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
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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
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buildup for months. 15,000 troops. The USS Gerald Ford, the largest aircraft
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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controlled the military. He still controlled the police. He still controlled the guns. He thought that
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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
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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
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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
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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
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shaking, demanding proof of life. We do not know the whereabouts of President
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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
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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
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filed it in March 2020, accusing Maduro and 15 other Venezuelan officials of
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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
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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
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called an armed act of aggression. Iran declared it a flagrant violation of
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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
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region, ordered troops to the Venezuelan border and called for an emergency UN
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Security Council meeting. He called the American action an assault on the
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sovereignty of Latin America. But other reactions were very different.
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Argentine President Javier Mille praised the operation. Venezuelan exiles in
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Miami flooded into the streets crying and embracing. Maria Corina Machado, the
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Nobel Peace Prize laurate who had spent a year in hiding, issued a statement thanking President Trump for his
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decisive support. Back in Venezuela, the situation remained fluid. The military
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high command had not yet made its allegiances clear. Armed civilians,
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members of pro-govern militias called collectivos, patrolled the streets of
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Caracus. No one knew what would happen next. But one thing was certain. The
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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
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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
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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
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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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