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The Rise and Fall of Nicolás Maduro: Full Documentary 2026 https://youtu.be/Omf3mtmngmw?si=TE4mW3sOQ0StWLCL  

The Raid: Inside the Delta Force operation at Miraflores. The Buildup: The USS Gerald R. Ford and the naval blockade.

The History: How Maduro went from union leader to dictator. 

The Economy: How Venezuela lost 73% of its GDP.

The Future: What happens next for Venezuela and the US?

 
CHAPTERS: 0:00 The 2:00 AM Raid 02:15 The Bus Driver Who Became President 08:40 The Havana Connection (Cuba) 14:20 Hyperinflation & The $2 Wage 21:00 The 2024 Election Fraud 26:30 Trump’s Return & The Naval Blockade 31:15 The Capture & Aftermath

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It's 2:17 a.m. January 3rd, 2026.
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You're asleep in the presidential palace, the meet of Flores, that white
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fortress in the heart of Karakas, where you've ruled for 13 years. Where Hugo
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Chavez once blessed you as his successor. where you've survived assassination attempts, coup plots, and
0:25
the largest military buildup your continent has seen since Panama.
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Then the sky splits open. The first explosion rocks you awake, then another,
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then seven more. Through the window, tracers arc across the darkness, the
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unmistakable thump of helicopter rotors. Low, fast, coming closer. Your guards
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are shouting. Your wife, Celia, is pulling at your arm. But you already know. You've watched the American naval
1:01
buildup for months. 15,000 troops. The USS Gerald Ford, the largest aircraft
1:09
carrier ever built, circling through waters like a shark. You thought it was
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theater. You danced to rallies. You brandished a sword and swore to defend
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every inch of Venezuelan soil. Two days ago, you told reporters you were open to
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negotiating. You were wrong. Within the hour, Delta
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Force operatives, the most elite special operations unit in the American military, will breach your location. The
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CIA has been tracking you for weeks. They know exactly where you sleep. By
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dawn, you and Celia will be shackled in the cargo hold of an aircraft flying
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toward American soil. The man who ruled Venezuela will face a courtroom in
1:58
Manhattan, narot terrorism conspiracy, cocaine importation, possession of machine guns,
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crimes against the United States. The charges carry a sentence measured in
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lifetimes. This is the story of Nicolas Maduro, a
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bus driver who became one of the most wanted men on earth. And to understand
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how it ends here in chains over the Caribbean Sea, we have to go back to
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where it began. To a workingass street in Karakas, to a boy who never finished
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high school, to the moment he made a choice that would doom a nation.
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Before we go any further, let me tell you something most people get wrong about Maduro. They think he's stupid.
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They mock his malipropisms. They laugh when he confuses gremlin with Grinch.
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They call his bizarre statements like claiming Hugo Chavez appeared to him as a small bird, the ravings of a fool. But
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here's the thing, fools don't hold power for 13 years. They don't survive
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assassination attempts by drone. They don't outmaneuver the world's most powerful nations while their economy
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collapses around them. Maduro isn't stupid. He's something far more
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dangerous. He's a survivor. And his survival instincts were forged in places most
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people will never see. Nicholas Maduro Moros was born on
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November 23rd, 1962 in the workingclass neighborhood of
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Elvay on the western outskirts of Karakas. His father, Nicolas Maduro
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Garcia, was a union leader, a militant dreamer, his biographers would later
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call him, who died in a car accident when Maduro was 28. His mother, Teresa,
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was born in Kuka, a Colombian border town. This detail would haunt Maduro's
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political career. In Venezuela, only nativeborn citizens can become
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president. His opponents would spend decades questioning whether he was truly
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Venezuelan at all. Growing up on Cay 14, Maduro was the only boy among four
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siblings. He went to a public high school, Liso Jose Avalos, where he
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showed early aptitude for exactly one thing, organizing. He became president
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of the student union, not because he was the smartest, because he understood
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something about power that his classmates didn't. Power isn't about
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being right. It's about being present, about being useful, about making
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yourself indispensable to the people that matter. According to school
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records, Maduro never graduated. Some say he dropped out. Others say he simply
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stopped attending. Either way, while his classmates pursued universities and
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professional careers, Maduro chose a different path. He became a bus driver.
