Evidence of Nicolás Maduro’s relationship with a senior leader of the Cartel de los Soles

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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, having designated the Cartel de los Soles as a terrorist organization, noted the investment relationship between the Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean (CAF), and the relationship between President Bernardo Arévalo and Nicolás Maduro.

Including evidence of Maduro’s relationship with a senior leader of the Cartel de los Soles.

President Bernardo Arévalo wants to move $40 million dollars from the Guatemalan Bank’s reserves. This is a favor to Nicolás Maduro.

READ: Former Venezuelan spy chief tells Trump the Cártel de los Soles exists and Maduro holds influence in it

Monetary reserves: They see possible unconstitutionality in the 2026 Budget

By Carlos Álvarez

Authorities at the Bank of Guatemala (Banguat) will determine what actions to take in response to possible unconstitutionalities in the Congressional approval.

The Bank of Guatemala (Banguat) warned that Article 85 of Decree 27-2025, the 2026 Budget Law, approved by Congress and related to the country’s financial participation in the Andean Development Corporation or Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean (CAF), could present flaws of unconstitutionality.

The Bank of Guatemala (Banguat) reported that the Monetary Board (JM) discussed the issue at its session on December 3 and concluded that the content of the article contravenes the current legal framework.

According to the entity, “the aforementioned article could have unconstitutional flaws because it contravenes article 133 of the Political Constitution of the Republic and the provisions of article 71 of the Organic Law of the Bank of Guatemala.”

Both articles expressly prohibit the central bank from granting credit to the Government, which, in the opinion of the members of the JM, could be violated by the way in which the financing for Guatemala’s participation in the CAF is proposed.

In response to this situation, “the technical bodies of the Bank of Guatemala (Banguat) and the Ministry of Public Finance (Minfin), in a coordinated manner, will be presenting to the Monetary Board (JM) a roadmap to determine the actions to be taken in light of the validity of article 85,” it was announced.

According to Banguat, “a solution must be sought that protects the country’s institutions,” given that “there is agreement between the Executive and Congress that Guatemala’s participation in the CAF could be beneficial.”

However, he emphasized that “the form provided for in article 85 of the approved budget is not the appropriate one.”

Soy502 consulted with the Ministry of Finance and the Social Communication unit explained that “although the budget project submitted by the Executive proposed payment with budget funds,” the Legislative branch modified the financing method.

He explained that “Congress approved the Banguat exchanging one dollar asset —International Monetary Reserves (RMI)— for another dollar asset —the shares of CAF, a regional development bank—.”

“The Congress of the Republic has the legislative power to authorize the Executive Branch and the Bank of Guatemala to take this action,” the Ministry of Finance pointed out.

He explained that article 85 of the approved 2026 budget empowers the Ministry of Finance to manage the use of RMI for the payment of shares with the Bank of Guatemala, but also mandates that the Monetary Board authorize the transaction, which allows for prior technical and legal opinions that give it viability.

“If the technical and legal opinions of the Bank of Guatemala (Banguat) indicate any unconstitutionality, the Executive Branch may request an opinion from the Constitutional Court on this article,” the ministry stated.

He noted that Banguat has acquired shares in the World Bank (WB), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI).

“It is an accounting matter; when the capital payment is made in cash to an international organization, it would not constitute an expense for Banguat, since a counterpart entry is recorded on the asset side that corresponds to the capital contribution to said international organization,” the Ministry of Finance stated.

He added that “it would have no effect on the level of its external assets, since the payment in dollars would only constitute a change in the composition of the assets recorded in its Balance Sheet.”

“There would be an increase in the Contributions to International Financial Organizations account, where the shares of the World Bank, IDB and CABEI are currently recorded, and a decrease in the Deposits Abroad account,” the ministry pointed out.

What the article says

Article 85 of Decree 27-2025, the General Budget of Income and Expenditures of the State for Fiscal Year 2026, specifies that “the Executive Branch, through the Ministry of Finance, is authorized to manage before the Bank of Guatemala, with prior authorization from the Monetary Board, the use of RMI for the payment corresponding to the ordinary capital type C of the CAF”

There are “2,817 registered shares of series C corresponding to the ordinary capital of CAF and the unit value of the shares is US$ 14,200 (Q 108,630)”.

Congress authorized the Bank of Guatemala (Banguat) to “honor the commitment of this provision” using funds from the International Monetary Rights (IMR).

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Is it time to prepare for civil war? Glenn Beck’s answer might surprise you …

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He is right and we must win and keep the House and Senate in 2026 and the Presidency and Congress in 2028.

We have been in a Civil War declared on us by the left since Barak Hussein Obama declared he would “fundamentally transform” the USA back in 2007-08. His intent was to change our Constitutional Republic into a Socialist/Communist state like they now have in western Europe. Had Clinton succeeded him this would have happened — temporary reprieve by Trump until COVID hoax and then more of same with Biden/Obama 3. Had Harris been elected we would have been there but thank God Trump beat the rig.

So far the war has largely been one of words including TDS where conservative Biblical and Constitutional values and logical, factual ideas are countered with insults, word salads, unreasonable emotion, personal attacks and stupid leftis hills to die on espoused below.

