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The United States has released a new NOTAM for the entire Venezuelan Flight Information Region (FIR), warning of a potentially hazardous security environment amid worsening conditions and heightened military activity in and around Venezuela.
Source: https://bsky.app/profile/azintel.bsky.

Exclusive: US seizes vessel off Venezuelan coast, officials say (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-interdicting-sanctioned-vessel-off-venezuelan-coast-officials-say-2025-12-20/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251220/p46#a251220p46

https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/us-charges-54-atm-jackpotting/

US Charges 54 in Massive ATM Jackpotting Conspiracy
The US has charged 54 individuals in a massive ATM jackpotting conspiracy linked to Venezuelan crime syndicate Tren de Aragua, accused of stealing millions

"US armed forces’ seizure of the oil tanker constituted an unlawful use of force in violation of the UN Charter. This is the largest military buildup of US firepower in the Caribbean in decades. **If regime change succeeds in Venezuela, Cuba may be next**"
US Relied on Illegal Sanctions To Seize Venezuelan Oil Tanker | Portside
https://portside.org/2025-12-18/us-relied-illegal-sanctions-seize-venezuelan-oil-tanker

“A massive cyberattack that crippled Venezuela’s oil and gas infrastructure bears many of the telltales of a U.S. operation, according to former U.S. officials and cyber experts.”
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/natio

U.S. to repatriate survivors of drug boat strike to Colombia, Ecuador
The United States plans to repatriate two alleged fishermen to Colombia and Ecuador after military forces attacked their vessel in the Caribbean on Thursday.

Facing questions about the legality of the strikes, the Trump administration has sought to justify the killings by claiming the U.S. is in “armed conflict” with Latin American drug cartels that are linked to Venezuelan President Nicolšs Maduro’s alleged e…

U.S. to repatriate survivors of drug boat strike to Colombia, Ecuador
It is unclear if the two surviving alleged drug smugglers have any links to Venezuelan criminal organizations.

U.S. boards un-sanctioned tanker with Venezuelan oil to tighten blockade (Marc Caputo/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/20/venezuelan-oil-tanker-trump-us
http://www.memeorandum.com/251220/p38#a251220p38

"[Both Trump and Rubio have] portrayed Maduro as a cartel leader, in charge of groups like the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. Those assertions, however, have been contradicted by the US intelligence community, which found no evidence that Maduro controls the gang."
Five key takeaways from US State Secretary Rubio’s year-end briefing | Politics News | Al Jazeera

Five key takeaways from US State Secretary Rubio’s year-end briefing
Top US diplomat Marco Rubio reiterates hard line against Venezuela’s Maduro, says Ukraine conflict is ‘not our war’.

😲 Norwegian Officials Probe Major Polymarket Bets on Nobel Peace Winner
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/10/11/norwegian-officials-probe-major-polymarket-bets-on-nobel-peace-winner

Norwegian Officials Probe Major Polymarket Bets on Nobel Peace Winner
A trader with a new account and no prior betting history placed a $70,000 bet on Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado winning the prize.

Venezuelan opposition leader awarded Nobel Peace Prize, sought by Trump: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/10/venezuelan-opposition-leader-awarded-nobel.html

So a US aircraft carrier is stationed off the Venezuelan coast. How close do they have to get in order to pull off a Tonkin Gulf style fake attack so Trump can declare war?

U.S. Coast Guard Boards Tanker Carrying Venezuelan Oil (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/us-coast-guard-venezuela-oil-tanker.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251220/p44#a251220p44

Venezuelan opposition politician María Corina Machado
has won the Nobel peace prize
for her dogged struggle to rescue the South American country from its fate as
“a brutal, authoritarian state”.
Machado, 58, a conservative often described as Venezuela’s Iron Lady,
has spent the last year living in hiding
after her political movement was widely believed to have beaten the country’s president, Nicolšs Maduro,
in the July 2024 presidential election.

