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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(132,824 posts)
Sat Jan 3, 2026, 02:16 PM Saturday

Venezuelan opposition leader releases letter after Maduro's capture

María Corina Machado released a letter addressing the Venezuelan people after leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife were captured in a U.S. operation overnight Saturday.

Machado, an opposition leader who has mostly been in hiding over the last year, said Maduro will "face international justice for the atrocious crimes committed against Venezuelans and against citizens of many other nations."

"The time for freedom has come!" Machado, who was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, wrote in the letter posted on X.

It was not clear on Saturday if Machado, who escaped to Norway in a secret mission last month, was in Venezuela. She told CBS News in mid-December that she was "absolutely" supportive of President Trump's increasing military pressure on the Maduro regime and said she would welcome "more and more pressure so that Maduro understands that he has to go."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/venezuelan-opposition-leader-releases-letter-163800290.html

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Venezuelan opposition leader releases letter after Maduro's capture (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Saturday OP
A puppet is born! GreenWave Saturday #1
Another naive idiot politician stepping forward into oblivion. littlemissmartypants Saturday #2

GreenWave

(12,328 posts)
1. A puppet is born!
Sat Jan 3, 2026, 03:55 PM
Saturday

Same person who wants to give her Nobel Peace Prize to Trump. Perhaps she should dip it in the blood of her compatriots who were killed in boats. The "peace" person has not condemned Trump for that.

littlemissmartypants

(31,636 posts)
2. Another naive idiot politician stepping forward into oblivion.
Sat Jan 3, 2026, 04:28 PM
Saturday

Psychopaths should never be trusted.



Characteristics of Psychopaths

1. Aggressive, callous, and cunning
2. Complete absence of conscience and empathy
3. Very adept at manipulating others
4. Willingness to engage in immoral, criminal conduct
5. Willingness to take what they want and do as they please, regardless of who is hurt or wronged
6. Deceptive ability to appear outwardly benevolent
7. Deceptive ability to behave in superficially charming ways to hide purely selfish motives
8. Willingness to use intimidation and violence to control others in order to satisfy their own needs
9. Willingness to intentionally violate the basic inherent human rights of others
10. Complete absence of any sense of guilt or remorse for the harm their actions have caused to others
11. Rationalization of their own immoral behavior
12. Will attempt to lay blame upon someone else for their own conduct
13. Denial, will deny their own wrongdoing outright
14. Utter contemptuousness toward the feelings and desires of their fellow beings
15. Pathological lying, will say anything without any concern for truth to advance their own hidden agendas
16. Ablity to feign [fake] normal human emotions and empathy
17. Distorted sense of the consequences of their actions
18. Total failure to accept any responsibility for their own socially irresponsible ways
19. Strong bellef that they will never be brought to justice for their criminal behavior
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