Actually, you could say, the current Civil War really started with LBJ’s “Great Society” leading to a welfare state and all its bad impacts but then Obama really cemented our path to socialism/communism which now infects close to 50% of our population; most of our colleges and universities; all of entertainment industry including pro sports and all of our big cities and red states under the control of Democrats.

Of course, cowardly establishment RINOs have not helped much. Trump’s MAGA/MAHA & America First and grassroots activism are the antidote to this leftist poison. The antidote to establishment RINOs has got to be primarying them out and replacing them with true coservative Republicans who stay true to their word and not to special interests/PACs plying them with campaign donations.

Look at the un-American hills to die on the Democrats have picked:

  • Defund the police and replace them with social workers
  • Force social engineering onto our military e.g. CRT/DEI/Climate Change/LGBTQ , etc. rather than combat readiness and deployability (fortunately Trump and Hegseth are whittling away at these but they still exist)
  • Invasion of our borders by illegal aliens (again Trump and ICE are chipping away at this)
  • Lawfare & Injustice by leftist Judges including injunctions against everything Trump does
  • School Districts/Boards more into indoctrination than education of children
  • Men in women’s sports
  • Mutilation of children declared to have gender dysphoria with sex change procedures
  • Denigration of both Christianity and Judaism replacement with secular humanism/atheism
  • Decline of Biblical morals and values
  • Continued emphasis on US as a systemic racist country and use of “revisionist history” to try to destroy American Exceptionalism with lies about “white supremacy”. “white privilege” “racism” etc.
  • Abortion on Demand
  • Criminals like narco terrorists should be protected not stopped or killed as necessary and so forth.

What did I miss?

Is it time to prepare for civil war? Glenn Beck’s answer might surprise you …

‘The likelihood of going into a civil war is higher than any other time in my lifetime.’

As the gap between the right and left continues to widen, whispers that we’re on the verge of civil war are rumbling across the nation. Some people are even wondering if they should start preparing.

Is this wisdom or folly?

Glenn Beck’s answer: Both.

“We must win the midterms, and we must win 2028,” Glenn emphasizes.

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AFSOUTH Releases Photos of B-52 “Bomber Barons” Mission Near Venezuela

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U.S. Air Forces Southern (AFSOUTH) has released a series of high-resolution images confirming a major strategic bomber mission conducted yesterday along the northern coast of South America. The photos showcase a pair of B-52H “Stratofortress” long-range bombers assigned to the 23rd Bomb Squadron—the famed “Bomber Barons”—of the 5th Bomb Wing, operating out of Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota.

The mission, designated as a key component of “Operation Southern Spear,” saw the nuclear-capable heavy bombers tracing a flight path near the airspaces of Venezuela, Guyana, and Suriname. This rare deployment of strategic assets to the region serves as a potent reminder of U.S. global strike reach amidst heightened tensions with the Maduro regime.

In the released imagery, the B-52s are seen engaging in mid-air refueling operations with KC-135 “Stratotankers” launched from MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, extending their loiter time over the Caribbean. Most notably, the bombers were escorted by a formation of F/A-18E/F Super Hornets. These fighters are deployed aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), the world’s largest aircraft carrier, which is currently patrolling the region as the flagship of the U.S. naval task force.

“The presence of the 23rd Bomb Squadron in the Southern Command area of responsibility demonstrates our ability to rapidly project decisive airpower to any corner of the globe,” an AFSOUTH spokesperson stated. “Integration with the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group further validates our joint force interoperability in complex maritime environments.”

The flight profile near Guyana and Suriname is also significant, signaling U.S. support for these nations as border disputes in the region continue to simmer. However, the primary strategic signal is undoubtedly directed at Caracas. By flying heavy bombers capable of carrying vast payloads of precision munitions just off the Venezuelan coast, Washington is underscoring the “military option” that officials have refused to rule out in recent weeks.

The “Bomber Barons,” one of the oldest and most decorated squadrons in the U.S. Air Force, have a history of spearheading such deterrence missions. Their deployment to the Caribbean theater marks a significant escalation in the scope of Operation Southern Spear, moving from naval interdiction to the overt display of strategic air supremacy.

AUTHOR

 Carlos Kfoury

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‘It’s about Keeping the Homeland Secure’: Trump Admin. Defends Lethal Strikes against Narco-Terrorists

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Controversy is swimming around the Department of War, with Democratic lawmakers accusing President Donald Trump’s administration of committing war crimes in its strikes against Venezuelan narco-terrorists, while the president mulls over military action against the Venezuelan regime.

On September 2, the president and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth authorized a lethal drone strike against a narco-terrorist vessel transporting drugs from Venezuela to the U.S. The first drone strike reportedly killed 11 members of the Tren de Aragua (TdA) international criminal gang and foreign terrorist organization (FTO). However, a Washington Post report claimed that two TdA members survived the first strike and clung to the wreckage of their drug-shuttling vessel before Hegseth verbally ordered a second strike to kill the two survivors. That report has lawmakers demanding accountability.

