Mad About Maduro
"We are the news now" was not supposed to mean "we are the ones promoting the mainstream media."
The military will obey the president, no matter who that president is. This is something we in America are indoctrinated to believe. Because we believe it in the United States of America, we believe it applies everywhere, despite being told numerous stories about how the notion is not even true here, not under Trump, not under Biden.
We are often oblivious to the assumptions necessarily implied by many of our views, sadly. When we claim that Venezuela has been liberated, we are committed to the assumption that the military would move automatically to follow whoever is called “president” by global media outlets. We are encouraged to take for granted that Venezuela’s entire force (including the civilian militia) is populated with automatons who would just as soon obey a foreign usurper or a puppet of the same, in the same way they would obey a rightful leader, when it cannot even be assured that the military will obey the rightful leader. Somehow, all of this is taken seriously. I mean, look at this captured villain, pictured here in his second outfit of the day.
The Venezuelan military did not choose to take Maduro out themselves. Their participation in the “daring capture” was non-existent, other than peacefully allowing it to happen while knowing it was coming. We are told Maduro’s military obeyed him because he, the “narcoterrorist,” paid his generals (the literally storied “Cartel de los Soles”) drug money, which the indictment tells us is for trafficking cocaine(!!). That is preposterous. Even the New York Times admits that Venezuela had virtually no role in the global cocaine trade—not fentanyl, cocaine. What’s next, we go after the world’s leading producers of quaaludes? Is this 1990? Even the so-called indictment “charging” Maduro with violating U.S. law is focused primarily on the transnational criminal organization and its proxies in Central America with decades of trafficking—the same transnational criminal organization whose donors, NGOs, transnational energy companies, and global banks to whom the Maduro regime was explicitly and legitimately opposed.
The Venezuelan military could have removed Maduro themselves, backed by the U.S. military, and replaced him with Maria Corina Machado, if they supported her or the country supported her. But neither did, despite her Yale past and her two decades spent as Venezuela’s Alexei Navalny—the Russian opposition leader slash Western intel cutout. The Venezuelan military surely could have deposed Maduro in 2024 when he “lost” a fake election (or 2020, etc…) if they did not actually support him. But the money flowing in from a non-existent drug trade kept them all compliant. Though they had the world’s sympathy as well as the Regime’s projection of Maria Hakuna Matata as the legitimate leader—despite not even running in an election— still, the Venezuelan military did not install the people’s champion and Nobel Prize Winner, knowing they would have the U.S.’s backing, as well as that of “the West,” globalist donors, global Zionism, neocons, tech, and transnational corporations.