Diosdado Cabello: "They were only going to take President Maduro away, but his wife Cilia stood firm and said: 'If you're going to take him away, you have to take me too'."

⚠️🚨BREAKING — Delcy Rodríguez has just dismissed Javier Marcano Tábata, Commander of the Presidential Honor Guard and Director of Military Counterintelligence (DGCIM).

He was one of the high-ranking officials in charge of Maduro's security.

Other reports affirm he was arrested. Although is not confirmed, it's a possible scenario.

https://x.com/i/status/2008737314865115377

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- Since Maduro's capture, the Venezuelan stock exchange IBC Index has surged 74.71% in just 2 trading sessions and up is 156% in the last 30 days.

The Venezuelan IBC index tracks the top 15 most liquid and capitalized stocks in the Caracas Stock Exchange.

⚠️🇻🇪 Main Admin here: 02:32 AM in the local hour in Venezuela.

PNB Contact call me while I was sleepin. Colectivos are being deployed in several parts of Falcón and Lara state.

It's funny that those paramilitary forced are being deployed in Lara state considering that in the coming days, there will be the celebration and veneration of the Divina Pastora.

One of the largest pilgrimages in the Catholic world on a global scale.

⚠️🇻🇪 Unofficial:

Checkpoints from the chavista regime in the Lara-Zulia highway

🇮🇹Left wing party Potere al Popolo in Italy:

China accuses the United States of intimidating Venezuela over its economic alliances https://bit.ly/4aPA2uk

🇺🇸🇻🇪 U.S. Energy Secretary says he is "working directly in cooperation with the regime" to execute the the plan to turn over up to 50 million barrels of sanctioned oil to the U.S., "We're going to get that crude moving again and sell it just like we did in our businesses."

🇺🇸🇻🇪 Pete Hegseth

"The blockade of chavista regime oil sanctioned is still in full force anywhere in the world".

ABC: Trump administration intends to oversee the sale of Venezuela's oil indefinitely

⚠️🇻🇪🇷🇺 Statement of the Russian Ministry of Transport on the seizure of the tanker "Mariner" in the Atlantic:

"On December 24, 2025, the vessel "Mariner" received a temporary permit to sail under the state flag of the Russian Federation, issued in accordance with Russian legislation and international law.

Today, around 15 o'clock Moscow time, in the open sea outside the territorial waters of any state, US naval forces boarded the vessel and communication with it was lost.

In accordance with the norms of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 1982, in high seas, a regime of freedom of navigation applies and no state has the right to use force against vessels duly registered in the jurisdictions of other states."

Whale Hunting: Venezuela Allegedly Has a Bitcoin Reserve of 600,000

https://www.criptonoticias.com/mercados/whale-hunting-venezuela-reserva-600000-bitcoin/

This investigative outlet (CriptoNoticias) reports that the Venezuelan government has accumulated $60 billion in BTC and USDT since 2018.

🤷🏻‍♂️To put you in perspective how big this could be, the ambitious project of Tocoma Dam Chávez promised to be completed in 2012 (before sanctions) had budget of $9,32 Billion, which "no one knows" what happened because they never started and the budget was approved.

So with the Bitcoin reserve, we could have 5 new dams to end the energy shortage we have since I was a kid.