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🚨Shooting reported at Ohio home of US Vice President JD Vance

Cincinnati police arrested one suspect, but Vance was not at home at the time of the incident.

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🇺🇸 US plans creation of a ‘functional protectorate’ in Venezuela - expert

📍 With Maduro out, Washington is looking to establish “four kinds of control” in Venezuela. Independent Peruvian geopolitical and economic analyst Nicolas Takayama Constantini outlines the mechanics of these measures for Sputnik.

These are:

1️⃣ “indirect political control” via a “provisional authority” or “transition council” approved by Washington

2️⃣ technical and financial control over the oil sector

3️⃣ direct control over oil revenues

4️⃣ some form of US military or security presence

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🇻🇪🔥 Venezuela attack was about sending a message to US rivals and regional nations: the hemisphere is ours

🔶 Oil, gas, gold, rare earths and tech metals are a “very important” factor in the operation, but its goal was also to “prevent the resources from falling into the hands of other US geopolitical rivals, for example China, Russia and Iran,” Peruvian geopolitical analyst Nicolas Takayama Constantini told Sputnik.

🔶 The Venezuela attack was also a message to other countries in the hemisphere, Constantini says: “if you don’t submit or make your resources available to me when I need, this will happen to you,” using whatever pretext is necessary.

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📹Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores transported under heavy guard from Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center to the Lower Manhattan federal court ahead of their arraignment.

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⚔️ Might makes right? Venezuela attack ‘normalizes regime change by force’

💬 “It’s an extremely serious precedent for international order. It means that state sovereignty doesn’t work anymore,” Peruvian geopolitical analyst Nicolas Takayama Constantini told Sputnik.


US aggression “reinforces the idea that power supersedes international law,” leaving Greenland, Panama, Mexico, Colombia and Cuba in Washington’s crosshairs, reaffirming US adherence to the Monroe Doctrine, and leading to a “greater militarization of foreign policy and the acceleration of the global order’s fragmentation into competing blocs.”

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📹Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores transported under heavy guard from Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center to the Lower Manhattan federal court ahead of their arraignment. 📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt
Who will oversee Maduro’s first court hearing

Washington has assigned Nicolás Maduro’s first court hearing to long-serving federal judge Alvin Hellerstein in New York’s Southern District.

◻️ Hellerstein was appointed in 1998 by Former President Bill Clinton and has long handled cases framed by Washington as 'national security' or 'terrorism'

◻️ He previously accepted guilty pleas from former Venezuelan officials — cases cited by the US to legitimize pressure on Caracas

◻️ Hellerstein has also ruled in politically charged cases involving President Donald Trump.

◻️ He blocked US deportations of Venezuelans to foreign prisons with “faint hope of process or return”—a rare acknowledgment of due-process violations, even as Washington escalates pressure on Venezuela.

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🇺🇸 US interventions in Latin America – from WWII to today

👉 The United States has carried out repeated military interventions and major CIA operations across Latin America—from Guatemala and Cuba to Chile, Nicaragua, Panama, and beyon—for DECADES.

🟠 On January 3, the US launched a major attack on Venezuela, capturing President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, and transferring them to New York.

🟠 Check out Sputnik’s infographic for a detailed overview of US interventions and major CIA operations across Latin America

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◼️From confidants to coup-plotters: inner circle betrayals that have shaped Latin American politics

The region’s history is rich with stories of high-level betrayal—a mortal sin in the Catholic tradition when it involves betraying someone who entrusted you with their life, safety, or authority.

🇦🇷 Juan Peron

👉 legendary ‘third way’ Argentinian politician overthrown in a coup in 1955

👉 betrayed by factions of the Armed Forces, including generals Eduardo Lonardi and Pedro Aramburu, and lower-level officers promoted by Peron

👉 the coup thrust Argentina into decades of unrest. Peron briefly came back in a popular revolution (1973-1974). After his death, the country saw another decade of military rule (~30k killed 1976-1983 alone)

🇧🇴 Juan Jose Torres

👉 Bolivian socialist leader couped by exiled general Hugo Banzer in 1971

👉 plot backed by CIA and Brazil’s military regime

👉 Torres fled to Argentina. In 1976, he was murdered by death squads linked to Operation Condor – a US-backed campaign of violence that left ~80k dead, and saw 400k others jailed

