US Seizes Cargo Plane Iran Illegally Sold To Venezuela
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IranIntl. ^
| 12 Feb 2024
The US government has seized a Boeing 747 cargo plane, previously owned by an airline linked to Iran’s IRGC, which was grounded in Argentina in June 2022 on suspicion of illegal activities. The
Justice Department said Monday that the US-built plane had been brought to Florida and would be disposed of. "The Justice Department is committed to ensuring that the full force of U.S. laws deny hostile state actors the means to engage in malign activities that threaten our national security," Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen, the head of the department's national security division, said in a statement. Argentina grounded...
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Another War May Be About to Break Out in America's Backyard: Venezuela is sending troops to its border with neighboring Guyana
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Red State ^
| 02/09/2024 | Ben Kew
Venezuela is sending troops to its border with neighboring Guyana as tensions continue to escalate over a territorial dispute, raising the risk of a military conflict between the two South American nations. According
to a report from The Wall Street Journal citing satellite images and videos made public by the country's military, Venezuelan forces have stationed troops, tanks, missile-equipped patrol boats, and an armored carrier at its border with Guyana. The dispute comes as Venezuela attempts to annex the region of Essequibo, where the country's socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro has said he plans to “grant operating licenses for the exploration...
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‘Armed and dangerous’ teen migrant from Venezuela arrested over chaotic Times Square shooting that injured tourist: sources
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NY Post ^
| 02/09/2024 | Joe Marino and Olivia Land
Authorities on Friday nabbed a 15-year-old migrant suspected of shooting a tourist and firing at cops in Times Square, law enforcement sources said. The
US Marshals Fugitive Recovery Task Force took the Venezuelan teen into custody in Yonkers at around 3:30 p.m., according to the sources. It came just moments after NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell identified Jesus Alejandro Rivas-Figueroa as the “armed and dangerous” person of interest in connection with the chaotic incident at the Crossroads of the World Thursday night.
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‘Armed and dangerous’ teen migrant from Venezuela ID’d as suspect in chaotic Times Square shooting that injured tourist
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NY Post ^
A 15-year-old from Venezuela who arrived in New York City less than six months ago is wanted and considered “armed and dangerous” over a shooting at a Times Square sporting goods store that left a tourist injured, NYPD officials said Friday.Jesus Alejandro Rivas-Figueroa is being sought as a person of interest in
connection to the chaotic Thursday night incident, Chief of Patrol John Chell told reporters.
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WSJ: Venezuela massing troops to border with Guyana
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Report AZ ^
| 02/09/24 | News Department
This was a hot topic on FR a few weeks ago but had died down, it appears the Biden Administration could be facing another bad situation in South America, if a war breaks out in South America the flood of illegals at the Southern border could escalate to even higher levels
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Socialists Stone and Beat Opposition with Sticks in Venezuela After Biden Sanctions Relief
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Breitbart ^
| 02/08/2024 | FRANCES MARTEL
Venezuelan opposition leader and banned frontrunner in the yet-to-be-scheduled presidential election against dictator Nicolás Maduro, María Corina Machado, announced that a mob of socialists attacked her campaign event on Wednesday, beating her supporters “with sticks and stones.” “More
than 100 regime colectivos attacked with sticks and stones and injured numerous attendees,” Machado wrote in a message on Twitter. “The police present, through their inaction, abetted the armed colectivos.” The term colectivo is used in Venezuela to mean socialist regime-linked armed thugs who have waged campaigns of terror against known dissidents through street beatings, extrajudicial killings, and other violence since the...
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25 years after Venezuela elected Hugo Chavez, five lessons for the U.S.A.
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American Thinker ^
| 02/04/2024 | Monica Showalter
Twenty-five years ago, far-left socialist Hugo Chavez assumed Venezuela's presidency, lawfully elected and sworn in on Feb. 2, 1999, after an up-and-down career as a restive army office involved in a coup d'etat. He
ran and won as an outsider at a time when the establishment had discredited itself, got into trouble when oil prices fell, and signed on to an International Monetary Fund austerity program, such as were being employed at the time in measures that left capitals burning. Once in. it didn't take long for Chavez to turn his once-prosperous country into a socialist hellhole. Today, the country...
