Paul Singer Set To Capitalize On Regime Change In Venezuela

In the month between Paul Singer’s Venezuela asset deal being approved and Trump’s regime-change operation, the @FreeBeacon — Singer’s personal mouthpiece — published at least five articles portraying Maduro’s regime as a narcoterrorist threat linked to Hezbollah and drug… https://t.co/AU4XSTZnAV

— Chris Brunet (@chrisbrunet) January 6, 2026

There are lots of articles out today about how Paul Singer, owner of @FreeBeacon, is set to profit billions from Venezuela’s collapse.

I think mine is the best. https://t.co/ssurIBdo3o pic.twitter.com/k6cXKfNNYS

— Chris Brunet (@chrisbrunet) January 6, 2026

Just a few days ago, Netanyahu connected Venezuela to Iran to push for another war

He had just left the US when Trump bombed Caracas — is this the world’s wildest coincidence? pic.twitter.com/lUKZKd2U6D

— HatsOff (@HatsOffff) January 3, 2026

John Mearsheimer says President Trump is “pursuing a reckless foreign policy” in Venezuela:

“This demonstrates that the US is a rogue state. This has nothing to do with the Monroe Doctrine. Basically what Trump is doing here is overthrowing a government he doesn’t like.” pic.twitter.com/STcYywipOS

— The American Conservative (@amconmag) January 6, 2026

Rubio calls Venezuela a “foothold of Iran,” saying, “Iran, IRGC, and even Hezbollah [have] a presence in South America. pic.twitter.com/KeF0OjfUCe

— Faytuks Network (@FaytuksNetwork) December 3, 2025

? | En su audiencia de confirmación, Marco Rubio denuncia la presencia de Irán en Venezuela, dice que Irán está desarrollando una fábrica de drones en Venezuela y acusa al régimen chavista de proporcionar pasaportes ilegales a Hezbollah. pic.twitter.com/npVFaAPcRy

— VOZ (@VozMediaUSA) January 15, 2025

Rubio to Venezuela’s new leader:

You cannot turn Venezuela into an operating hub for Iran, for Russia, for Hezbollah, for China, or for Cuban intelligence agents. That cannot continue.

You cannot have the largest oil reserves in the world under the control of adversaries of the… pic.twitter.com/3uMn0v05EP

— Clash Report (@clashreport) January 4, 2026

I think it is interesting that Nick Fuentes is downplaying the Jewish angle of Trump’s regime change in Venezuela which has always been front and center.

• Trump had neocon veterans John Bolton and Elliot Abrams in charge of destabilizing Venezuela, crushing its economy and overthrowing its government in his first term. Toppling Maduro has always been a neocon objective
• Bibi Netanyahu has long supported the overthrow of Maduro because he sees Venezuela as being aligned with Iran and Hezbollah
• Marco Rubio has repeatedly connected the overthrow of Maduro to Iran and Hezbollah
• Lindsey Graham and other MIGA senators and influencers like Mark Levin have repeatedly connected regime change in Venezuela to regime change in Iran
• Paul Singer’s hedge fund Elliot Management acquired CITGO in November
• Paul Singer is Marco Rubio’s patron and one of the most important and powerful Jewish donors in the Republican Jewish Coalition

There is no upside for Americans to regime change in Venezuela.

China only gets a fraction of its oil from Venezuela. The oil infrastructure in Venezuela has been wrecked by decades of neglect and would take years to rebuild. The American oil majors aren’t enthusiastic about returning to Venezuela because the price of oil is so low. The next Democratic president would simply return the oil to Venezuela like when Obama and Biden killed the Keystone pipeline. The price of gas was already low and flooding the market with Venezuelan oil would harm the American oil industry.

WSJ:

“

The ouster of Nicolás Maduro is rewarding investors who spent years betting on a Venezuela comeback.

Investment firms including Fidelity and T. Rowe Price have been stuck holding tens of billions of dollars in underwater Venezuelan bonds that the government and state-owned companies such as Petróleos de Venezuela borrowed years ago. U.S. investors once held about $50 billion of Venezuelan debt, before many sold and wrote off the losses after the first Trump administration isolated Venezuela through sanctions. …”

WSJ:

“For activist hedge fund Elliott Investment Management, Nicolás Maduro’s swift exit comes at an auspicious time.

A U.S. judge in November backed a roughly $6 billion bid by Elliott for Citgo Petroleum, the refining firm owned by Venezuela’s state-run company Petróleos de Venezuela, known as PdVSA, in a forced sale to satisfy creditors. Citgo, based in Houston, owns a U.S. network of refineries, pipelines and terminals that some analysts have said could be worth between $11 billion and $13 billion. …”

Chris Brunet:

“

Coups, collapses, and revolutions are usually framed as moral dramas: heroes and villains, tyrants and liberators, peoples rising against power. What receives less attention is the market for distressed assets that forms in their wake. When states fracture, assets do not vanish. They are liquidated quietly, legally, and at a steep discount. Crisis creates opportunity, and into that vacuum move investors whose entire business model depends on chaos being just orderly enough to exploit.

In the language of global finance, these actors have a name: vultures. …”