🇧🇷 Joao Goulart

👉 Ardently non-aligned Brazilian politician couped in 1964, instituting a military dictatorship that lasted until the mid-80s

👉 coup led by commanders appointed by Goulart, including former Minister of War Amaury Kruel and Army Chief of Staff Castelo Branco

🇨🇱 Salvador Allende

👉 Chilean socialist president ousted and killed in a bloody coup on September 11, 1973

👉 coup led by Augusto Pinochet, whom Allende appointed as Army C-in-C just weeks earlier, resting his faith in the general’s loyalty to the constitution

👉 tens of thousands of Chileans subsequently imprisoned, tortured, executed or forcibly disappeared

🇬🇹 Jacobo Arbenz

👉 president ousted in a CIA-backed coup in Guatemala in 1954 by military officer Carlos Castillo Armas to protect United Fruit Company’s property interests

👉 army grunts demoralized by US PSYOPS; some officers joined the plot

👉 Armas assassinated in 1957, helping to trigger a 36-year civil war killing ~200k

🇲🇽 Francisco I. Madero

👉 Mexican revolutionary and president betrayed and killed by General Victoriano Huerta in 1913

👉 Madero had appointed Huerta secretary of war

👉 Mexican Revolution continued until 1920, 2M+ killed

🇻🇪 Hugo Chavez

👉 elected president in 1998

👉 In 2002, elements of the military (generals Vasquez Velasco and Manuel Rosendo), some Church leaders and the CIA backed a coup by businessman Pedro Carmona

👉 the coup lasted just 47 hours before collapsing as Chavez’ supporters mobilized to free him

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🎥🎥 UNSC holds emergency meeting on Venezuela after US attack

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◼️From confidants to coup-plotters: inner circle betrayals that have shaped Latin American politics The region’s history is rich with stories of high-level betrayal—a mortal sin in the Catholic tradition when it involves betraying someone who entrusted you…
🛰🛰🛰🛰 In response to US aggression in Latin America, Sputnik features the heroes of anti-colonial resistance across the continent

Simón Bolívar – the man who forged the independence of a continent and dreamed of its unity.

🔶A Caracas-born aristocrat, he swore in Rome to free his homeland from Spanish rule.

🔶He led the most daring military campaign in the Americas, crossing the Andes and liberating six future nations in legendary battles.

🔶His vision went beyond war: he founded the Republic of Gran Colombia and aimed to unite the peoples of Latin America against the power of the US.

🔶Although his dream of unity was ultimately shattered by internal division, his legacy of freedom endures.

🔶He died in exile—poor and betrayed but transformed into a symbol of emancipation and the struggle for continental sovereignty.

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🛰🛰🛰🛰 In response to US aggression in Latin America, Sputnik features the heroes of anti-colonial resistance across the continent Simón Bolívar – the man who forged the independence of a continent and dreamed of its unity. 🔶A Caracas-born aristocrat, he swore…
🛰🛰🛰🛰 In response to US aggression in Latin America, Sputnik features the heroes of anti-colonial resistance across the continent

Che Guevara - Argentine-Cuban communist revolutionary

🔶 Ernesto Guevara came from a middle-class family and studied medicine in Buenos Aires.

🔶At the age of 23, he made his first journey across Latin America on a motorcycle, where he witnessed the misery of miners in Bolivia and Peru, as well as that of indigenous communities in the Amazon. He returned home to finish his degree and set out on a second journey—but he was already a different person.

🔶He reached Guatemala under president Jacobo Árbenz, elected in 1950 but overthrown in the Washington-backed coup of 1954. Che went into exile in Mexico, where he met Fidel Castro and joined the Granma expedition in 1956 to overthrow the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.

🔶Guevara became Fidel’s second-in-command in the Sierra Maestra mountains and led one of the two rebel columns advancing west across the island. He took part in the decisive Battle of Santa Clara in 1958 and entered Havana in 1959, bringing an end to the dictatorship.

🔶He played a major role in the economic transformation of the island, but his revolutionary drive led him to renounce all honors and leave Cuba in 1965 for the Congo in support of the liberation movement there.