In a series of interviews on Sunday, Senate Democrats circled Hegseth and the War Department like hungry sharks. Senator Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) called for congressional investigations into the matter. “I hope it’s not true, what is being reported. That would be very disturbing,” he said regarding The Washington Post’s report. “If that is true, if what has been reported is accurate, I’ve got serious concerns about anybody in that chain of command stepping over a line that they should never step over. We are not Russia. We’re not Iraq,” he continued. Kelly, a former captain in the U.S. Navy, has found himself in hot water over the past two weeks following the release of a video in which he and a handful of other congressional Democrats called on American military servicemembers to disobey the president. Nevertheless, the senator accused Hegseth of wrongdoing. “I think there needs to be an inspector general investigation. Pete Hegseth, who is totally unqualified to be secretary of Defense, he fired a bunch of the IGs within the department. That makes this more challenging,” he said. “I don’t have a lot of confidence that he’s going to investigate that. That’s why in the Armed Services Committee in the Senate and the House, we’re going to have hearings. We’ll have public hearings. We’ll put people under oath. We need to get to the bottom of this.”

Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) also charged Hegseth and the War Department with potential war crimes and possibly outright murder. “I think it’s very possible there was a war crime committed. Of course, for it to be a war crime, you have to accept the Trump administration’s whole construct here,” he said in a Sunday interview, referring to the Trump administration’s declaration that the U.S. is involved in an armed conflict with narco-terrorists. “I’m saying that it’s either murder from the first strike, if their whole theory is wrong, and I think, you know, the weight of the legal opinion here is that they have concocted this ridiculous legal theory. But even if you accept their theory, then it is a war crime, and so I do believe that the secretary of Defense should be held accountable for giving those kind of orders.”

Likewise, Senator Tim Kaine (D-Va.) echoed the “war crimes” narrative. “If that reporting is true, it’s a clear violation of the [Department of War’s] own laws of war, as well as international laws about the way you treat people who are in that circumstance. And so this rises to the level of a war crime if it’s true,” the Virginia Democrat said Sunday. “It’s time for Congress to rein in a president who is deciding to wage war on his own say so, which is not what the Constitution allows,” he added. Independent Senator Angus King (Maine), who caucuses with the Democrats, called the second strike “a stone-cold war crime” and “also murder.”

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed in a press conference Monday that the second strike did occur, but defended the move as lawful. “President Trump and Secretary Hegseth have made it clear that presidentially-designated narco-terrorist groups are subject to lethal targeting in accordance with the laws of war,” she said. She shared that the strikes were overseen by Admiral Frank M. Bradley, who was acting under Hegseth’s direction. “Admiral Bradley worked well within his authority and the law, directing the engagement to ensure the boat was destroyed and the threat to the United States of America was eliminated.”

Hegseth himself also defended the strikes as lawful, saying that they were “approved by the best military and civilian lawyers, up and down the chain of command.” Referring to The Washington Post report, he wrote in a social media post, “As usual, the fake news is delivering more fabricated, inflammatory, and derogatory reporting to discredit our incredible warriors fighting to protect the homeland. As we’ve said from the beginning, and in every statement, these highly effective strikes are specifically intended to be ‘lethal, kinetic strikes.’” The secretary of War continued, “The declared intent is to stop lethal drugs, destroy narco-boats, and kill the narco-terrorists who are poisoning the American people. Every trafficker we kill is affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization.” He further accused former president Joe Biden and his deputies of taking a “kid gloves approach, allowing millions of people — including dangerous cartels and unvetted Afghans — to flood our communities with drugs and violence. The Trump administration has sealed the border and gone on offense against narco-terrorists. Biden coddled terrorists, we kill them.”

The debate over the strikes against narco-terrorists comes as the president is reportedly considering military action against the Venezuelan government, which he has consistently accused of aiding, abetting, and even directing narco-terrorist actions against the U.S. and neighboring countries. In October, the president authorized the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to begin conducting “covert operations” against the government of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, prompting suspicion that the U.S. would soon begin conducting military strikes against Venezuelan-based narco-terrorists on land as well as at sea. According to the Miami Herald, the president pressured Maduro to resign and flee the country in a phone call that took place in late November. “You can save yourself and those closest to you, but you must leave the country now,” the president reportedly told the dictator. The U.S. would guarantee safe passage for Maduro and his family if he agreed to resign during the call, the Miami Herald reported, but Maduro refused, instead suggesting that he would hand legislative authority over to the opposition party but maintain command of the Venezuelan military.

The president was joined Monday night by Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and top military commanders to discuss potential military action against Venezuela. Rear Admiral (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, a senior fellow and senior director at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation, appeared on “Washington Watch” Monday evening to preview potential actions the U.S. may take. “He’s trying his hardest to convince Maduro, who is not the legitimately-elected leader of Venezuela, to leave peacefully, or people around Maduro to encourage him aggressively to leave peacefully,” Montgomery said of the president’s strategy. He noted that the president recently declared the airspace over Venezuela to be “closed,” which the admiral interpreted as a warning to Maduro. “What the president here did was … signaling. He said, ‘I’m going to shut it down,’ and what he really meant was, ‘I’m going to occupy it with my forces at a time and place of my choosing,’ and I think that was a strong signal he was sending.”

