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When Chávez died of cancer in March 2013, Maduro was named his successor and won a snap presidential election in April 2013 by a narrow margin.
He was re-elected in 2018 and 2024, though both elections were widely disputed as fraudulent by opposition groups and
international observers.
Maduro remained in power until his capture by U.S. forces on January 3, 2026, following a military operation.
Regarding involvement in drug trafficking, Maduro has faced serious allegations but denies them. In March 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice indicted Maduro and 14 other Venezuelan officials on charges of narco-terrorism, drug trafficking, and corruption.
The U.S. accused him of leading the "Cartel of the Suns," a drug-trafficking organization involving high-ranking Venezuelan officials, and conspiring with the FARC guerrilla group to flood the U.S. with cocaine, allegedly shipping hundreds of tons since the 1990s.
A $15 million bounty was placed on Maduro in 2020, increased to $50 million in 2025.





Without declaration he can’t invade.
Where are the Multipolar BRICS nations military coming to defend the People's Republic of Venezuela against the Yanqui Imperialist International Law Violating Adventurist Running Dog Capitalist etc. etc.
The Panda and the Bear flounced back and the EU White Bull is only watching and taking notes from the other side of the pond.
(The EU doesn't have a totem animal but I figure Zeus dragging off Europa in the form of a White Bull would be fitting)

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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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.