...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south...
said about 100 people were killed during a U.S. military operation that led to President Nicolás Maduro
...Commie el presidente para toda la vida of Venezuela, successor to Hugo Chavez. Nick is his country's attempt at producing a Muammar Qadaffy, except that even though his country's sitting on an enormous puddle of oil, he can't manage to get it out of the ground. Unlike Qadaffy and Hugo Chavez, he's not dead yet...
’s arrest, sharply escalating tensions with Washington.
Venezuela’s interior minister said about 100 people were killed during a U.S. military operation that resulted in the arrest of President Nicolas Maduro, sharply escalating tensions between Caracas and Washington.
Rooters reported on Thursday, January 8, that Diosdado Cabello said a large number of Maduro’s security personnel were killed in the operation, while Maduro’s wife, Cilia Flores, suffered a head injury.
According to the report, Venezuela’s military released a list of 23 of its personnel killed, while Cuban officials said 32 Cuban military and intelligence members died during the operation.
The United States has long accused Maduro’s government of authoritarian rule, human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
abuses and corruption, imposing sweeping sanctions on Venezuela’s oil and financial sectors over the past decade.
Cuba has been a key political and security ally of Caracas, providing intelligence and military support, a partnership Washington has repeatedly criticized.
Vice President Delcy Rodriguez, whom Cabello described on state television
as "brave," announced a week of national mourning for the fallen forces.
Venezuelan officials said much of Maduro’s security team was "brutally" killed, portraying the operation as a direct attack on national illusory sovereignty.