“I think what’s really going to happen is we’re going to conduct airstrikes through that airspace. And when we do that, we will put out a notice to mariners saying, ‘Stay clear’ to everyone out of a certain area that’s much larger than the area we’re operating in, so [not to] give away our exact flight planning,” Montgomery anticipated. “And then we will probably begin to destroy the … the factories [on land], the storage units that are used by the narco-cartels for the production and distribution of cocaine from Venezuela to the United States and Europe,” he added. “I think we’ll conduct strikes against … the production and stowage of cocaine, we’ll also strike their military assets that could impact us, their aircraft and air defense systems, and their airfields.”

Montgomery explained that the president perceives the flow of drugs, chiefly fentanyl and cocaine, into the U.S. as a national security threat. The trafficking of fentanyl, which is fueled predominantly by China, is “a politically and militarily more touchy issue” than the flow of cocaine, which comes largely from Venezuela and Colombia. “President Trump did not run as the candidate who will bring you regime change, but I think what he ran as was the president that will bring you a secure homeland, and to him, a secure homeland means secure borders … but also part of that secure border is that we won’t allow illicit drugs in,” the admiral suggested. “We’ve been shooting ships coming out of Venezuela and coming out of Colombia — a total of 21 now — and destroying them. But that’s like shooting arrows instead of shooting the quiver. The quiver [is] the drug production facilities, and the ones in Venezuela, I imagine, are heavily targeted right now by the United States in preparation for an attack over the next few days.”

“We’re not going to stop cocaine flow the United States by sinking individual ships, small ships. It comes in by way too many paths,” Montgomery observed. The president is “saying, ‘Maduro, you’re a narco-terrorist, you run a narco-terrorist state. The state supports the narcotics cartels in the production and distribution of cocaine. I’m going to remove you and hopefully install the democratically elected leadership, and they will take a more aggressive attitude towards blocking drugs coming to the United States,’” the admiral continued. “But at its core, this is a Homeland Security issue to President Trump. It’s about keeping the homeland secure from drugs.”

AUTHOR

S.A. McCarthy

S.A. McCarthy serves as a news writer at The Washington Stand.

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WATCH: AOC dodges question on taxpayer-funded healthcare for illegal immigrants at town hall

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CNN’s Kaitlan Collins pressed the Dem ‘Squad’ member whether illegal immigrants should receive free healthcare. 

FOX NEWS — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., repeatedly sidestepped a question about whether she believed illegal immigrants should receive taxpayer-funded healthcare during a CNN town hall on Wednesday night.

Ocasio-Cortez, who continues to generate buzz as a possible 2028 presidential contender or a potential primary challenger to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., appeared alongside Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., to address questions about the ongoing government shutdown.

Jill Ireland, identified by CNN as a California Democrat who works in insurance, submitted a pre-taped question: “Do you think taxpayers should be paying for the medical care of immigrants who are in the country illegally?”

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NYC Releases Nearly 7,000 Criminal Illegal Aliens Without Notifying ICE

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New York has released almost 7,000 criminal illegal immigrants back onto the streets since Donald Trump returned to the White House, without notifying the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office. The Department of Homeland Security on Monday revealed to the New York Post that these dangerous offenders were granted bail, parole or simply released back into the community with no warning to the agency.

The individuals released include those convicted of serious crimes. Federal authorities are now demanding New York Attorney General Letitia James guarantee that a further 7,113 who remain in custody will be handed over at the end of their sentences.

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Attention Venezuelan Communist Dictator Maduro — Flee Or Die!

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The Communist dictator of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro was given an opportunity by President Trump last week to leave the country, or stay and die like one of his evil rat drug mules, those cockroaches in speed boats that can’t outrun our hellfire missiles.

This former bus driver stole the election in Venezuela twice, like Biden stole our election from Trump and the American people, using the same electronic voting machines.

Maduro makes decisions based on his juvenile character while hiding like a coward behind his military generals who are also on his cartel payroll.

Much like the Communist ran Democrat party here in our great republic, people like AOC and Bernie Sanders who are constantly trying to disarm law abiding Americans,

Maduro and Chavez successfully disarmed the Venezuelan people giving the Communists full autonomy to control these mostly peaceful freedom loving conservative people.

When the United States has weak leadership and useless incompetent Presidents, for example Obama, Clinton and Biden, people like Maduro, Castro and Nicaragua’s Ortega in our southern hemisphere thrive without fear.

U.S presidents both Republican and Democrat have had plenty of opportunities to remove these Communist canker sores legally, whether following guidance from the Monroe Doctrine or more specifically from the Roosevelt Corollary of 1904.

The Monroe Doctrine provides specific guidance and was successful in blocking European colonization in our hemisphere but in the 21st century it should be enforced to deny Russian, Chinese and Iranian influences from growing in Panama, Peru, and more importantly Venezuela.

