🇺🇸📞🇻🇪🪖 — "A U.S. Homeland Security agent allegedly tried to recruit Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s chief pilot to defect and deliver the leader into U.S. custody", AP reports.

➡️ Agent Edwin Lopez, a retired Army Ranger, met secretly with Gen. Bitner Villegas and offered him millions to fly Maduro to a U.S.-controlled location. The plot, part of wider U.S. efforts to remove Maduro, failed after months of encrypted contact. Villegas later reappeared on Venezuelan state TV beside top officials, pledging loyalty to Maduro.

❌ @/Arr3ch0, an X account known for bringing reliable news from the region, is mentioned in the article as a source of information cited by Lopez when speaking to Villegas.

➡️ Realizing that Villegas wasn’t going to join the plan, Lopez and others in the anti-Maduro movement decided to try to unnerve the Venezuelan leader, according to three of the people familiar with the operation.

📝 The day after the testy WhatsApp exchange between Lopez and Villegas, Marshall Billingslea – a close ally of Venezuela’s opposition – took action. A former national security official in Republican administrations, Billingslea had for weeks been trolling Maduro. Now he brought Villegas into his cyberbullying.

“Feliz cumpleanos ‘General’ Bitner!” he wrote in a mocking birthday wish on X the day Villegas turned 48.

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🇧🇷🇧🇷🛩💣 — Brazilian violence and crime: During a major police operation in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro, a drone belonging to members of the criminal faction Comando Vermelho (CV) was caught dropping bombs over the Complexo da Penha area. So far, 23 people have been arrested and 10 have died in the conflict

💥 According to the state government, the criminals’ actions occurred “in retaliation for police operations in the area.” Among those arrested is a suspect identified as the financial operator for Edgar Alves de Andrade, known as “Doca” or “Urso,” one of the leaders of the Comando Vermelho.