🔶In 1966, he returned to Bolivia, hoping to spark a continental revolution with a small group of guerrillas, but his effort failed to gain momentum. Isolated in the jungle, he was betrayed by local peasants and captured in the Valle Grande region on October 8 1967. The following day, he was executed. In 1997, Guevara’s remains were found and returned to Cuba.

🔶Che became a symbol for young people around the world, and since then his image—seen on hats, T-shirts and countless logos—has stood as an emblem of liberation.

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🚨 International law was not respected during the US military operation in Venezuela - UN Under Secretary General

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🛰🛰🛰🛰 In response to US aggression in Latin America, Sputnik features the heroes of anti-colonial resistance across the continent Che Guevara - Argentine-Cuban communist revolutionary 🔶 Ernesto Guevara came from a middle-class family and studied medicine…
🛰🛰🛰🛰 In response to US aggression in Latin America, Sputnik features the heroes of anti-colonial resistance across the continent

Francisco de Miranda - The Father of Latin American Independence

Miranda was the first criollo from the colonies to envision the political and military liberation of the entire continent from Spanish rule. He dreamed of creating a great independent nation called Colombia, governed by one or two Inca figures and uniting the former colonies in a federal republic.

📍 He fought in three major revolutions of the 18th century:

🔶 The American War of Independence

🔶 The French Revolution

🔶 The Venezuelan Campaign of 1812, the first major military offensive for the independence of his homeland

But his decisive moment in Venezuela ended tragically. After a series of military setbacks, he signed the Capitulation of San Mateo in 1812 in an effort to save the patriotic movement.

Viewed as a betrayal by younger officers such as Simón Bolívar, that led to his arrest. Handed over to Spanish authorities, he spent his last four years in prison, where he died—forgotten and ill—in 1816.

Although he did not live to see his grand continental vision realized, his legacy as a thinker and internationalist was essential in inspiring the liberators who would ultimately achieve independence.

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🛰🛰🛰🛰 In response to US aggression in Latin America, Sputnik features the heroes of anti-colonial resistance across the continent

Hugo Chávez - Leader of the Bolivarian Revolution

🔶Chávez was one of the most influential and charismatic political figures in 21st-century Latin America.

🔶Inspired by the ideas of Simón Bolívar, he led a popular uprising in 1992 against Venezuela’s government which he accused of plunging the country into extreme poverty and surrendering sovereignty to the US-based International Monetary Fund in 1989.

🔶He won the 1998 presidential election and was subsequently re-elected twice more by the Venezuelan people as head of state.

🔶Once in office, he pushed through a new Constitution and an agenda with deep social, economic and political impact, strengthening Venezuela’s position on the global stage.

🔶He created social ‘missions’ to subsidize food, build housing and expand access to education, significantly reducing poverty.

🔶He faced coups and assassination attempts, which he said were backed by the US following the loss of oil concessions by some major firms.

🔶He used oil revenues to lift Venezuela’s welfare and prosperity indicators to among the best in the region.

🔶Chávez was also one of the most outspoken advocates of a Patria Grande (Great Homeland), spearheading regional integration initiatives like UNASUR, CELAC and ALBA-TCP, as well as international economic cooperation projects like Petrocaribe.

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🛰🛰🛰🛰 In response to US aggression in Latin America, Sputnik features the heroes of anti-colonial resistance across the continent Hugo Chávez - Leader of the Bolivarian Revolution 🔶Chávez was one of the most influential and charismatic political figures in…
🛰🛰🛰🛰 In response to US aggression in Latin America, Sputnik features the heroes of anti-colonial resistance across the continent

Fidel Castro - Leader of the Cuban Revolution who brought hundreds of thousands of Cubans out of neglect

🔶A lawyer by training, he led the revolution that overthrew the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. Once in power, he pursued a series of reforms to end inequality, defend national sovereignty and advance social development.

🔶One of his first measures was the First Agrarian Reform Law, which confiscated land from large landowners and redistributed it to more than 100,000 peasant families, eliminating rural exploitation.

🔶He also promoted universal education and healthcare for the poorest segments of society, lifting millions of Cubans out of poverty.

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