Heavy gunfire was reported outside the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas on Monday, just days after President Nicolas Maduro was abducted during a US Special Forces raid.
Videos posted on social media show armed soldiers and armored vehicles outside government buildings. There are also reports of explosions and the activation of air-defense guns. Citing its sources in Venezuela, AFP said the situation is under control.
AFP’s sources added that security forces opened fire in response to unidentified drones flying over Miraflores.
Troops were mobilized after US commandos captured Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, on Saturday and transported them to New York, where both were indicted on fabricated drug-trafficking charges.
Maduro’s close ally, Vice President Delcy Rodriguez, has been appointed interim president. She condemned the US operation as an “imperialist attack.”
USA accuses Maduro of stealing Venezuela’s Rockefeller Oil Reserves
Maduro denied all charges when he was brought before a US judge on Monday, describing himself as a prisoner of war.
Foreign Minister Yvan Gil said the US had launched a colonial war to pillage Venezuela’s natural resources. Today, it was Venezuela. Tomorrow, it can be any other country that decides to exercise its sovereignty.
Moscow and Beijing have also condemned the US raid, with Russian UN envoy Vassily Nebenzia calling it international banditry.
RT. com / ABC Flash Point News 2026.
It might be that the VP betrayed Maduro and that the military is now attempting to oust her and defend their country. Time will tell.
Venezuela, which holds the world’s largest proven oil reserves at about 303 billion barrels, produces around 1.1 million barrels a day, a major drop from the late 2010’s prior to when the country was targeted by crippling Western sanctions.
The usual and planned outcomes of these Wall Street financed kerfuffles are civil war. Like in Ukraine (coming soon) and now Venezuela, and almost any «hot-spot» on the planet. Not far behind the curtain can be found The International …..
The US has demanded that Venezuela cut economic ties with Russia, China, Iran, and Cuba if it wants to pump more oil, ABC News reported on Tuesday, citing three people familiar with the White House’s plan.
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This VP really incompetent she supposed to figured out who are the traitors by now instead she’s talking about corporation with the same evildoers that bomb her country.