Yup. I really hope this is done carefully. When the US invaded Grenada, the reason why the invasion was successful was that virtually all of the population did not want Coard in power, and that he wasn’t given enough time for people to get used to him. After the invasion, there was an interim period and government before elections were held again.
My worry now is that even if a minority of people support Maduro, if that minority has enough weapons and economic support, the situation can devolve quickly. When Machado is president, I hope enough people support her inside the country. It’s one thing to talk outside, but inside is what matters. Many of those refugees need to return to help the country. Maduro supporters and people receiving benefits need to be handled extremely carefully.
For many CARICOM countries, they need to make preparations now. The new regime will be pulling the purse strings in terms of aid and oil deals. The region needs to wake up and realize that not everything is guaranteed forever.
An illegitimate head of state, reminder that Maduro lost the elections, ousted the opposition party and killed the people protesting so that the will of the people (No more Maduro) would be respected.
When will latin american countries learn from history what happens after the US ousts a leader, its rarely ever been good 🤦🏾.
Yeah Maduro is a dictator, no shit. But do you think yanks of all people care about that alone?
What's stopping them from handpicking a fascist puppet from the other side to replace him there's nothing Venezuelans could do to stop it. We're going back to cold war era coups in 2026
Exactly. History has shown every time the U.S intervened in Latin America, it was followed by horrible dictators and mass killings/kidnapping. The U.S intervening in Afghanistan also led to so much destabilization in the region, and they practically walked away years later without establishing a new credible government. Practically gave way for ISIS and other groups to take over.
Americas interventions for decades have really ruined many parts of the world. You could say the same for some parts of Asia as well, like Vietnam. American soldiers were vile, and committed so many war crimes while there (r*pe, and mass killings of civilians who couldn’t fight back, were so common). The U.S is not who I’d want taking the lead or helping with the transition into a new government.
"We're going to run the country until a proper transition can take place." Right out of Trump's mouth. They never learn, but who don't hear must feel. They gonna bleed that country of its oil.
"We are a peaceful people,
Struggle as we struggle,
And we don't look for trouble,
Just ask around,
But when outside faces,
From foreign places,
Talk about taking over,
We ain't backing down,
We ain't giving up no mountains,
We ain't giving up no tree,
We ain't giving up no river,
That belongs to we,
Not one blue saki,
Not one rice grain,
Not one kuras,
Not a blade of grass". 🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾
I'm Caribbean American, i can only speak for myself as an American dealing with Donald trump in his 2nd term. A lot of Venezuelans are happy with Maduro being captured and i can understand why; BUT there are a lot of implications that comes with this and there's no telling what Venezuela will do after this, there's a lot of potential scenarios that can happen. A few things are for sure though.
1. Trump is only doing this for American gain, he is in it for oil and to further Israel's agenda in global politics.
2. If Venezuela were to take military action, Trinidad & Tobago is going to be first on their list for strikes. I am hoping it doesn't escalate to that, but now ANYTHING is possible.
3. Maduro needed to go, but Donald Trump did not do it correctly or with tact.
If Venezuela were to take military action, Trinidad & Tobago is going to be first on their list for strikes. I am hoping it doesn't escalate to that, but now ANYTHING is possible.
Venezuela has been threatening to invade T&T since early last year.
Same thing for us. Venezuela has threatened to invade us multiple times for years so I have mixed feelings because on one has we might not get invaded anymore and on the other they just made it worse for us. And it's not like the haven't invade us already because they have heavy military presence on ancoco island
This is all before they got bombed. Of course they're not going to do anything first because other countries would've just came to their aide, they were now bombed and they know that Trump is not going to Do anything to help Trinidad & Tobago. Because he won't. They will absolutely risk that knowing how close the 2 countries are.
If there wasn't anything to worry about, Trinidad wouldn't be at a heightened sense of security. They would be secure in knowing the United States had their back.
Venezuela has not been threatening invasion. Venezuela said that if they were attacked from T&T territory they would retaliate. And you are quoting the Trinidad Guardian...deep investigative and analytical journalism at work here.
Exactly, Diosdado ordering the military to attack civilians celebrating that they are no longer under a dictatorship is a terrorist tactic.
Kudos to Pelucas for getting Maduro, but Venezuela won't begin to heal until Diosdado, Padrino and Rodriguez are also joinked and join Maduro in a trial for their crimes against Venezuela and its people, or even better, receive the same treatment Chavez remains did.
Is what you’re saying accurate. Even still, it is for Venezuelans to decide what happens not America. Just so you know the US doesn’t give a fuck about Venezuela, they want the oil and want American companies to profit. The social stratification will get worse and more Venezuelans will flee
Oye, do you think innocent Venezuelans deserve to die, we in the Caribbean DO NOT WANT American imperialism. We didn’t have this with bush or Obama. Trump comes in and we in shit. Trump is fucking us over and we don’t want this.
There will always be people who are for and against a certain leader. Should Germany invade the US and capture Donald Trump for killing people at sea with no trial?
