maduro regime and Venezuelan drug trafficking organizations that make up his government in exchange for using their government positions and influence to undermine President Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s ongoing war with these narcoterrorists.
Every one of these Senators is guilty of providing aid and comfort to THE ENEMY during a time of war and has the blood of their fellow American citizens.
(HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of whom die of drug overdoses every year at the hands of these criminal drug trafficking organizations that bring deadly drugs into our country) on their hands.
May each and every one of them be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and may their names forever live in shame for their treason.
Below is EVERY U.S. SENATOR ON THE VENEZUELA LIST:
Lisa Murkowski - R - Alaska
Mark Kelly - D - Arizona
Ruben Gallego - D - Arizona
Alex Padilla - D - California
Adam Schiff - D - California
Michael Bennet - D - Colorado
John Hickenlooper - D - Colorado
Richard Blumenthal - D - Connecticut
Chris Murphy - D - Connecticut
Chris Coons - D - Delaware
Jon Ossoff - D - Georgia
Raphael Warnock - D - Georgia
Brian Schatz - D - Hawaii
Mazie Hirono - D - Hawaii
Dick Durbin - D - Illinois
Tammy Duckworth - D - Illinois
Chuck Grassley - R - Iowa
Joni Ernst - R - Iowa
Mitch McConnell - R - Kentucky
Rand Paul - R - Kentucky
Bill Cassidy - R - Louisiana
Susan Collins - R - Maine
Angus King - I - Maine
Chris Van Hollen - D - Maryland
Angela Alsobrooks - D - Maryland
Elizabeth Warren - D - Massachusetts
Ed Markey - D - Massachusetts
Gary Peters - D - Michigan
Elissa Slotkin - D - Michigan
Amy Klobuchar - D - Minnesota
Tina Smith - D - Minnesota
Roger Wicker - R - Mississippi
Deb Fischer - R - Nebraska
Jacky Rosen - D - Nevada
Catherine Cortez Masto - D - Nevada
Jeanne Shaheen - D - New Hampshire
Maggie Hassan - D - New Hampshire
Cory Booker - D - New Jersey
Andy Kim - D - New Jersey
Martin Heinrich - D - New Mexico
Ben Ray Lujan - D - New Mexico
Chuck Schumer - D - New York
Kirsten Gillibrand - D - New York
Thom Tillis - R - North Carolina
James Lankford - R - Oklahoma
Ron Wyden - D - Oregon
Jeff Merkley - D - Oregon
Dave McCormick - R - Pennsylvania
Jack Reed - D - Rhode Island
Sheldon Whitehouse - D - Rhode Island
John Thune - R - South Dakota
John Cornyn - R - Texas
Bernie Sanders - I - Vermont
Peter Welch - D - Vermont
Mark Warner - D - Virginia
Tim Kaine - D - Virginia
Patty Murray - D - Washington
Maria Cantwell - D - Washington
Jim Justice - R - West Virginia
Tammy Baldwin - D - Wisconsin
The 2024 Venezuelan presidential election, in which Nicolás Maduro claimed victory, was marked by extensive irregularities and widely condemned as fraudulent by international observers, opposition groups, and foreign governments. The government-controlled National Electoral Council (CNE) declared Maduro the winner with 51.95% of the vote against opposition candidate Edmundo González, who received 43.18%.
However, this result starkly contrasted with parallel vote tabulations and independent analyses.
The opposition, anticipating fraud, organized a network of over 58,000 volunteers who collected and digitized official tally sheets (actas de escrutinio) from approximately 80–85% of polling stations.
These tallies showed González winning by a landslide, with around 67% of the vote compared to Maduro’s 30%.
Independent analyses by the Associated Press, The Washington Post, and The New York Times corroborated these findings, concluding the official results were statistically improbable.
Associated Press, The Washington Post, and The New York Times
Smartmatic is a privately owned company.
The majority of its shares (around 83 %) are held by the families of its founders — particularly the Mugica and Piñate families, who started the company. The rest is owned by employees and outside investors.
Founders:
Antonio Mugica – co-founder and long-time CEO.
Alfredo José Anzola – co-founder.
Roger Piñate – co-founder, involved in leadership.





It's never complete without the war porn, faked or otherwise. It's all part of the fog of bullshit.



Cartel de los Soles” translates literally to:
“Cartel of the Suns.”
Why “Suns”?
In Venezuela, “los soles” (the suns) refer to the sun insignia worn by high-ranking military officers, especially generals.
The name implies a drug trafficking cartel involving senior Venezuelan military officials.
So while the literal translation is Cartel of the Suns, the meaning is closer to:
A cartel associated with (or run by) high-ranking military officers.


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Venezuela has greater oil stores than any other country. But after years of corruption, mismanagement and more recently U.S. sanctions, its oil output has dropped to a tenth of what it was two decades ago.
From Lake Maracaibo in the west to the Orinoco oil belt in the east, abandoned wells rust in the sun as looters scavenge the metal. The last drilling rig still working in Venezuela shut down in August. The country is on course, by the end of this year, to be pumping little more oil than the state of Wyoming.
“Twenty percent of the world’s oil is in Venezuela, but what good is it if we can’t monetize it?” said Carlos Mendoza, an ambassador under the late socialist president Hugo Chávez, who enjoyed an oil bonanza when prices were high but starved the industry of investment and maintenance funds.
“We’re entering a post-oil era,” Mr. Mendoza said.
While petroleum is under stress world-wide from climate-change concerns and the rise of wind and solar power, what is happening to oil in Venezuela goes far beyond the global industry’s troubles. It is an existential crisis for a country long dependent on oil for nearly all of its hard-currency earnings.
This year, Venezuela’s oil income will probably fall below the limited funds coming in from other sources such as gold mining and overseas workers’ remittances, said Luis Vicente León, an economist and pollster. Venezuela’s economy is likely to shrink more than 30% this year from the oil collapse plus the pandemic, says Ecoanalitica, a Caracas business consulting firm.