Bueno, y el premio Nobel de la Paz 2025 es para la venezolana Maria Corina Machado
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nobel-peace-prize-maria-corina-machado-venezuela-opposition-leader-2025/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/11/lawmakers-venezuela-oil-tanker

An army veteran and Purple Heart recipient who served two tours in Iraq was deported on Friday morning from an immigration detention facility in Florence, Arizona.
Arizona state representative Raquel Teršn told Fox 10 Phoenix that Jose Barco, a Venezuelan-born veteran whose family fled Cuba as refugees, was deported at 4am from Arizona.
Anna Stout, a volunteer on Barco’s defense team, told Denver 7 his team was not notified of plans for his deportation.
Barco’s family has s…

Just what Trump liked: a Venezuelan woman!

How the Venezuelan government is using crypto and stablecoins like USDT to manage the downturn; Venezuela sells most of its oil to China and is paid in crypto (Anatoly Kurmanaev/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/20…

How Maduro Is Responding to Trump’s Pressure on Venezuela’s Economy
President Nicolás Maduro’s opponents hope a new period of economic pain will finally topple his government. He is using cryptocurrency to hold on.

AURORA, The Colorado city spotlighted by Trump & MAGA as being overrun by Venezuelan gangs, booted the republican council members who echoed the claims, bigly, and elected 2 progressives in their place, tipping the longstanding conservative majority.
Gifted article. #progressivepolitics

Trump said gangs invaded this city. Voters booted the officials who agreed.
Liberals who won in Aurora, Colorado, say voters were focused on affordability, trash and other local issues.

Trump's Venezuelan Boat Excuse So Bad It Makes 'Iraq Has WMDs' Look Bulletproof | Crooks and Liars
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/10/trump-justification-venezuelan-boat

president participation trophy.
#uspol<…

FIFA gives its new peace prize to Trump
FIFA gives its new peace prize to President Donald Trump. It’s an unusual break from tradition for the sport-focused soccer organization, whose president has become a close ally of Trump. The ceremony happened Friday during the 2026 World Cup draw at the Kennedy Center in Washington. It comes after Trump had openly campaigned for the Nobel Peace Prize, which was awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado. FIFA president Gianni Infantino had said he thought Trump should have …

"I have made [PM Mark Carney] very popular”
"We're going to be talking about Gaza”
"We could have peace in the Middle East”
he jokes “The Merger of Canada and USA”
Carney: ‘that's not where I was going”
Carney looks bemused as The American Fascist talks about the ‘hell hole' that DC was.
he's talking about "zero" people coming through the south border.
... Carney doing his best to keep a straight face... the things that must be going through his mind as the Fascist rambles about Canada benefiting from Venezuelan boats being blown up.
#canPoli #CdnPoli #US

In further escalations against #Venezuela, King #DJT decreed that the airspace above the northern most country on the continent South America is closed... The threat against any air travel in the nation is immediate deadly attack by the US military which he controls with his Nazi tattooed tool Herr Hegseth.
As Presi…

Trump Declares Venezuelan Airspace Closed
President Trump said days earlier that the United States could “very soon” expand its campaign of killing people at sea suspected of drug trafficking to attacking Venezuelan territory.

Deutsche Polizeibehörden wollen unbedingt ein Produkt einer Firma verwenden, deren Chef Kriegsverbrechen legalisieren will.
https://futurism.com/future-society/palantir-ceo-war-crimes

Palantir CEO Says Legalizing War Crimes Would Be Good for Business
Palantir CEO Alex Karp recently rhapsodized that US air strikes on Venezuelan civilians would be good for business, if only it were legal.

"King" Trump has signed what’s called a “presidential finding,”
or a classified directive authorizing covert action, against the regime of Venezuelan ruler Nicolšs Maduro.
This would allow the CIA to conduct “lethal operations in Venezuela”
as well as “a range of operations in the Caribbean,” according to the Times.
Covert action could be taken “either unilaterally or in conjunction with a larger military operation.”

America First? Trump Authorizes “Covert” CIA Action in Venezuela
The CIA now has greater authority in leading lethal operations in Venezuela.

"As per Trumpian fantasy, the ringleader of the narco-terror operation is none other than Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro himself.
"Never mind that Venezuela has approximately zero to do with drugs entering the US and doesn’t even produce fentanyl."
The US is already at war with Venezuela | Donald Trump | Al Jazeera

The US is already at war with Venezuela
Trump’s violent new tactics build on years of US sanctions and intervention that have devastated ordinary Venezuelans.