You have a point, but this was actually a good thing, Venezuelans and many people who have shit governments like in Venezuela usually don't revolt and just leave. A country with power should help if they can.
Its a disgusting invasion of another ppls land that WILL kill innocent ppl. And America intentions are to secure their capitalist interests disguised as helping Venezuelans overthrow a "bad" leader nothing else. Fucking learn from pass invasions.
Yeah Bush and Obama just went into the Middle East and killed millions instead😂. What a smart individual, the current administration are no saints but stop acting like Bush and Obama were better just because they didn't interfere with the Caribbean. Maduro was terrible for Venezuelan people and anything would be better than him.
Replacing Venezuela's President won't cause anything in the Caribbean. Anyway the reason why I'm for this is because Venezuelans have suffered for too long and I'm just praying things change for the better. I get your fears but it does nothing negative for us.
I forgot about that, Trinidad's government shouldn't have gotten involved in that whole ordeal. However, Venezuela can't and won't try to get revenge because they know they can't mess with Uncle Sam.
Yup. I really hope this is done carefully. When the US invaded Grenada, the reason why the invasion was successful was that virtually all of the population did not want Coard in power, and that he wasn’t given enough time for people to get used to him. After the invasion, there was an interim period and government before elections were held again.
My worry now is that even if a minority of people support Maduro, if that minority has enough weapons and economic support, the situation can devolve quickly. When Machado is president, I hope enough people support her inside the country. It’s one thing to talk outside, but inside is what matters. Many of those refugees need to return to help the country. Maduro supporters and people receiving benefits need to be handled extremely carefully.
For many CARICOM countries, they need to make preparations now. The new regime will be pulling the purse strings in terms of aid and oil deals. The region needs to wake up and realize that not everything is guaranteed forever.
All I hope is guyana isn't affected 😭😭😭
If anything Guyana won’t have to worry about the Essequibo anymore
Essequibo has offshore oil. The Guyanese should be even more worried.
Exxon and cnooc already got it locked up.
I guess
Machado is a war monger supporting a foreign action in her country to remove a head of country
An illegitimate head of state, reminder that Maduro lost the elections, ousted the opposition party and killed the people protesting so that the will of the people (No more Maduro) would be respected.
Elections are rigged every day around the world. It is not the United States’ duty to invade a country when an election is rigged.
When will latin american countries learn from history what happens after the US ousts a leader, its rarely ever been good 🤦🏾.
Yeah Maduro is a dictator, no shit. But do you think yanks of all people care about that alone?
What's stopping them from handpicking a fascist puppet from the other side to replace him there's nothing Venezuelans could do to stop it. We're going back to cold war era coups in 2026
Exactly. History has shown every time the U.S intervened in Latin America, it was followed by horrible dictators and mass killings/kidnapping. The U.S intervening in Afghanistan also led to so much destabilization in the region, and they practically walked away years later without establishing a new credible government. Practically gave way for ISIS and other groups to take over.
Americas interventions for decades have really ruined many parts of the world. You could say the same for some parts of Asia as well, like Vietnam. American soldiers were vile, and committed so many war crimes while there (r*pe, and mass killings of civilians who couldn’t fight back, were so common). The U.S is not who I’d want taking the lead or helping with the transition into a new government.
"We're going to run the country until a proper transition can take place." Right out of Trump's mouth. They never learn, but who don't hear must feel. They gonna bleed that country of its oil.
not a blade of grass 🇬🇾
"We are a peaceful people, Struggle as we struggle, And we don't look for trouble, Just ask around, But when outside faces, From foreign places, Talk about taking over, We ain't backing down, We ain't giving up no mountains, We ain't giving up no tree, We ain't giving up no river, That belongs to we, Not one blue saki, Not one rice grain, Not one kuras, Not a blade of grass". 🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾
I really hope that Trinidad and Guyana aren’t the retaliatory target because that regime doesn’t seem to want any direct smoke with Uncle Sam
That is my main worry
I'm Caribbean American, i can only speak for myself as an American dealing with Donald trump in his 2nd term. A lot of Venezuelans are happy with Maduro being captured and i can understand why; BUT there are a lot of implications that comes with this and there's no telling what Venezuela will do after this, there's a lot of potential scenarios that can happen. A few things are for sure though. 1. Trump is only doing this for American gain, he is in it for oil and to further Israel's agenda in global politics. 2. If Venezuela were to take military action, Trinidad & Tobago is going to be first on their list for strikes. I am hoping it doesn't escalate to that, but now ANYTHING is possible. 3. Maduro needed to go, but Donald Trump did not do it correctly or with tact.
Venezuela has been threatening to invade T&T since early last year.
They claimed multiple times that T&T is harbouring terrorists and that they would pursue those terrorists inside our territory; https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/venezuela-again-accuses-tt-of-harbouring-terrorist-6.2.2372275.46c32d57f5
And that Trinidadian mafias are destabilizing their country and they need to confront these mafias permanently; https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/venezuela-accuses-trinidadian-mafias-of-destabilising-country-6.2.2389551.e344fb7341
If anything, it's less likely that they strike T&T now because they wouldn't risk attacking a country with US military assets.
