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Step 3: Establish a propaganda apparatus within the captured state. theguardian.com/world/2026/feb…
#politics #USPol #Venezuela

Venezuela welcomes Trump-loving US TV channel in ‘marriage of convenience’

Newsmax, granted major access as the first foreign outlet admitted after the US strike, hailed Trump as a ‘liberator’

^{Tom Phillips (The Guardian)}

🇨🇦 Inside the Right-Wing Movement Pushing #Alberta to Secede From #Canada

#Trump officials have repeatedly met with secessionist leaders from the province, which has large oil and gas deposits.
By Nora Loreto,
Published Feb 9, 2026

truthout.org/articles/inside-t…

#elbowsup #toronto #montreal #vancouver #winnipeg #halifax #ontario #quebec #cdnpoli #democracy #sovereignty @politics @democracy @journalismandcomment #media #fossilfuels #fascism #imperialism #venezuela #iran #nigeria #cuba #greenland #oil

Interview: "Trump Seeks Vassal States Across the World"

Following the US abduction of Venezuela's Pres Maduro, the interim pres, Delcy Rodriguéz, "has agreed to submit a monthly budget to the Trump administration, which will release money from an account funded by oil sales."

Rodriguéz is “governing under the blade", says historian Greg Grandin.

Trump plans "to run the country as a vassal state."

democracynow.org/2026/1/30/lat…

#USPol #EUpol #CdnPoli #Press #Venezuela #USImperialism #racism .

“Hostile Takeovers”: As U.S. Claims Venezuela’s Oil, Trump Seeks “Vassal States” Across the World

In the aftermath of the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, Venezuela has agreed to submit a monthly budget to the Trump administration, which will release money from an account funded by oil sales.

^{Democracy Now!}

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The House has narrowly voted against constraining POTUS' ability to deploy troops to Venezuela: theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j…

But that may not particularly matter since his plan apparently involves private security contractors: insideclimatenews.org/news/230…

If the use of contractors in Iraq was anything to go by, that could end up being even worse for Venezuelans.
#politics #USPol #Venezuela #VEPol

House rejects resolution that would bar Trump from sending troops to Venezuela

Vote on legislation falls just short of number needed for passage, showing Mike Johnson’s tenuous hold on majority

^{Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)}

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Delcy and Jorge Rodríguez were in league with the Trump administration before the US military operation that exfiltrated Maduro: theguardian.com/world/2026/jan… Now the siblings preside over two of the country's branches of government.
#politics #Venezuela #VEPol #USPol

Venezuela’s Delcy Rodríguez assured US of cooperation before Maduro’s capture

Exclusive: sources say powerful figures in the regime secretly told US and Qatari officials they would welcome Maduro’s departure

^{Aram Roston (The Guardian)}

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It certainly doesn't speak well of the prospects for real democracy in Venezuela that the likeliest candidates are campaigning directly to the president of another country for the job. english.elpais.com/internation…
#politics #Venezuela #VEPol #USPol #Trump

Delcy Rodríguez and María Corina Machado vie for Trump’s favor

The Republican will receive the leader of the Venezuelan opposition at the White House Thursday after speaking by phone with the interim president

^{Juan Diego Quesada (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)}

#Venezuela has never been a major cocaine producer – Colombia overwhelmingly is.

That makes the arrest of Nicolás Maduro and U.S. efforts to control #Venezuela unlikely to reduce cocaine flows into the U.S., an international relations scholar says. theconversation.com/the-drug-t…

The ‘drug threat’ that justified the US ouster of Maduro won’t be fixed by his arrest

There is no evidence that US intervention in Venezuela will lead to a meaningful reduction in drugs flowing into the United States.

^{The Conversation}