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Now, here's what most people miss about this detail. They treat it as a
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curiosity, the humble origins of a future dictator. But driving buses for
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the Caracas Metro wasn't just a job. It was an education.
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Because Caracas Metro had banned unions. And Maduro, the son of a union man,
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founded one. Anyway, think about what that takes. You're 23 years old. No
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degree, no connections, no protection, and you're organizing workers against a
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company that has explicitly forbidden exactly what you're doing. One wrong
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move and you lose your job, your income, your future. But Maduro didn't get
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caught, he got promoted within the underground labor movement, if not
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within the company. He developed a reputation as an effective organizer, a
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skilled negotiator, a man who could read a room and tell you exactly what
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everyone in it wanted. At 24, he received an invitation that would change
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everything. In 1986, Nicolas Maduro boarded a plane to
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Havana, Cuba. He had been selected to attend the Esqueella Nathaniel de
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Cuadros Julio Antonio Mayor, a training center for revolutionary candres run by
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the Union of Young Communists. For one year, Maduro would study under Pedro
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Mirrett Prietto, a senior member of the Plet Bureau who was close to Fidel
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Castro himself. Let me be clear about what this means. This wasn't a community
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college course. This wasn't political theory in an abstract sense. This was
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operational training. How to organize cells, how to infiltrate institutions,
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how to build parallel structures of power within existing governments, how
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to wait, sometimes for decades, for the right moment to strike. Some historians
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believe Maduro wasn't just a student in Havana. They believe he was recruited.
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According to Carlos Penoloza, a former Venezuelan army commander, Maduro was
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allegedly tasked by the Castro government to serve as a mole for Cuba's
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intelligence service, La Dereion deleensia. His mission, approach a young military
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officer named Hugo Chavez, who was showing signs of revolutionary sympathies. Whether this is true or
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conspiracy theory, one fact is undeniable. By the early 1990s, Maduro
8:06
had attached himself to the most consequential figure in Venezuelan history, and he would never let go.
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February 4th, 1992, Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Chavez led a
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military coup against President Carlos Andreas Perez. The coup failed. Chavez
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was captured. But in his surrender statement broadcast on national television, he uttered two words that
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would echo through Venezuelan history. Poor Aurora for now. Those two words
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transformed a failed rebel into a folk hero. Suddenly, Hugo Chavez was the most
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famous man in Venezuela. And Maduro saw an opportunity.
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While Chavez languished in prison, Majuro joined the campaign for his
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release. He worked alongside a young lawyer named Celia Flores, who was
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leading Chavez's legal defense. The two fell in love, a romance that would last
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three decades and create what many observers called a dual presidency.
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When Chavez was pardoned in 1994, Maduro was waiting. He became one of the
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founding members of the movement of the fifth republic, the political party that would carry Chavez to the presidency. He
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was useful. He was loyal. He was present. And Chavez noticed. Here's
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something you need to understand about their relationship. Chavez was a supernova. Charismatic, brilliant,
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overwhelming. He could speak for 6 hours on live television without notes. He
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could quote Simon Bolivar from memory. He made crowds weep with joy. Maduro was
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none of these things. He was awkward. His speeches rambled. He lacked the
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natural magnetism that drew millions to Chavez. But he had one quality that
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Chavez desperately needed. Absolute loyalty. In a movement full of rivals
10:16
and potential successes, men with military credentials, revolutionary
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credentials, intellectual credentials, Maduro was the one who would never
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betray. He was the dog who would guard the door. After Chavez won the 1998
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presidential election with 56% of the vote, Maduro rose through the ranks.