The Monroe Doctrine is a blue print for freedom in our southern hemisphere but the policy implemented by the leadership of former Republican President Theodore Roosevelt in office from 1901-1909 has the teeth to actually make it happen.

But this takes leadership and strength from the White House today and thankfully now by the grace of God we have that leader called President Donald Trump.

The Roosevelt Corollary was a 1904 addition to the Monroe Doctrine giving the United States authority to intervene in the affairs of Latin American countries if they were acting irresponsibly, suppressing freedom and in particular regarding their debts to European creditors. Venezuela owes lots of money to Russia.

This policy, announced by President Theodore Roosevelt, asserted that the U.S. government had the right to act as a “police power” in the Western Hemisphere to prevent European intervention in South and Central America.

The primary goal was to prevent European powers from using a country’s financial instability as a pretext to intervene in the Americas. Look at Communist China investing heavily in Venezuela.
By stepping in, the U.S. aimed to keep other nations out. This needs to be updated by Trump to specifically include Communist China and Iran.

President Trump has the authority to intervene militarily or diplomatically if a country in the Americas was unable to fulfill its obligations or threatened its own stability. Which is the case with Venezuela and it should also apply to Nicaragua and Cuba.

The Roosevelt corollary has led to increased U.S. intervention in Latin American and Caribbean affairs for example in Panama in 1989 and Granada in 1983 and now with real leadership in the White House under Trump with Venezuela.

Maduro, the installed bus driver from Caracas running Venezuela into economic obscurity has been given one opportunity to leave the country or face the consequences of incineration like his cartel drug mules in speed boats that are not so fast after all.

Yes, the minority Communist groups in South American countries and members of the Democrat party in the USA would describe the current leadership role of the White House to keep these nations free as “Yankee imperialism”

I say let’s start being imperialistic and implement the Roosevelt Corollary immediately and liberate not only Venezuela but also Nicaragua and Cuba.

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Trump Reportedly Told Venezuelan President He Would Grant Him And His Family Safe Passage If He Resigned Immediately

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The White House reportedly delivered a blunt ultimatum to Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro during a phone call last week.

The message was direct, sources familiar with the exchange told the Miami Herald. Resign now and receive safe passage for yourself and your family, or face escalating military action.

The call quickly stalled over three issues. Maduro requested global amnesty for crimes committed by his regime, which Washington rejected.

The Venezuelan leader also proposed retaining control of the armed forces while allowing free elections, a model one source compared to Nicaragua’s 1991 arrangement under Violeta Chamorro. The administration rejected that offer as well. The final impasse came over timing, with Washington demanding immediate resignation and Caracas refusing.

The U.S. reportedly offered guaranteed safe passage only for Maduro, his wife Cilia Flores, and his son, according to the Miami Herald.

The call reportedly also included discussion of a potential in-person meeting between Trump and Maduro in the United States, though no plans currently exist, according to The New York Times. Maduro had previously offered Washington a significant stake in Venezuelan oil fields to defuse tensions, but U.S. officials cut off those discussions early last month.

Brazil, Qatar and Turkey initially brokered the call. After Trump declared Venezuelan airspace “closed in its entirety” on Saturday, Maduro’s government attempted to reach Washington again but received no response.

The administration designated Maduro and his top officials as leaders of the Cartel de los Soles, a Foreign Terrorist Organization, earlier this week. The U.S. has placed a $50 million bounty on Maduro, the largest ever offered for a sitting head of state.

AUTHOR

Mark Tanos

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Trump Says Venezuelan Airspace Closed Off

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President Donald Trump warned airlines and pilots Saturday to stay away from Venezuelan skies.

“To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY,” Trump posted on Truth Social.

The declaration follows weeks of military buildup in Latin American waters. The USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, now patrols the region alongside F-35 fighter jets, spy aircraft and warships.

Since September, the Department of Defense has struck vessels suspected of carrying narcotics toward U.S. shores under “Operation Southern Spear.” Those strikes have killed more than 80 people.

Trump told troops Thursday that ground operations will follow.

“You probably noticed that people aren’t wanting to be delivering by sea, and we’ll be starting to stop them by land also,” he said. “The land is easier, but that’s going to start very soon. We warn them: Stop sending poison to our country.”

The administration accuses Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro of running the Cartel de los Soles. U.S. officials recently labeled the organization a foreign terrorist group and called Maduro an “illegitimate leader.”

The FAA has urged pilots to “exercise caution” near Venezuelan airspace, citing a “worsening security situation and heightened military activity.”

AUTHOR

Mark Tanos

Contributor

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Trump Vows to End Third World Migration After Fatal National Guard Shooting

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DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—President Donald Trump announced late Thursday his administration will “permanently pause” migration from all “Third World Countries,” after two National Guardsmen were shot near the White House by an Afghan national, killing one of them.

West Virginia Army National Guard Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, died Thursday from wounds sustained in Wednesday’s attack. She and Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe were shot in the brutal attack allegedly carried out by Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan national who entered the country in September 2021 after the American withdrawal from Afghanistan. Wolfe remains in critical condition.

