🇺🇸🤑❌🇻🇪🇻🇪 — The Wall Street Journal reports that an unknown investor earned $400,000 betting on the fall of Venezuelan President Maduro on the futures platform Polymarket just hours before U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military action.

📝 According to the report, the investor made a 12-fold profit on the investment, raising suspicions that they may have had insider information about the move.

🇨🇳🇷🇺🇮🇷🤝🇻🇪🇻🇪 — The first three people Delcy Rodríguez greeted after being sworn in as interim president of Venezuela were the ambassadors of China, Russia, and Iran.

🇨🇴🇺🇸❌🇨🇴 — NEW: Colombian Interior Minister Armando Benedetti and Acting Justice Minister Andrés Idarraga announced Colombia’s willingness to coordinate with the U.S. in combating criminal organizations and drug cartels.

➡️ The cooperation will focus on economic, technological, and intelligence support to dismantle camps, laboratories, and trafficking networks, with particular emphasis on the Colombian-Venezuelan border and ELN structures.

🇺🇸❌🇻🇪 — US Secretary of War Hegseth about Maduro's capture operation:

Nicolás Maduro got to meet some great Americans wearing night-vision goggles three nights ago.

He didn’t know they were coming until three minutes before they arrived.

In fact, his wife said, “I think I hear aircraft outside.” They didn’t know.

🇺🇸❌🇻🇪🇻🇪 — CNN Jake Tapper unsucessfully tries to lecture White House Advisor Stephen Miller about the "Venezuelan sovereignty", while falsely claiming that Trump Administration ditched Maria Corina Machado:

Tapper:

"We went into the country and we seized the leader of Venezuela..."

Stephen Miller then replies:

"Damn straight we did! ... We're not going to let tinpot communist dictators send rapists into our country, send drugs into our country, send weapons into our country!"

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🇦🇷🇺🇳🇺🇸💬❌🇻🇪 — Speech by Argentine Diplomat Francisco Tropepi at the United Nations Security Council Meeting

The Government of the Argentine Republic values ​​the resolve and determination shown by the President of the United States and his administration in the recent actions taken in Venezuela that led to the capture of dictator Nicolás Maduro, leader of the Cartel of the Suns, declared a terrorist organization by the Argentine Government in 2025, the same year it also declared the Tren de Aragua terrorist organization.

Since President Javier Milei took office, Argentina has been clear and consistent in its position regarding this situation. We have unequivocally denounced the lack of freedoms and the serious human rights violations, and we have actively contributed, with determination and responsibility, to international efforts aimed at the return of democracy in Venezuela.”

The Argentine Republic requests that the authorities responsible for managing the transition in Venezuela contribute to the immediate release of Argentine citizen Nahuel Gallo, and that his prompt and safe return to our country be guaranteed.

📎 : Pablo Quirno (Chancellor)

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🇦🇷🇵🇾🇵🇪🇧🇴🇨🇷🇪🇨🇸🇻🇩🇴🇹🇹❌🇨🇴🇲🇽🇧🇷🇻🇪 — Argentina-Led Coalition Blocks CELAC Statement Condemning Maduro’s Detention by the United States

▶️An emergency virtual CELAC summit convened by Colombian President Gustavo Petro, with the support of Brazilian President Lula da Silva and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, ended without a joint declaration after Argentina and several other countries rejected condemning the U.S. operation against Nicolás Maduro.

▶️Alongside Argentina, the countries opposing the statement were Paraguay, Peru, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Panama, the Dominican Republic, and Trinidad and Tobago. Argentina played a key role in coordinating this blocking minority. Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno led the strategy, signaling a clear break with the approach promoted by Petro and backed by governments aligned with the Bolivarian axis, including Cuba, Nicaragua, and Honduras.

▶️During the summit, the foreign ministers of Cuba, Nicaragua, and Uruguay, along with representatives from Colombia and the Venezuelan government, delivered strongly critical speeches against the United States.

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