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Congressman, speaker of the National Assembly, Minister of Foreign Affairs for 7 years, the longest serving foreign
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minister in Chavez's government. But his most important job had no official
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title. He was the bridge to Cuba. The man who maintained the relationship
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between Karakas and Havana, the link that kept thousands of Cuban doctors
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flowing into Venezuelan barios and billions in Venezuelan oil flowing to
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the Cuban economy. When Chavez fell ill with cancer in 2011, it was Maduro who
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managed his treatment in Cuba, who controlled information about his condition, who stood beside him in his
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final public appearance and received his blessing as successor. My firm opinion,
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as clear as the full moon, irrevocable, absolute, total, is that you elect
11:36
Nicholas Majurro as president. Those were Hugo Chavez's final instructions to
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his nation. On March 5th, 2013, Chavez
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died of cardiac arrest and the bus driver became president.
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Now, here's where most analysis of Maduro goes wrong. People say he
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destroyed Venezuela. They blame him for the hyperinflation, the food shortages,
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the exodus of 8 million people. And they're not entirely wrong, but the
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collapse had already begun. Chavez had spent 14 years building an economic time
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bomb. He nationalized industries without compensation, often on live television,
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pointing at a building and declaring expropriacy. Venezuela's oil production, once among
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the highest in the world, declined from 3 million barrels per day to 2.3 million
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under his watch. He imposed price controls on thousands of goods, rice,
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chicken, soap, toilet paper. The controls were popular. Who doesn't want
12:48
cheaper food? But they were economic suicide. When the controlled price falls
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below the cost of production, producers stop producing, shelves empty, black
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markets flourish, and the poorest people, the ones the controls were meant to protect, suffer most. As long as oil
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prices stayed high, Chavez could paper over the cracks with cash. Venezuela was
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the Saudi Arabia of Latin America, sitting on the largest proven oil reserves on Earth. When oil hit $100 a
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barrel, petro dollars flooded in. Chavez spent them on everything. Social
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programs, foreign allies, subsidized goods for the poor. But he spent more
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than he had, much more. By 2013, when Majuro took office, Venezuela was
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running on fumes. Government spending had created massive deficits. The
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currency was already beginning its descent into worthlessness and the country had become catastrophically
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dependent on oil exports. 98% of export earnings came from petroleum. Then in
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2014, oil prices collapsed from $100 a barrel to $60, then $50, then $30, and
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Majuro made the choice that would destroy his country. Instead of cutting
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spending, he printed money, mountains of it. When the currency lost value, he
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printed more. When that currency lost value, he printed even more. The result
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was hyperinflation on a scale rarely seen in modern history. In 2014,
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Venezuela's inflation rate was 69%, the highest in the world, but
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survivable. In 2015, it hit 181%.
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In 2016, it exploded past 800%. By 2018, inflation exceeded 1.7
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million%. The Venezuelan Bolivar became worth less than the paper it was printed on. I want
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you to understand what this means in human terms. The minimum wage in
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Venezuela dropped from $360 per month in 2012 to less than $2 per
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month by 2019. People lost an average of 19 between
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2015 and 2016, not from dieting, but from starvation. Parents watched their
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children waste away because they couldn't afford food. Hospitals ran out
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of medicine. Surgeons operated without anesthesia because there was none to be
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had. By the end of the decade, the Venezuelan economy had contracted 73%
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from its peak. This was already the 15th largest economic crisis in modern
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history and the largest outside of war, revolution, or total state collapse. 8
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million Venezuelans fled the country, the largest refugee crisis in Latin
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America. They walked to Colombia. They crowded onto boats to the Caribbean
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islands. They scattered across South America looking for any country that would take them. And through it all,
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Maduro held on. Here's what you need to understand. The man who couldn't feed
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his people proved extraordinarily talented at one thing, staying alive.
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Let me give you the numbers. Between 2013 and 2020, the Majuro government
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claimed to have thwarted over a dozen coup attempts, assassination plots, and
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foreign invasions. Some were real. The 2018 drone attack where explosive laden
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drones detonated near Majuro during a military parade was captured on live
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television. His face went white with terror. Soldiers scattered. Chaos
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erupted. He survived. He always survived. How? First he controlled the
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military. Not through charisma. He had none, but through corruption. Under
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Maduro, generals became business partners. They controlled drug trafficking routes. They skimmed money
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from food import programs. They grew rich while their soldiers went hungry.