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VIDEO: White House Condemns Using Lawfare Against Lead Presidential Candidate... In Venezuela
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Rumble ^
| January 30, 2024 | DUmmie FUnnies
VIDEOLet's hand it to White House spokesman John Kirby. He condemned the use of lawfare in Venezuela to keep the leading opposition presidential candidate off the ballot without once even cracking a hint of a smile. Only
a complete lack of a sense of irony and self awareness would allow Kirby to do that while also demanding the release of political prisoners... in Venezuela.
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Venezuela's Dictator Nicolas Maduro Rigs the Next Election (Is Violence the Only Path Forward?)
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Hotair ^
| 01/26/2024 | John Sexton
The second to worst worst thing that can happen to a civil society is civil war. The
only thing worse than that is what Venezuela is living with right now, a dictatorship in which there is no hope of democratic change or equal justice. In Nicolas Maduro’s Venezuela his voice is the only one that matters. It has been that way since he took over as the hand-picked successor to communist blowhard Hugo Chavez in 2013. Since then, opposition figures have tried everything to get a fair chance at defeating Maduro at the ballot box and at every turn they...
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Why Venezuela wants to annex Guyana
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https :// www . youtube . com / watch ? v = 1YrvGgzBlXo ^
| 1/26/2023 | CaspianReport
South America is teetering on the edge of an armed conflict. #Venezuela
argues that the #Esequibo region of #Guyana was unlawfully taken when the border was established over a century ago.
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Pritzker: Immigration Doesn’t ‘Really’ Impact People, Trump Caused Venezuelan Migrant Surge by Wrecking Venezuela
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Breitbart ^
| 01/16/2024 | IAN HANCHETT
During CBS’s Iowa caucus coverage on Monday, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) stated that the surge in Venezuelan migrants is the fault of 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump because he “created the chaos that’s happened in Venezuela that’s caused so many people to leave that country and seek asylum
in the United States.” And that while immigration will be “an important issue to people,” “what people really care about is their own well-being, their family’s well-being,” and economic issues are “things that really matter to people in their personal lives.” Pritzker said, “Well, I think it’ll be...
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Venezuela murder rate dips, partly due to migration
[Venezuela’s Violent Deaths Fall to 22-Year Low on Migration]
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rueters ^
| 12/27/2023
The Venezuelan Observatory of Violence (OVV) said in its annual report that Venezuela still had the world's highest murder rate, 81.4 per 100,000 inhabitants, but it noted that figure was down from 89 in 2017 and 92 the year before. Director
Roberto Briceño attributed the drop in part to migration. ... Briceño added that some prominent local gangs appeared to no longer be active in Venezuela, while crimes elsewhere in the region have been attributed to those same groups. The total number of homicides fell to 23,047 from 26,616 the in 2017, said the OVV, whose researchers have access to...
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News Summary-Intelligence Report Wednesday 12/20/2023 Newsdump Week Giuliani Hit With Order To Pay 148 Million Now, Police Operation Counters Anti-Milei Protest In Argentina, US-Venezuela Prisoner Exchange, Indian PM Comments On US Sikh Assassination Plot
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Nextrush Free ^
| 12/20/2023 | Nextrush/Self
Former New York Mayor and lawyer for President Donald Trump Rudy Giuliani ordered to "immediately" pay... Voting extended in elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo... A late night barrage of rockets from Lebanon hitting the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona... In Poland the new left-leaning secularist government cleaning house at
state media companies... (News, Comment And Analysis) With just weeks to go before the election in Taiwan a talking point news story about China and Taiwan.... China said to have suspended a currency swap agreement with Argentina... Argentine President Javier Milei announcing by decree the changing of 300...