“I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover, terminate all of the millions of Biden illegal admissions, including those signed by Sleepy Joe Biden’s Autopen, and remove anyone who is not a net asset to the United States, or is incapable of loving our Country,” Trump wrote in a late Thursday Truth Social post.

Trump added that he would end all federal benefits and subsidies to noncitizens who “undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.”

Lakanwal — who had worked with the U.S. government, including the CIA — arrived in the U.S. in 2021 as part of the Biden administration’s “Operation Allies Welcome,” which resettled Afghans who had assisted American forces. He applied for asylum in 2024, and the Trump administration granted it in April 2025, according to Reuters.

The suspect shouted “Allahu akbar!” before opening fire with a revolver, independent journalist Julio Rojas reported.

As of December 2024, over 180,000 Afghans had been resettled in the country since the U.S. military withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021, according to the State Department.

“Hundreds of thousands of people poured into our Country totally unvetted and unchecked,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “We will fix it, but will never forget what Crooked Joe Biden and his Thugs did to our Country!”

Following the shooting, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that the “processing of all immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals” would be paused “indefinitely.”

USCIS also said Thursday it would conduct a full-scale reexamination of all green cards issued to people from 19 countries “of concern” at the president’s direction. The agency added in a subsequent statement that when vetting migrants from those countries, it will consider “negative, country specific factors,” including whether the country is able to “issue secure identity documents.”

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Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich) Admits Trump Has Not Issued Illegal Orders to U.S. Military

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Following is excellent, insightful comments from Marine friends about the stupid 6 calling for military to disobey orders from the Commander-in-Chief or Secretary of War. In fact, they can’t name a single order given by POTUS Trump or Secretary Hegseth that is illegal or unlawful. I am in total agreement with all comments below — this nonsensical video is a 100% political ploy and another example of TDS by these six “useful idiots” with little understanding of the UCMJ and what would be considered an unlawful or illegal order.

Sen Mark Kelly, a retired Navy Captain is one of the worst at misinterpreting the Constitution and what is considered lawful for our military to carry out.

Recommend calling Sens Kelly (D-AZ) and Slotkin (D-MI) and Reps. Crow (D-CO), Goodlander (D-NH), Deluzio (D-PA) and Houlahan (D-PA) and telling them such idiocy and lies hurt our military readiness. Ask them to name a single order issued by the Commander-in-Chief and/or Secy of War that is illegal, unlawful, and/or unconstitutional. They won’t be able to do so.

Great points and insight by (name withdrawn) – his vignette on ROE is compelling

These “prior service” Dems better start watching what they say – getting to clever by half on what they’re calling “illegal”…just as LTC Brown observed. It will become real when one or all called to testify at a court martial of one of their “adherents”.

As Fred Thompson’s character said in the movie “Hunt for Red October”: “”This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it. “

Silly ass game these partisan hacks are playing that’s now getting out of control…

Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), an unlawful order is a directive that violates the Constitution, federal law, or military regulations, or directs a service member to commit a crime or unethical act.

The Geneva Convention is intended to protect non-combatants or those unable to fight (civilians, medics, clergy, POWs, AID workers etc.)…oh yeah, I forgot — combatants vs. non combatants — is that civilian acting as a hostile?; is that POW compliant? Is that AID worker turned into a threat? Seems I recall Peacekeepers being killed somewhere along the way. Not so black and white an issue.

Certainly wanton murder, rape, torture (however interpreted), killing of non-combatants etc. are unlawful acts and should orders be given to commit such, then it certainly is both the right and responsibility of the serviceman to question/disobey such orders. And then standby for any fallout, particularly if it is later determined that the order was lawful.

And then we get into the mucky waters of policy, international law and the constitution itself. I can only “assume” that these six wackos are speaking to senior force commanders….

99% or more of servicemembers who have zero knowledge of what constitutes an illegal order in the context of policy, international law or the constitution itself, would now be left to interpret their perceptions or understanding of the legal language.

So, thanks for the great guidance and “we got your back” assurances. I think I will obey the orders of the officers appointed over me and until I am “certain” that a crime is what is being asked of me, chances are I will be the Marine, Soldier, Sailor, Airman, Coast Guardsman, Space Cadet that I am “trained to be”

This is political rhetoric, and wreckless rhetoric at that.

Six Democrat Congresspersons released an outrageous video aimed at US military telling them to disobey any orders they consider unlawful. To me this is border line sedition.

Article 92 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice states that it is a military crime to disobey orders eg. Article 92 of the UCMJ pertains to the failure to obey orders or regulations. It states that any person subject to the UCMJ who violates or fails to obey any lawful general order or regulation, or who has knowledge of any lawful order issued by a member of the armed forces and fails to obey it, can be charged under this article. Violations can lead to disciplinary actions, including courts-martial.

The video urging military to disobey orders they consider illegal features Sens. Elissa Slotkin (Mich.) and Mark Kelly (Ariz.), and Reps. Jason Crow (Colo.), Chissy Houlahan (Pa.), Chris Deluzio

“The one-minute video, posted by Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., and viewed more than 1.6 million times, features these six lawmakers invoking their prior service while telling members of the military and intelligence community that “the threats to our Constitution are coming from right here at home.”