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But their fortunes depended on the regime's survival. If Maduro fell, they
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would face prosecution or worse. Second, he controlled the judges. His wife,
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Celia Flores, wasn't just first lady. She was what some analysts called the
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political brain of the regime. The woman who placed over 40 family members in key
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government positions, who controlled judicial appointments, who built a system where loyalty, not competence,
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determined who held power. Third, he learned to play great powers against
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each other. Russia provided weapons and military advisers. China provided loans,
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an estimated $60 billion over the years in exchange for oil. Iran provided
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diplomatic support and technical assistance. Turkey, in its quest for influence, became an unlikely ally. And
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fourth, perhaps most importantly, he understood the weakness of his opponents. The Venezuelan opposition was
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fractured. Its leaders disagreed on strategy. Some wanted negotiation. Some
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wanted confrontation. Some fled into exile. Some were thrown in prison. Every
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time a charismatic figure emerged. Leopoldo Lopez, Juan Guyaido, Maria
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Corina Machado, Majuro's security services found ways to sideline them.
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Arrests, disqualifications, travel bans, exile. In 2019, Juan Guyaido declared
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himself acting president, backed by the United States and dozens of other countries. For a moment, it seemed like
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the end. Crowds filled the streets. The military appeared to waver. Majuro held
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a rally the same day, and nothing happened. The soldiers stayed in their
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barracks. The regime held. Guyaido eventually fled to Miami. His revolution
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deflated. The world kept expecting Majuro to fall.
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He kept not falling until he made a mistake so brazen that even his survival
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skills couldn't save him. July 28th, 2024,
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Venezuela held a presidential election. On paper, it was supposed to be a moment
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of democratic renewal. In practice, it was one of the most blatant electoral
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frauds in modern Latin American history. Let me explain what happened because
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this is the event that set everything in motion. The opposition had finally
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unified behind a single candidate, Maria Corina Machado, a fiery right-wing
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politician whom some called Venezuela's Iron Lady. She was charismatic. She was fearless.
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And polling showed she would defeat Maduro by historic margins.
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So the regime banned her from running. They disqualified her on corruption charges. Charges that international
20:34
observers dismissed as politically motivated. When she tried to register a substitute candidate, Corina Yurus, the
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electoral commission blocked that registration, too. Finally, the opposition managed to register Edmundo
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Gonzalez, a 74year-old retired diplomat whom few Venezuelans had heard of. He
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wasn't a dynamic figure. He wasn't a revolutionary, but he was the only option left. The election proceeded.
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Venezuelans turned out in massive numbers despite government intimidation,
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despite armed thugs at polling stations, despite widespread reports of voter
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suppression. And here's what happened next. The opposition had prepared for fraud.
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Volunteers fanned out to 30,000 polling stations across the country. They
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collected printed tally sheets, official documents from voting machines that showed results at each location. They
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photographed them, digitized them, uploaded them to a central database. By
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election night, the opposition had obtained copies of more than 80% of all tally sheets in Venezuela. Their count
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showed Edmundo Gonzalez winning with approximately 67% of the vote. Maduro
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had received roughly 30%. It was a landslide.
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Then at midnight, the National Electoral Council controlled by Maduro Loyalists
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announced the official results. Maduro had won with 51.95%
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of the vote. Gonzalez had received 43.18%.
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The numbers didn't just contradict the opposition's count. They defied
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statistical probability. Mathematicians around the world pointed out that the official percentages were oddly round, a
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telltale sign of fabrication. Exit polls by Edison Research had shown
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Gonzalez winning by 34 points. The regime had simply invented the numbers.