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Biden Frees Venezuela’s ‘Financial Brain’, Granting Narco-Socialists a Major Win
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Breitbart ^
| 12/20/2023 | CHRISTIAN K. CARUZO
President Joe Biden greenlit the release of Colombian businessman Alex Saab, accused of acting as Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro’s top money launderer, on Wednesday. Saab’s release is allegedly the result of a prisoner swap with the rogue socialist regime that will also allow for the release of unjustly detained Americans in
Venezuela, the Associated Press reported. Saab, 51, is a close personal ally of Maduro and is widely considered the socialist dictator’s financial brain. American law enforcement authorities arrested Saab in Cape Verde in 2020 after the Department of Justice indicted him in 2019 on charges of laundering $350...
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Venezuela President Maduro Slams US for Floating Plan to Back Guyana in Essequibo Dispute
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NEWS18 ^
| 1/12.2023 | Shankhyaneel Sarkar
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Monday that he views US military support of neighboring Guyana as a threat to resolving his nation’s territorial claim there, and will bring it up in talks this week with his counterpart. Maduro
will meet Guyana President Irfaan Ali on Thursday in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. “I hope that in this high-level meeting we can address the main threats to the peace and stability of our countries, among them the involvement of the US Southern Command, which has begun operations in the disputed territory,” Maduro said in a letter published on X, formerly...
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Venezuela’s Border Dispute with Guyana Explained
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gCaptain ^
| December 8, 2023 | Julia Symmes Cobb
Tensions between neighbors Venezuela and Guyana have ratcheted up in recent weeks over a long-running territorial dispute. At
issue is a 160,000-square-km (62,000-square-mile) border territory around the Esequibo river, which is mostly jungle, and an offshore area where massive discoveries of oil and gas have been made.
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Brazil reinforces border with Venezuela and Guyana over Esequibo tensions
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Reuters via MSN ^
| December 5, 2023 | Reuters
Brazil's military is reinforcing its northern border due to rising tensions between its neighbors Venezuela and Guyana over Venezuela's claim to the Esequibo region, the Ministry of Defense said on Tuesday. The Brazilian army is moving armored vehicles and more troops to Boa Vista, the capital of Roraima state that borders both
Venezuela and Guyana after Venezuelans voted in a referendum on Sunday to approve the annexation of the Esequibo.
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Venezuela-Guyana dispute: Maduro mobilizes the army and announces annexation of Essequibo
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El Pais ^
| 12/7/23 | El Pais
A number of us on FreeRepublic have been talking about this situation recently as something to keep your eye on. It
appears Venezuela and Maduro are serious about annexing a large portion of Guyana, the territory is home to huge oil deposits. Haven't seen much if anything in the MSM about this new conflict, which could cause a spike in oil prices and send a huge number of refugees toward our open border.
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Another Conflict In Which The Left Has No Interest: Venezuela/Guyana
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Manhattan Contrarian ^
| 5 Dec, 2023 | Francis Menton
The response by Israel to the October atrocities of Hamas seems to have roused the international Left into a furious frenzy. Widespread
demonstrations supporting the Gazans’ slaughter continue on a daily basis in major cities around the world and, especially, on university campuses. The demonstrations feature thinly- or not-so-thinly-veiled calls for elimination of Israel as a state, and for violence against Jewish people. The demonstrators call the Jews every horrible thing they can think of, the very worst in their vocabulary being “settler colonialists.” Meanwhile, other comparable conflicts go on around the world without even a hint of interest from...
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Brazil mobilizes military amid potential Venezuela-Guyana conflict - Things to keep your eye on.
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Defence Blog ^
| 11/30/23 | Dylan Malyasov
Frank Gaffney was on Steve Bannon's War Room last week talking about this issue. In
the last few years a huge oil discovery was made in Guyana who is allied with the USA, China, Russia, and Iran have become allies of Venezuela, Brazil is now being run by a Socialist in Lula De Silva. Why should anyone care about a potential conflict in South American, the contention of Gaffney and Bannon is China, Russia, and Iran are stoking conflicts around the world, in places like Ukraine, Gaza, Red Sea, potentially in South America to bog down the USA and it's...
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