Apparently the lawful use of National Guard to insure safety of federal facilities in some lawless Democrat controlled cities and taking out/justifiable killing of narcoterrorists in boats carrying drugs including deadly fentaynl is the trigger for this outrageous video.

Although it is true that a member of our military does not have to obey unlawful orders, determining that an order is unlawful can not be taken lightly and should not be based on political preferences or opinions. Before disobeying an order a serviceperson has options such as using the open door policy to pursue their concern through the chain of command and/or going to the nearest Inspector General or Judge Advocate General for help/determination of appropriate action before disobeying an order. Of course none of these options are mentioned in this outrageous video.

Semper Fi

Call the Congressional Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 — ask operator to connect you to their office. Leave message with Staffer or answering machine if a Staffer doesn’t answer!

Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin Admits That Trump Has Not Issued Illegal Orders to U.S. Military

Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) admitted on Sunday that to her knowledge she was “not aware” that President Donald Trump has issued an illegal order to U.S. Military service members.

During an interview on ABC’s This Week, host Martha Raddatz referenced the White House’s response to a video in which Democrats, such as Slotkin, encourage U.S. military troops to disobey orders. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt previously accused Democrats of suggesting that Trump “has given illegal orders, which he has not.”

When asked if Leavitt’s answer was “accurate,” Slotkin explained that Democrats put the statement out because they allegedly had a “sheer number” of troops and young officers question what they “should do.”

“Let’s talk right now. Do you believe President Trump has issued any illegal orders?” Raddatz asked.

“To my knowledge, I am not aware of things that are illegal — but certainly there are some legal gymnastics that are going on with these Caribbean strikes, and everything related to Venezuela,” Slotkin answered.

In a previous post on Truth Social, Trump suggested that the Democrat lawmakers who encouraged U.S. troops to disobey his orders should be jailed.

“THE TRAITORS THAT TOLD THE MILITARY TO DISOBEY MY ORDERS SHOULD BE IN JAIL RIGHT NOW, NOT ROAMING THE FAKE NEWS NETWORKS TRYING TO EXPLAIN THAT WHAT THEY SAID WAS OKAY,” Trump wrote in his post on Saturday. “IT WASN’T, AND NEVER WILL BE! IT WAS SEDITION AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL, AND SEDITION IS A MAJOR CRIME. THERE CAN BE NO OTHER INTERPRETATION OF WHAT THEY SAID!”

Trump’s comments came after Slotkin, Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-PA), Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA), and other Democrats released a video on Tuesday in which they claim the Trump administration is “pitting” uniformed military service members and “intelligence community professionals” against U.S. citizens.

“Right now, the threats to our Constitution aren’t just coming from abroad, but from right here at home,” the lawmakers say in the video.

“Our laws are clear, you can refuse illegal orders,” Kelly says in the video.

“You can refuse illegal orders,” Slotkin says in the video.

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The 2020 U.S. Stolen Election: Lara Logan and 2 CIA Principles Discuss Chavez, Castro, and Operations within America

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Thanks to Gates of Vienna

A couple of Caveats on this.

The 2020 election saw 12 million voters appear, and then disappear.

We think that the election was most certainly stolen, using all metrics normally applied to any process. But up until now, all efforts to show that the election was stolen using the voting machines appear to have been ops to distract from the actual method by which the election actually was stolen. Likely fake ballots, ballot harvesting, stuffing the machines with faked ballots and all kinds of methods that added up to 12 million non existent voters.

Trump won 2020 with the most votes of any president in history, and somehow Biden got many millions more. Not likely. Then there are the bellwether districts and so on and so on.

So treat this video with cautious and healthy skepticism. It may be true in the final analysis that some software was to blame, or the functioning of some of the machines in some manner. But our information up to now, and much of it published on this site indicates that every effort to determine that it was the machines, including Mike Lindell’s effort in a public conference to expose the code, was a total fail.

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U.S. Forces on Full Alert off the Coast of Venezuela

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The deployment comes amid rapidly escalating tensions and Washington’s signals that it may take more assertive steps in the region.

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PODCAST: Democrat Appointed Federal Judge Orders Release of 615 Criminal Illegal Aliens!

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The Trump administration is breathing fire over a federal judge’s ruling that more than 600 illegal aliens arrested in its Chicago crackdown should be released within a week. District Judge Jeffery Cummings, appointed in 2023 by then-President Joe Biden, ruled Wednesday that the arrests violated a Biden administration consent decree that limits the detentions of illegal aliens who are arrested without a warrant.

And Department of Homeland Security officials are furious. Tricia McLauglin, a DHS spokeswoman, said in a statement that Cummings is “putting American lives at risk,” according to Fox News. “At every turn, activist judges, sanctuary politicians and violent rioters have actively tried to prevent our law enforcement officers from arresting and removing the worst of the worst,” the statement said, according to Fox.

According to CNN, to impose mandatory detention on illegal aliens arrested without a warrant, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents “must meet conditions like establishing probable cause that someone is in the country illegally, assessing their community ties and whether they could be a flight risk.” For hundreds of those swept up in Operation Midway Blitz, a broad illegal immigration crackdown in Chicago, continued detention violates that decree, Cummings ruled.

