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Far more than a first lady, #CiliaFlores is one of #Venezuela’s most powerful #political figures. She built extraordinary #influence over decades while largely operating from the shadows. Flores shaped a #judicial system in which nearly every major decision ran through her & embedded state institutions with relatives & loyalists, acc/to journalists, analysts & former officials. At the same time, they noted, her family amassed vast, unexplained wealth.

#law #Maduro #Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/world/americas/cilia-flores-maduro-wife-venezuela.html?smid=url-share

https://www.nytimes.com

Who Is Cilia Flores, the Power Broker Captured Alongside Maduro?

su_liam

@su_liam@mas.to replied · last week

@Nonilex Now the motherfucker is “running”(ruining) two countries. If only the U.S. knew what to do with dictators. First hint: not elect the ratbastard shitbags. Second hint: ask the NRA what the 2a is for…

Kruku

@Kruku@mastodon.bida.im replied · last week

@Nonilex
I know it's a natural reaction not to overstate already tense situations but butterflies are "captured". Can we call the illegal seizing of Venezuela's President Maduro & his wife while missile strikes were ongoing in Venezuela by US military forces all on the orders of the US' President Trump, without a declaration of war what it is; a "war crime"

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai replied · last week

@Kruku

Hence the hashtags #law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #Trump #abduction #Venezuela #oil #LandGrab #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw

Kruku

@Kruku@mastodon.bida.im replied · last week

@Nonilex
Yes, of course, But my comment was more directed at mainstream media & all of us that repeat their headlines with comment. Also I was thrashing a bit.

Kruku

@Kruku@mastodon.bida.im replied · last week

@Nonilex
Yes, of course, But my comment was more directed at mainstream media & all of us that repeat there headlines with comment. Also I was thrashing a bit.

Kruku

@Kruku@mastodon.bida.im replied · last week

@Nonilex
Yes, of course, But my comment was more directed at mainstream media & all of us that repeat there headlines with comment.

Sean Lynch

@SeanPLynch@mastodon.social replied · last week

@Nonilex

Operation Enduring Epstein

FurballsNHairballs

@ChrisHolladay@mastodon.social replied · last week

@Nonilex
Welcome to 21st century piracy.

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai replied · last week

US AG #PamBondi said #Maduro & his wife would face charges after an indictment in New York. Bondi vowed in a social media post that the couple would “soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts.”

#Trump announced the developments on Truth Social shortly after 4:30AM ET & said he would host a news conference at 11AM ET.

#law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #abduction #Venezuela #oil #LandGrab #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw

PG19582🇺🇸🇹🇩🇺🇦🇵🇸

@PG19582@mastodon.social replied · last week

@Nonilex FOR WHAT CRIME? trump is the perpetrator!

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai replied · last week

#Trump brushed off criticism from US Democratic lawmakers that he did not seek permission from #Congress ahead of time & that the strike was #illegal. He called his Democratic critics “weak, stupid people” & blamed his political opponents for inflation in the US.

He said the operation in #Venezuela was “really genius.”

“All they do is complain,” he said of the #Democrats.

#law #WarPowers #criminal #abduction #oil #LandGrab #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw

Sad Lee Uneek 🇨🇦🇧🇧🇲🇽🇬🇱

@bardmoss@autistics.life replied · last week

@Nonilex
If all you do is illegal shit, and they can't have you arrested, then complaining's about all that's left.

Dr G

@EthicalProfessor@mstdn.social replied · last week

@Nonilex

What an interesting misspelling of the word illegal.

FurballsNHairballs

@ChrisHolladay@mastodon.social replied · last week

@Nonilex
A stroke or cardiac arrest can't get here soon enough.

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai replied · last week

“They should say, ‘Great job.’ They shouldn’t say, ‘Oh Gee, maybe it’s not constitutional.’ You know, the same old stuff that we’ve been hearing for years & years & years,” #Trump said who very likely has never read the #US #Constitution.

#law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #abduction #Venezuela #oil #LandGrab #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw

Tom DB 🦣

@TomDB@mastodon-belgium.be replied · last week

@Nonilex And THAT is the whole problem for the democratic party. Trump doesn't give rat's a$$ for the constitution or rules and the democrats still keep pretending that rules matter now. They should seek other ways to block him.

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai replied · last week

#Trump told FauxNews that #Maduro & his wife were aboard the US warship Iwo Jima & headed to NY, where they will face prosecution.

🚨Trump said in an interview Saturday morning that the #US will be making decisions on what is next for #Venezuela.🚨

“We can’t take a chance in letting somebody else run and just take over what he left, or left off.”

#law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #abduction #oil #LandGrab #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai replied · last week

Venezuelan ruling party leader Nahum Fernández told The Associated Press that Nicolás #Maduro & his wife were at their home within the Ft. Tiuna military installation when they were captured.

“That’s where they bombed,” he said. “And, there, they carried out what we could call a kidnapping of the president & the first lady of the country.”

#law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #Trump #abduction #Venezuela #oil #LandGrab #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw

Nicole Parsons

@Npars01@mstdn.social replied · last week

@Nonilex

Inside job.

CIA operated military junta headed for Venezuelan rule.

Steve Hersey

@n1xnx@tilde.zone replied · last week

@Nonilex

I'm thinking that there must be some REALLY bad stuff for Trump in the Epstein files to merit a distraction of this magnitude.

Minnesota 123456

@Minnesota411988@mastodon.social replied · last week

@Nonilex

“Kidnapping” is definitely the correct word. Using “capturing” in its place is obscuring, gaslighting, etc., what has been done.

#uspol

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai replied · last week

#EU foreign policy chief #KajaKallas wrote on X that she had spoken with #US Secy of State #MarcoRubio & the EU ambassador in Caracas. “The EU has repeatedly stated that Mr #Maduro lacks legitimacy & has defended a peaceful transition. Under all circumstances, the principles of #InternationalLaw & the #UN Charter must be respected. We call for restraint.”

Meaningless ⤴︎

#law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #Trump #abduction #Venezuela #oil #LandGrab #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings

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Shadedlady

@Shadedlady@mstdn.social replied · last week

@Nonilex remember trump shouting at zelensky 'your gambling with world war 3'. He's doing it himself, interfering in geopolitical situations that he has no business or knowledge in. Americans have put in power a madman

Dr G

@EthicalProfessor@mstdn.social replied · last week

@Nonilex

Fascist pedophile says what?

Bandit 🐐

@bandit@indieweb.social replied · last week

@Nonilex

Oh, so now we are capturing world leaders now?

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