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(93,401 posts)
Sun Jan 11, 2026, 05:49 PM Sunday

Would-be new dictator of Cuba, Marco's State Dept. warns that Trump-run Venezuela isn't safe for Americans

Selina Wang @selinawangtv
State Dept warns Americans to leave Venezuela immediately, urging them to take precaution because of “reports of groups of armed militias, known as colectivos, setting up roadblocks and searching vehicles for evidence of U.S. citizenship or support for the United States.”

Tensions running high on the streets of Venezuela - government searching for anyone they believe helped execute the capture of Maduro. Reports of paramilitary groups vowing revenge and enforcing curfews in some neighborhoods


x.com/selinawangtv/status/2010421906055311805


'We are going to run the country': Trump says US will govern Venezuela'
"We can't take a chance that somebody else takes over Venezuela that doesn't have the good of the Venezuelan people in mind. We've had decades of that. We're not going to let that happen," the president said. "We're there now. And what people don't understand, but they understand as I say this, we're there now..."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-says-the-us-will-run-venezuela-for-now-what-do-we-know-about-the-plans/ar-AA1Tw5C2

Donald Trump on Marco Rubio as Cuba’s president: "Sounds good to me!"
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/donald-trump-on-marco-rubio-as-cuba-s-president-sounds-good-to-me/ar-AA1U0d0a
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Would-be new dictator of Cuba, Marco's State Dept. warns that Trump-run Venezuela isn't safe for Americans (Original Post) bigtree Sunday OP
Everything Trump touches dies PJMcK Sunday #1
Trump-run USA HappyH Sunday #2
in caps bigtree Sunday #5
Wait whut, when KRASOV takes over a place isn't it supposed to be quiet as a golf course? UTUSN Sunday #3
The Mets have a player in the Venezuela league, WTF. How can they leave him there? dem4decades Sunday #4
Trump-run America isn't safe for Americans. Initech Sunday #6
WELL ISN'T THAT SPECIAL Skittles Sunday #7

bigtree

(93,401 posts)
5. in caps
Sun Jan 11, 2026, 07:15 PM
Sunday
Jeff Tiedrich @itsJeffTiedrich 5h
OUR GOVERNMENT IS WARNING AMERICANS NOT TO GO TO VENEZUELA BECAUSE THEY RISK "WRONGFUL DETENTION, KIDNAPPING, AND ARBITRARY ENFORCEMENT OF LAWS." HOW THE FUCK IS THAT DIFFERENT FROM HOW ICE THUGS ARE GOING APE-SHIT RIGHT HERE?



UTUSN

(77,021 posts)
3. Wait whut, when KRASOV takes over a place isn't it supposed to be quiet as a golf course?
Sun Jan 11, 2026, 05:55 PM
Sunday
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