Firestarter wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 4:32 pmSitting leaders of “independent” states are legally immune from prosecution under US law and international norms. But since in January 2019 the US recognised the much ridiculed Juan Guaido as the legitimate president of Venezuela (followed by another 60 countries), they can simply brush that aside.
It never made much sense to me that the unknown Juan Guaido was suddenly called Venezuelan president in 2019.
The following 2 long articles explain how it is connected to plundering Venezuela through a corrupt legal system involving CITGO.
As a result of these legal shenanigans, Venezuela owed billions of dollars to companies whose Venezuelan subsidiaries were nationalised.
Venezuela didn’t pay, so the corporate vulture lawyers, with the help of ‘drain the swamp’ Donald, devised a scheme to get paid through CITGO…
Canadian mining company Crystallex was awarded $1.2 billion in compensation from Venezuela by the US. To seize CITGO assets, the lawyers only had to prove that CITGO was an “alter ego” of the Venezuelan state.
So in 2019, US-based financial accounts — including of CITGO Petroleum — were placed under the authority of the “internationally recognised” president of Venezuela Guaidó, whose National Assembly appointed executives of PdVSA subsidiaries to the board of CITGO, which was then used to argue that CITGO was really owned by the Venezuelan state...
This ultimately enabled Koch Industries, Owens-Illinois, and other corporations to pursue their own claims against CITGO, using the same “alter ego” reasoning to seize CITGO assets, which ultimately led to the below market price sale of CITGO to Trump ‘vulture’ donor Paul Singer.
Guaidó’s representatives also took Venezuela’s seats at the OAS and Inter-American Development Bank.
The key figures appointed to Guaidó’s shadow “government” came from corporate backgrounds — Carlos Vecchio as an ExxonMobil lawyer for years fought for compensation of Venezuela’s oil nationalisation;
Ricardo Hausmann directed a Harvard center funded by Goldman Sachs and Saudi Arabia;
José Ignacio Hernández was selected as Guaido’s attorney general.
In April 2017, José Ignacio Hernández had been a paid expert witness for Crystallex in its legal procedure against Venezuela! Hernández filed a sworn declaration in US court, arguing that Venezuela’s government had transformed PdVSA into “a political tool” and that the “corporate veil” should be lifted to allow seizure of CITGO assets.
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Firestarter wrote: ↑Sat Jan 10, 2026 11:02 amIsn’t it hypocritical that when the Venezuelan government nationalised foreign corporations taking Venezuela’s oil, this was called stealing from the rightful owners of those corporations?
But when the US legal system decides that an investor can buy a company to pay off the debts of a country, this is ‘justice’? Is this ‘international rule of law’?
So what happened is that the corrupt puppet Guaido was somehow called president of Venezuela, who then appointed executives of Venezuela’s state oil company PdVSA to the board of CITGO, which was then used as an argument to seize billions of CITGO assets by western corporations whose Venezuelan subsidiaries had been nationalised.
Which ultimately led to its sale below its market price to Paul Singer, with the current imprisonment of Maduro now used to increase the market value of CITGO even more, so that Singer will make billions!
Also interesting is that Guaidó emerged from the network of the Serbian CANVAS, which orchestrated colour revolutions across Eastern Europe. Guaidó’s patron Leopoldo López also received US funding.
Every major Venezuelan opposition figure featured in the 2019 coup — Vecchio, López, María Corina Machado — came from US funding streams, training programs, and institutions like Harvard and Georgetown designed to cultivate pro-UK/US elites:
https://archive.is/7AU2V
(long version:
https://archive.is/MxNce)
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Firestarter wrote:In 2002, former Otpor! members, most notably Slobodan Dinović and Srda Popović, founded the Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies (CANVAS) and trained activists for UK/US-backed regime change operations.
Optor! and its successor CANVAS used the strategies of Gene Sharp, ideological guru of the “color revolutions” and founder of The Albert Einstein Institute, whose 1973 blueprint for revolution, “The Politics of Nonviolent Action” was funded by the Pentagon.
viewtopic.php?p=5845#p5845
Here’s a video with the same reporter, Anya Parampil (the wife of the Putin/Khamenei loving Max Blumenthal), explaining how these coups are used to steal Venezuela’s assets.
https://youtu.be/8rkLMS7GSek
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www.bitchute.com/video/OeUFG3q2ptmP)
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I guess that we won’t get new Venezuelan elections any time soon…
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Firestarter wrote: ↑Fri Jan 09, 2026 10:24 amIn April and September 2025, Delcy and Jorge met US representatives in Qatar to make a deal.
This deal involved removing Maduro, while Delcy Rodríguez would become interim president, eventually replaced by retired general Miguel Rodríguez (NOT related to Delcy and Jorge), now living in exile in Spain.
ALL the media seem to argue that Delcy Rodriguez did NOT make a deal with the Trump administration, because she is a hardcore Chavismo communist.
To me this makes it more likely that such a deal was indeed made (only real conspiracy stories are ‘dangerous’)…
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Firestarter wrote: ↑Sat Jan 10, 2026 11:02 amIt isn’t clear why the sanctions against the continued Maduro regime (with everyone except Maduro still in place) would be lifted or why Venezuela would export oil through CITGO, but when that happens, another Trump funder will make billions (with the kidnapping of Maduro only 5 weeks after the purchase of CITGO was approved!)…
Some media argue that Trump’s coup was a complete failure as the Maduro regime is still in place.
Strangely arguing that because the big oil companies demand government guarantees to ‘invest’ in Venezuela, Delcy isn’t a friend of Western oil companies.
Is it really very surprising that big corporations use their control over the government to maximise their profits and minimise their risk:
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/0 ... p-00716501
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Firestarter wrote: ↑Sat Jan 10, 2026 11:02 amThe court-appointed “special master” (whatever that is?) who forced the sale of CITGO to Amber, Robert Pincus, sits on the board of directors for AIPAC. Paul Singer is AIPAC’s third largest donor since 2022, donating $3 million.
What’s another conflict of interest anyway?!?
Apparently there are some complaints about these conflicts of interest…
US law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges served as counsel to Special Master Robert Pincus, a retired partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. Evercore is Pincus’s financial advisor on the auction.
Singer’s Elliott has hired Weil, while allegedly both Weil and Evercore have also represented bondholders, who will receive proceeds from Elliott affiliate Amber Energy’s purchase of CITGO:
https://archive.is/4fyY8
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Firestarter wrote:I haven’t quite been able to find a good story on the corruption of the big international law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, which was also involved in lobbying for Ukraine with Mercury and Podesta, and also “forgot” to register as a foreign agent, but I found some interesting connections…
viewtopic.php?p=86553#p86553
Apparently not many are reporting on Wilbur Ross making money from Venezuela…
Firestarter wrote: ↑Thu Sep 19, 2019 3:00 pmLongtime Rothschild banker and Trump’s Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross first invested in Navigator Holdings in 2011. In the summer of 2012, WL Ross took control of Navigator by buying a further $110 million stake from the collapsed Lehman Brothers bank. Navigator Holdings earns millions a year transporting oil and gas for the Russian Sibur.
Putin’s son-in-law Shamalov holds a large stake in Sibur and is its deputy chairman.
In 2016, 31.5% was still held by entities in which Ross has a stake (WLR). In 2017, the WLR stake in Navigator was worth about $179 million, but it is not clear how much is (still) held by Ross personally.
Navigator vessels also carried out extensive business with the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA, records show, at a time when Venezuela’s government was cracking down on opposition.