Same thing for us. Venezuela has threatened to invade us multiple times for years so I have mixed feelings because on one has we might not get invaded anymore and on the other they just made it worse for us. And it's not like the haven't invade us already because they have heavy military presence on ancoco island
This is all before they got bombed. Of course they're not going to do anything first because other countries would've just came to their aide, they were now bombed and they know that Trump is not going to Do anything to help Trinidad & Tobago. Because he won't. They will absolutely risk that knowing how close the 2 countries are.
If there wasn't anything to worry about, Trinidad wouldn't be at a heightened sense of security. They would be secure in knowing the United States had their back.
Venezuela has not been threatening invasion. Venezuela said that if they were attacked from T&T territory they would retaliate. And you are quoting the Trinidad Guardian...deep investigative and analytical journalism at work here.
Please for the love of God do Cuba next
It's planned
https://preview.redd.it/3lthjlmcf6bg1.jpeg?width=1069&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0016fef911fff59810bf663b40e3fb43f2966e60
Une pierre, deux coups. With access to Venezuelan oil cut off. Cuba is throttled.
He probably paid himself the bounty with Americans tax dollars Hahaa.
I mean he wasn't the one to capture him so who knows
Terrorist country doing terrorist things.
Exactly, Diosdado ordering the military to attack civilians celebrating that they are no longer under a dictatorship is a terrorist tactic.
Kudos to Pelucas for getting Maduro, but Venezuela won't begin to heal until Diosdado, Padrino and Rodriguez are also joinked and join Maduro in a trial for their crimes against Venezuela and its people, or even better, receive the same treatment Chavez remains did.
Is what you’re saying accurate. Even still, it is for Venezuelans to decide what happens not America. Just so you know the US doesn’t give a fuck about Venezuela, they want the oil and want American companies to profit. The social stratification will get worse and more Venezuelans will flee
They already decided, last year.
Oye, do you think innocent Venezuelans deserve to die, we in the Caribbean DO NOT WANT American imperialism. We didn’t have this with bush or Obama. Trump comes in and we in shit. Trump is fucking us over and we don’t want this.
How do you think Venezuelans are reacting right now?
We don't have to guess my friend was scared for her life. People who witnessed the explosions were terrified. She & most others do want Maduro gone.
He is a dictator but we know from history that when its the US ousting dictators, the replacement they choose is never any better.
US backs and also install dictatorships, even in your country..
The sky is blue in other news
US soliders in your country is literally never a good thing, can y'all read a fking book man.
Panama is a success story after Noriega. DR is better off after Trujillo although many criticize US intervention.
The point is this continuation of Iraq, Libya, Palestine, Syria policy we have seen for the past 30 years.
There will always be people who are for and against a certain leader. Should Germany invade the US and capture Donald Trump for killing people at sea with no trial?
You have a point, but this was actually a good thing, Venezuelans and many people who have shit governments like in Venezuela usually don't revolt and just leave. A country with power should help if they can.
Are trinis usually this stupid wtf 😆, i hope this is not the consensus in Trinidad as this is a clear imperialist invasion.
Its a disgusting invasion of another ppls land that WILL kill innocent ppl. And America intentions are to secure their capitalist interests disguised as helping Venezuelans overthrow a "bad" leader nothing else. Fucking learn from pass invasions.
Yeah Bush and Obama just went into the Middle East and killed millions instead😂. What a smart individual, the current administration are no saints but stop acting like Bush and Obama were better just because they didn't interfere with the Caribbean. Maduro was terrible for Venezuelan people and anything would be better than him.
Did they cause destabilisation in the Caribbean? And I’m not saying they were saints. Blowback is real. As in all these countries you mentioned
Replacing Venezuela's President won't cause anything in the Caribbean. Anyway the reason why I'm for this is because Venezuelans have suffered for too long and I'm just praying things change for the better. I get your fears but it does nothing negative for us.
These things are linked. Where do you think Venezuela will direct their ire after this? Trinidad and Tobago, the staging place for the US
I forgot about that, Trinidad's government shouldn't have gotten involved in that whole ordeal. However, Venezuela can't and won't try to get revenge because they know they can't mess with Uncle Sam.
They did in socialist Granada.
How do you think Maurice Bishop died? Thanks to Bernard coward
As if they were on the run.
“Supposedly”?
I didn't see any pictures at the time so I didn't know if it was true or false because people like to fake stuff alot
And who created this bounty ? For the head of one of the world’s biggest fossil fuel suppliers.
Trump created to bounty
You mean kidnapping
Isn't captured and kidnapped the same thing?. especially since he had a bounty on his head? Not tryna be rude or anything just curious
We all need to brush up on Walter Rodney and Frantz Fanon this year