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What followed was predictable. Protests erupted across Venezuela. The government
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responded with overwhelming force. According to the UN, at least 24 people
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were killed. More than 2,400 were arrested, the highest number of
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detentions in Venezuelan history. Gonzalez fled to Spain. Machado went
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into hiding, moving from safe house to safe house, one step ahead of security forces hunting her. She wouldn't appear
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in public for 11 months until December 2025 when she made a dramatic escape by
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boat to Kurissau to accept the Nobel Peace Prize that the world had awarded
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her for her courage. And Maduro, he was sworn in for a third term on January
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10th, 2025. Most of the world refused to recognize his government. The United States
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declared Edmundo Gonzalez the legitimate president of Venezuela. But Maduro still
23:47
controlled the military. He still controlled the police. He still controlled the guns. He thought that
23:55
would be enough. Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025 with unfinished business
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in Venezuela. During his first term, Trump had tried to remove Maduro through
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economic sanctions and diplomatic pressure. He had backed Juan Guyaido. He
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had frozen Venezuelan assets. He had even floated the possibility of military
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intervention. It hadn't worked. Maduro had outlasted him. This time would be
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different. Within months of taking office, Trump authorized a military operation that
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would escalate week by week, month by month, until it culminated in the most
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dramatic American action in Latin America since the invasion of Panama in
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1989. It started with the boats. In September
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2025, American forces began striking what they claimed were drug smuggling
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vessels in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific Ocean. The Pentagon released
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grainy footage showing speedboats exploding under missile strikes.
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Officials claimed the boats were carrying cocaine bound for American shores. By December, the strikes had
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destroyed more than 30 vessels and killed over a 100 people. Critics,
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including members of Congress, called it extrajudicial execution. The
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administration called it counter narcotics. But the real goal was
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something else entirely. White House Chief of Staff Susie Wilds
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said it out loud in an interview with Vanity Fair. Trump wants to keep on
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blowing boats up until Maduro cries uncle. The pressure intensified. The USS
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Gerald R. Ford, the world's largest aircraft carrier, sailed into the
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Caribbean with a full strike group. More than 15,000 American troops assembled in
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the region. Trump declared Venezuelan airspace closed in its entirety. Then
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came the blockade. Trump ordered the Navy to interdict Venezuelan oil
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tankers, even those not under formal sanctions. Venezuela's oil production,
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already crippled, dropped another 15% as storage facilities filled and exports
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ground to a halt. And then on December 24th, 2025, the CIA launched its first
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known attack on Venezuelan soil, a drone strike on a dock facility allegedly used
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by drug traffickers. Maduro responded with defiance. He held rallies. He
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brandished swords. He danced before cheering crowds. We do not want the
26:49
peace of slaves, he declared. But behind the bravado, something had shifted. The
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noose was tightening. His options were narrowing. And somewhere in Washington,
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decisions were being made that would end his presidency in chains.
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January 2nd, 2026. Maduro met with a delegation of Chinese
27:12
officials at the presidential palace. It was his last public appearance. State
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television showed him smiling, shaking hands, discussing cooperation.
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That night, he went to bed thinking he had survived another day, another week,
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another year. He was wrong. According to sources familiar with the operation,
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President Trump had authorized Maduro's capture several days earlier. CIA
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operatives had been tracking his movements for weeks. The location was confirmed. The Delta Force team was
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briefed. The strike began at approximately 200 a.m. local time.
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American aircraft flying from bases in Puerto Rico and from carrier decks in the Caribbean hit military installations
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across Venezuela. Fort Tuna, the largest military complex in Karacas, erupted in
28:06
flames. Lalota airport filled with smoke. Facilities in Miranda, Ara, and
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Laguayra were struck simultaneously. The attack lasted less than 30 minutes.
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But in that half hour, American special forces breached the presidential compound. By dawn, Maduro and Celia
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Flores were in American custody, flying toward an uncertain future.
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Venezuelan Vice President Deli Rodriguez appeared on state television, her voice
28:39
shaking, demanding proof of life. We do not know the whereabouts of President
28:44
Nicholas Maduro and First Lady Celia Flores, she said. The man who had ruled
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Venezuela for 13 years, who had survived coup attempts, drone attacks, economic
28:57
collapse, and international isolation, was gone. Captured in his sleep, flown
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out of his own country like cargo. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the
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charges hours after the capture. Naroterrorism conspiracy. Cocaine
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importation conspiracy. Possession of machine guns and destructive devices.