Unlawful Attacks on Venezuelan Vessels (Eric Friedman/New York City Bar Association)
https://www.nycbar.org/press-releases/unlawful-attacks-on-venezuelan-vessels/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251006/p131#a251006p131

The #Trump #murder policy
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-venezuela-boat-str…

The Trump Murder Policy
Let's call his strikes on Venezuelan boats for what they are.

US lawmakers voice concerns about Venezuelan tanker seizure:
‘sounds a lot like the beginning of a war’
Senator Mark Warner of Virginia,
the top Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee, questioned how the US was able to seize an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday
but “not a drug boat”
– referring to the suspected
drug-trafficking vessel that was the target of the 2 September double-tap strike.
Warner has been part of the choru…

Donald Trump says he is considering strikes on Venezuelan soil (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e0675a04-804a-4703-bb29-b84d628161aa
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p17#a251016p17

"The Venezuelan people, already suffering under economic collapse and political repression, now face the prospect of becoming collateral damage in someone else’s power consolidation project."
Venezuela’s crisis is not an oil grab but a power grab | Donald Trump | Al Jazeera

Venezuela’s crisis is not an oil grab but a power grab
Trump has manufactured the Venezuela crisis, not to grab more oil but to expand his executive power.

US Supreme Court lets Trump strip temporary status from Venezuelan migrants (Andrew Chung/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-supreme-court-lets-trump-strip-temporary-status-venezuelan-migrants-2025-10-03/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251003/p106#a251003p106

A bipartisan measure to block the Trump administration’s lethal strikes against alleged Venezuelan drug smugglers fell short in the Senate on Wednesday night,
in what Democratic lawmakers framed as a failure of Congress to assert its constitutional role to decide whether the country enters war.

In the past two months, the U.S. military has struck at least four boats in the Caribbean Sea, killing 21 people.
Military officials in multiple classified briefings have not defin…

Bipartisan measure to restrict Trump’s war powers fails in Senate
A bipartisan Senate resolution to restrain Trump’s ability to wage war against alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers failed in a 48-51 vote.

The timing of this act of piracy and theft by the USA's Trump regime is revealing: the day the Venezuelan coup supporter (who called for invasion of her country) incomprehensibly receives the Nobel peace prize.
It's theatre, but of an extremely ominous form.
US seizes oil tanker off Venezuela as Caracas condemns 'act of piracy'

US seizes oil tanker off Venezuela as Caracas condemns 'act of piracy'
The move is a sharp escalation in Washington's pressure campaign against Nicolás Maduro's government.

On Dec. 6, people across the United States marched.
They protested.
They carried banners:
No war on Venezuela.
No blood for oil.
US hands off Venezuela.
They chanted and waved Venezuelan flags.
Trump says he’s coming to remove Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
-- He’s promised it’s only a matter of time.
The United States has amassed the largest military buildup in the Caribbean since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. 
But accordi…

Thousands march across US against Trump’s drive for war in Venezuela
Over the weekend, thousands of people protested in more than 65 cities across the United States against US intervention in Venezuela. This is episode 80 of Stories of Resistance.

Trump says he believes Hegseth '100%' on Venezuelan drug boat strike denial amid allegations (Greg Wehner/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-says-he-believes-hegseth-100-venezuelan-drug-boat-strike-denial-amid-allegations
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p59#a251130p59

U.S. Eyes Striking Venezuelan Military Targets Used for Drug Trafficking (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/u-s-eyes-striking-venezuelan-military-targets-used-for-drug-trafficking-cafcfe47?st=tchg4R
http://www.memeorandum.com/251031/p51#a251031p51

🏙️ Mamdani Can Learn From Latin American Municipal Socialism
#politics

Mamdani Can Learn From Latin American Municipal Socialism
From 2005 to 2016, against the wishes of both the country’s ruling and opposition parties, the small Venezuelan municipality of Torres underwent a radical experiment in democracy, giving residents direct power over the budget. It worked.

