An Eyewitness Look at Venezuela After the Capture of Maduro

If you want a report from the ground following the extraction of President Maduro by American forces, I’ve got one for you.  Daniela Gonzalez often contributes to our friends at The Organic Prepper.  Daniela recently posted some information she collected from trusted sources inside Venezuela and below is her report.

Although the intention of this site is not to spread political information, there are lots of details involved that we Venezuelans need the world to know. This prologue was written so the reader can understand the magnitude of the forces that generated the whole Cuban operation that took over the country, brutally stomped on the civilian society, and managed (with the collaboration of uniforms) to even harm the US. With this, we mean they are NOT common criminals.

I decided to let the dust settle until the first images of the intervention are published before trying to explain what seems to be happening.

This is information I collected from trusted sources. 

It is not wise for us to use social media at the present moment. The open wounds from a few days ago are still very recent, tempers are boiling! The humiliation is absolute. The ego clouds judgment about the shady, regrettable actions they committed, and this generates aggressive impulses to harm weaker, vulnerable people they label as “their enemies”. 

Both sides (I will explain these sides in the short term) are now struggling, with a very clear loser. The woman who is now working as a de facto VP, Delcy Rodriguez (warlord of the civilian branch of the “Revolution”), was the one who assisted and supported the military extraction, in the hope she would be left “untouched”. However, she´s indeed one of the many heads of the Hydra. She also “extracted” a HUGE amount of stolen gold out of the Central Bank, fleeing to Spain, where she would be in collusion with Zapatero and Pedro Sanchez (Spanish politicians had a very important role in the laundering of the money stolen from Venezuela). The other branch of the gang is now aware they are sitting ducks, and the situation is more volatile than ever.

Most of the information is already all over the internet, but mostly in Spanish. Obviously, they are making a huge effort to conceal the intervention of Cuba in this takeover. 

The serious interest of the Russians in jumping into the equation to defend Cuba all these decades is because a good number of their high ranks are involved with the money laundering they need to keep the narcotics flow. 

Happily, the (very necessary) military intervention exposed the truth.

These are confirmed facts.

Here is the summary of the very long text.

The escort of 32 Cuban military personnel who formed the security ring of the former Venezuelan President—and who were killed in their entirety by Delta Force without causing a single scratch to the American soldiers—had not been sent to Venezuela to protect Maduro, but to prevent him from escaping and talking. They even had orders to kill him before he could attempt to flee or be captured.

Maduro knew it. And that explains his relaxed countenance upon stepping onto American soil: his smile, his thumbs up, his cordial greetings, and his “Happy New Year” wishes to the DEA officials in New York. He looked relieved, almost grateful for having been rescued from a death foretold.

The Cuban apparatus did not want Maduro to get out alive for fear that he would disclose a “secret”: the real drug kingpin is the Cuban self-called “Government”.

Some history

It has always been so since the 1980s, when Fidel Castro made a pact with Pablo Escobar and Carlos Lehder, heads of the Medellín Cartel, to exchange weapons for drugs. Soviet weapons were supplied to the M19 guerrilla group—to which the current president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, belonged—and Castro collected payment in cocaine that arrived in small planes from Colombia to Varadero airport. This was then sold to traffickers in Florida who transported it in speedboats called “cigarette boats” from Cuba to the United States. Castro aimed to achieve three triumphs: to support armed insurgency in Hispanic America, to deposit tens of millions of dollars into his private bank account, and to undermine American society with the ghost of drug addiction. The DEA informed then-President Ronald Reagan about this. These were not conventional criminals, but an aggression by an enemy and hostile State like Cuba, committing a serious crime against the public health of the American population.

• Reagan limited himself to sending a warm, tasteless diplomatic note of protest. To justify himself, Castro blamed four subordinates who had only followed his orders and sent them to be shot by a firing squad in July 1989. That is how he saved his own backside.
• This traffic had interruptions for a time until Hugo Chávez came to power and started to receive the support and advice of the Cuban regime to establish a military dictatorship and resume the drug trafficking business. The rest is recent history already available.
• The Americans’ interest in Venezuela’s oil is not new. But what were the Cubans, the Russians, the Chinese, and the Iranians doing here? Were they the keepers of the secret recipe for Venezuelan arepas? There are many beneficiaries of the shady, opaque, and obscure deals with the Bolivarian regime, not only with oil, but also including gold, coltan, gas, and uranium. Uranium that could be used by enemies of America!
• Venezuela financed left-wing parties and leaders in Europe and Hispanic America, as well as the terrorism of Hamas and Hezbollah.
• Many are starting to get nervous about everything Maduro might testify to. Let no one have any doubt that he is going to “sing” (talk). That is already agreed upon. And his testimony could leave bare several leaders of the left and far-left who will be pointed out as accomplices of a narco-terrorist dictatorship.

Now, the added value, from our prepper perspective.

The good news

• There was no interruption of the internet service, power, water, etc., which was, frankly, remarkable.  Not in the other parts of the country. This was huge. People without information or energy would have hit the streets, only to be targeted by the assassins and gangs called colectivos (armed thugs, the equivalent of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard but worse), and blame it on the US Armed Forces. We were able to see the events as they unfolded, and that was PRICELESS! to keep the population calm.
• I am sure that this is impeding the collectivos from attacking the civilians, to later blame the US Army. They will be filmed, and any event will be instantly broadcast to the world. Very smart move.
• The economy is not so battered as it could be, although there are a LOT of people taking advantage of the uncertainty. Some merchants are working with USD only, and charging 3.5 X the equivalent in local currency. The only ones affected by the uncontrolled inflation are those with a salary in local currency. The independent ones charge in USD. Local production is not too cheap (I could add a list of basic staples in the next post), however, at least we have access as long as we have the $. The exchangers are the ones having a good one. They will exchange Bolivares for dollars in the “grey” market, and for today, the rate is 520 Bs per USD. With the official rate of Bs per USD at 325. This means we have some margin left, and can buy more products from the shops, which have access to get USDs at the official rate to buy products.
• The result of the armed actions is that the perpetrators of the abuse on unarmed civilians, disappearings, illegal kidnappings, 12-gauge shots to the face, and other barbarities…are now faced with a reality after decades of impunity: they will pay. This has resulted in a highly volatile situation these days. They will unlive anybody if someone tries to throw them under the bus. This is the next logical step, for sure. 

We can confirm that the abuse of the roaming gangs on motorcycles is mostly in the major cities. In smaller towns, this is uncommon.

The latest news is that in the barrios, they are surrendering the weapons that Hugo gave them to “defend the Revolution”. Meaning with this that the guns should be used to massacre unarmed civilians if they dared to lead an uprising. 

It is a very interesting survival aspect: when faced with overwhelming (and lethal) violence, predators that are used to abusing their victims will run with their tails between their legs.

People in Venezuela never felt the need to prepare. We suffered horrors. We were humiliated as citizens and subjugated beyond any belief. We struggled to feed our youngsters, provide healthcare to our elders, and meet our basic needs. We never had the intention to fight for gun rights, as they were sheepishly led to believe that the monopoly of guns (and violence) should be “The State”. That is what a short, chubby guy with a 15 million $ reward says…

Thanks for your reading. 

Dani

Article posted with permission from Sons of Liberty Media