(One of the cases affected by Cummings’ decision is Diana Patricia Santillana Galeano, the Colombian national and day care worker who became a cause célèbre among some on the left after her arrest at a pre-school on Nov. 5 after fleeing a DHS traffic stop.) Cumming’s ruling, according to Fox, also attacked detention conditions for those arrested. Cummings wrote that many held at the Broadview ICE Detention Center, in the Chicago suburb of Broadview, were subjected to “unsafe and unsanitary conditions” including “overflowing toilets,” according to Fox.

However, Cummings’ order did give DHS officials time to identify detainees whose release could pose a threat to public safety, according to WBEZ. His order mandates the release date as Nov. 21. It wasn’t clear Friday whether the Trump administration would appeal Cummings’ ruling. But it was clear that the ruling didn’t make the controversy go away.

Bovino himself has been the target of a bounty offered by a leader of the Latin Kings criminal gangs. “I think what’s important here to realize is that Border Patrol agents, ICE agents, and allied law enforcement teams, risked their lives to apprehend those 650 illegal aliens that that judge wants to release on the streets,” Bovino said (apparently meaning to say “615” instead of “650”). “Those illegal aliens came from a myriad of situations, whether they were criminals or individuals that were taking jobs from Americans, you name it, that’s what they were doing. “And I’ll tell you what’s going to happen is, we’re going to go even harder on the streets. If he releases those 650, we’re going to apprehend 1,650 on the streets of Chicago.”

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Democrat Senate Staffer Caught On Video Posing As Lawyer For Four-Time Deported Illegal, DHS Alleges

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) accused a Senate staffer in Democratic Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth’s office of impersonating an attorney in an effort to spring a repeatedly deported illegal immigrant from federal custody.

DHS officials say the aide inserted himself into an active immigration case involving Jose Ismeal Ayuzo Sandoval, a 40-year-old Mexican national who has been removed from the United States four times and has a prior DUI conviction, according to a letter that Fox News obtained Wednesday. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Todd Lyons detailed the incident in a letter to Duckworth, saying that the staffer’s behavior crossed a line that endangered officers and undermined federal procedures.

“At approximately 1:29 p.m., an individual identified as Edward York, who according to publicly available information, is employed as a Constituent Outreach Coordinator for your Senate office, entered the field office lobby, and in a discussion with a federal officer, claimed to be Mr. Ayuzo’s attorney. Mr. York demanded to speak with his ‘client,’” the letter states.

Lyons told Duckworth that the staffer used that false claim to gain access to the detainee and push for his release.

“This staff member allegedly did so to gain access to the detainee and seek his release from custody, and he accomplished it by falsifying an official Department of Homeland Security form,” the letter says. (RELATED: ‘This Is Bullsh*t’: Chris Cuomo Scolds Brian Krassenstein For Saying Americans Should Get Guns To Use Against ICE)

Once inside the building, York persuaded Ayuzo to sign a G-28 form, the official document that authorizes an attorney to act on a client’s behalf in immigration matters. The form allows the representative to receive federal notices, file documents and communicate directly with government agencies. DHS released video footage of the incident, allegedly showing York entering the facility and interacting with officers before approaching the detainee.

Despite obtaining a legitimate signature during the meeting, York later attempted to turn in a version of the G-28 that lacked Sandoval’s signature, according to Lyons.

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“Four days later, a Suarez Law Office in Collinsville, Illinois filed a G-28 electronically that did not have Mr. Ayuzo’s signature, even though Mr. York, who claimed to work for the law firm, had already obtained a signed form,” the letter added.

ICE could not confirm that York is an attorney. The agency’s concerns deepened when they discovered a Facebook post from the Montgomery County Illinois Democrats’ page boasting about a staffer who had gone to an ICE field office with documents and a release order and appeared to celebrate misleading federal officers.

Lyons’ letter demands answers from Duckworth’s office by Nov. 17 — including whether York lied intentionally, whether other staff members were aware of his actions, and whether he misused his government position during the incident. The acting director issued a pointed warning to Senate offices engaging in political stunts that interfere with federal enforcement.

“I implore all members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, as well as their staff, to stop the political games that put law enforcement and detainees at risk,” Lyons wrote, Fox News reported. “It is my sincere hope that you will advocate on behalf of your constituents who have been victimized by illegal alien crime and work with DHS to remove these criminals from the United States.

Attacks on ICE agents surged 1,000% year-over-year, the DHS said in an August release. In Chicago, multiple individuals rammed ICE vehicles with their cars during enforcement operations, and Chicago police allegedly stood down instead of assisting agents who were under assault during an Oct. 4 incident.

In July, a suspect opened fire on ICE agents with a pistol during a raid on a California marijuana farm after agents secured a warrant. DHS also said in a Sept. 26 post on X that attackers had targeted an ICE facility in Broadview, Ill, multiple times, and other facilities across the country have faced similar violence.

Duckworth’s office and ICE did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

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