Oh, goody - another war.
Trump Says US Will Soon Act Against Venezuelan Drug Traffickers on Land | Thomson/Reuters
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/venezuela/2025/11/27/id/1236305/

Trump Downplays Venezuelan Airspace Threat as US Mulls New Steps (Josh Wingrove/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-30/trump-downplays-venezuelan-airspace-threat-as-us-mulls-new-steps
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p51#a251130p51

The strikes on the Venezuelan boats
-- allegedly carrying "narcotics"
-- which the administration has claimed were necessary because interdiction "did not work,"
have been orchestrated through the homeland security council (HSC)
-- which Stephen Miller leads
as the homeland security adviser.
Miller empowered the HSC earlier this year to become its own entity in Donald Trump’s second term
-- a notable departure from previous administ…

Russia seeks answers from US on seizure of tanker off Venezuelan coast (TASS)
https://tass.com/politics/2057139
http://www.memeorandum.com/251212/p2#a251212p2

How Venezuelan Gangs and African Jihadists Are Flooding Europe With Cocaine (Benoit Faucon/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/how-venezuelan-gangs-and-african-jihadists-are-flooding-europe-with-cocaine-656f023f
http://www.memeorandum.com/251201/p132#a251201p132

Rand Paul predicts GOP will 'fracture' over Venezuelan strikes (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/23/rand-paul-gop-venezuelan-strikes-00666488
http://www.memeorandum.com/251123/p53#a251123p53

Judge James E. Boasberg said he wants to hear from former Justice Dept. attorney Erez Reuveni
in an inquiry over whether Trump administration officials should be referred for prosecution
for disobeying a court order that temporarily barred two airplanes carrying Venezuelan detainees from proceeding to El Salvador.

In a confrontation between the Trump administration and the federal judiciary,
revived after a months-long delay for appeals,
Chief U.S. District Jud…

Judge calls for Justice Dept. whistleblower to testify in migrant planes case
Chief U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg of the District of Columbia has scheduled the former Justice Department attorney to appear in court on Dec. 15.

Lawmakers react to US seizure of Venezuelan oil tanker (Max Rego/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5643306-us-venezuela-war-fears/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251210/p140#a251210p140

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/nobel-peace-prize-oslo-41b6bff88e2d57af0917bcf778e132ad
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p22#a251010p22

Donald Trump has been using fictional figures to justify his controversial military strikes on alleged drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean near Venezuela.
“Every boat kills about 25,000 people,” Trump said in a speech last week.
“Every one of those boats is responsible for the death of 25,000 American people, and the destruction of families,”
he said in a speech Sunday.
“Probably saved at least 100,000 lives, American lives
– Canadian lives
– by taking …

Fact check: Trump’s absurd claim that he saved 100,000 lives by attacking alleged Venezuelan drug boats
President Donald Trump has been using fictional figures to justify his controversial military strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean near Venezuela.

On Friday, Judge Boasberg ordered the administration to submit declarations by December 5
from all officials involved in the decision not to return the flights to the U.S.
He said he will then decide whether to seek testimony from witnesses.
The declarations should detail the officials’ roles in the decision, the judge said in the brief order.
Justice Department attorneys had urged him to abandon the probe,
but Boasberg said he must determine whether Homeland S…

Trump officials face contempt probe over migrant flights
A federal judge in Washington has relaunched his contempt probe of the Trump administration for failing to turn around two planes carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador in March. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg on Friday ordered the administration to submit written statements by December 5 from all officials involved in the decision not to return the planes to the U.S. Boasberg wants to determine whether the Republican administration flouted his order to turn the flights around. The sta…

Paul calls for Hegseth to testify 'under oath' on Venezuelan boat strike orders (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5634197-paul-demands-hegseth-testify-boat-strikes/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p109#a251204p109

Supreme Court lets Trump strip protections from more than 300,000 Venezuelan migrants (Mark Sherman/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-venezuela-immigrants-e0277e3b373818945f50a48bc71b8583
http://www.memeorandum.com/251003/p126#a251003p126

A federal agent's daring plan: Recruit Maduro's pilot to turn on the Venezuelan leader (Joshua Goodman/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/dhs-plan-capture-maduro-pilot-planes-7915d5a0819ceb518a8ca2b47da8b2e5
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p48#a251028p48