Less than 72 hours into 2026, President Trump announced that U.S. military forces, in conjunction with U.S. law enforcement, executed a “large-scale strike” against Venezuela. President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were captured and flown out of the country. In a news conference on January 3, 2026, President Trump described the actions as part of a broader campaign targeting drug smuggling by transnational criminal organizations including Tren de Aragua and Cartel de los Soles.
The real story, however, goes much deeper than the flow of illegal drugs. It’s a strike against a vital apparatus of the Deep State — the very same apparatus that gave us Barack Hussein Obama, two decades of rigged local, state and national elections, Biden’s illegitimate regime, open borders, and even the pervasive fraud by Somalian nationals that dominates today’s headlines.
Nicolas Maduro was a key figure in expanding a Venezuelan-originated election manipulation network. It involved software from companies like Smartmatic and Dominion, influenced U.S. elections since 2006 by remotely altering vote tallies in key districts. Maduro’s system, with ties to Cuba, China, Iran, Serbia, and Cartel de los Soles, a network involving Venezuelan military and political elites, with Colombia’s FARC guerrillas, was part of a broader “ ...