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Conspiracy to possess machine guns and destructive devices against the United
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States. The indictment wasn't new. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan had
29:31
filed it in March 2020, accusing Maduro and 15 other Venezuelan officials of
29:38
partnering with Colombian FARC rebels to flood the United States with cocaine.
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The reward for information leading to his capture had been $50 million.
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For four years, that indictment had been symbolic, a piece of paper with no
29:54
teeth. Maduro was untouchable, protected by his palace and his soldiers and his
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foreign allies. Now he would face trial in an American courtroom.
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The international reaction was immediate and divided. Russia condemned what it
30:13
called an armed act of aggression. Iran declared it a flagrant violation of
30:19
national sovereignty. China expressed deep concern. Colombia's president,
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Gustavo Pro, a leftist who had been one of Maduro's few remaining allies in the
30:30
region, ordered troops to the Venezuelan border and called for an emergency UN
30:36
Security Council meeting. He called the American action an assault on the
30:41
sovereignty of Latin America. But other reactions were very different.
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Argentine President Javier Mille praised the operation. Venezuelan exiles in
30:53
Miami flooded into the streets crying and embracing. Maria Corina Machado, the
30:59
Nobel Peace Prize laurate who had spent a year in hiding, issued a statement thanking President Trump for his
31:06
decisive support. Back in Venezuela, the situation remained fluid. The military
31:12
high command had not yet made its allegiances clear. Armed civilians,
31:18
members of pro-govern militias called collectivos, patrolled the streets of
31:23
Caracus. No one knew what would happen next. But one thing was certain. The
31:29
Maduro era was over. The bus driver who never graduated high school. The
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revolutionary cadre trained in Havana. The foreign minister who built alliances
31:41
with dictators and rogues across the globe. The president who danced while
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his people starved. He was now a prisoner.
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So what does Nicolas Maduro teach us? Perhaps this, that survival is not the
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same as success, that holding power is not the same as deserving it. That a man
32:07
can outlast his enemies for years, for decades while destroying everything he
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claims to protect. Maduro watched 8 million of his countrymen flee the
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nation he was supposed to serve. He watched children die from malnutrition
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in hospitals without medicine. He watched an economy that should have made Venezuela one of the richest countries
32:31
on earth collapse into hyperinflation and poverty. And he stayed. He held on.
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He survived until he didn't. In the end, the same qualities that kept him in
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power, his ruthlessness, his willingness to commit fraud, his alliance with drug
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traffickers and foreign autocrats, became the charges that will likely keep him in prison for the rest of his life.
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The man who claimed to speak for the poor became one of the most wanted criminals on earth. The revolutionary
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who promised to challenge American imperialism was captured by American soldiers in his own bed. The bus driver
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who rose higher than anyone could have imagined will now face judgment in a
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Manhattan courtroom. We tell stories about dictators because they reveal something uncomfortable
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about power itself. About how easy it is to justify atrocities when you believe
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you're serving a greater cause. About how institutions designed to protect the
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people can be twisted to serve one man's survival. Maduro called himself a
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socialist. He called himself a chveista. He called himself the defender of
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Venezuelan sovereignty. History will call him something else. And that story
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is just beginning. If this video helped you understand what just happened in
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work, how they rise, how they fall, and what they cost,  

https://energy.prayaspune.org/our-work/policy-regulatory-engagements/rp75of2025   MSEDCL seeks additional costs : (a) Rs. 55,600 crores in Capex, (b) Rs. 69,800 crores due to errors in MERC power procurement model (c) Rs. 3,272 crores due to errors in agricultural demand estimation methodology (d) Rs. 11,751 crores due  to dispensations approved by   Supreme Court, APTEL and MERC in various  orders. MSEDCL has also claimed erroneous classification of hotel industry and specification of time-of-day tariffs with clarifications on banking restrictions.  

https://api.sci.gov.in/supremecourt/2015/14553/14553_2015_6_1501_62958_Judgement_06-Aug-2025.pdf  

https://cercind.gov.in/2025/orders/38.pdf

https://aptel.gov.in/sites/default/files/2025-04/RP%201%20of%202025%20.pdf