The Venezuela Drama Thriller.

Response to a Facebook post. 

<>Venezuela, clearly not a U.S. ally, offers alternative transit routes for drug cartel shipments–after the usual route at Darien Pass and Rio Grande (and Gulf of Mexico) are now blocked by both Mexican and U.S.  troops. I believe that. 

       Venezuela's territory includes major bodies of water such as the Orinoco River, Lake Maracaibo, the Gulf of Venezuela, and access to the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It also contains numerous smaller rivers, lakes, and islands, including Laguna de la Restinga, Laguna de Mucubaji, and the Apure and Arauca rivers. 

       Meanwhile, cartel hook-ups always happen. Not so hard to believe this: Mexican and Colombian drug cartels “arrangement” with Venezuela's Cartel De Los Soles ("cartel of the suns") and Tren de Aragua. ELN and FARC remnants took over the vacuum that Medellin (Escobar) and the Cali (Rodriguez Orejuela bros) cartels in Colombia as well and now they collectively ply the route on Venezuela/Colombia pass. Eastern European human traffickers and the Asian Triad hooked up as well. 

       Fact: The U.S. is the undisputed top destination for drug contraband and smuggled human market in the world. <>If the U.S. or President Trump wants to “regime-change” (verb) Nicolas Maduro or Venezuela, he could have done it in 2019. Why didn't he? Nic agreed to let U.S. oil refineries and oil companies back in after the Chavez/Maduro tandem kicked them out (the last that was sent out was Helmerich & Payne around 2010). And so Chevron is back in Caracas as Valero and Citgo's shipment partnership with the US was restored. 

       <>The other important matter: China is Venezuela's top oil buyer. Ergo, Mr Trump's first trade pact with China took place in 2020. Current life: 2025. Trump's trade talks with China is doing fine so far as POTUS relaxed tariffs and buys Chinese rare earths as China did the same with tariffs and resumes buying U.S. soybeans + there is that Nvidia silicon deal with China, which the U.S. per Trump's brokering gets a cut (from Nvidia profit). And after The D shook hands with Japan, SoftBank and Nvidia talked business. 

       Ergo: Donald Trump's trade playbook will suffer if he negates Venezuela's oil as he lures FDIs to the US. Regardless of the fact that the U.S. is the world’s top oil producer, Trump needs more oil for obvious reasons. But he is also intent on weeding cartel power in America. Note that cartels took advantage of the laxity in border controls in the Biden years (record number of illegal crossings in 4 years, some instances, 4,000 to 6,000 a day!) No way these massive breaches would happen without cartel facilitation and narcopolitics in Mexico (before Claudia Sheinbaum sat). Also, Biden abolished the US/Mexico et al anti-smuggling coop Merida Initiative in 2021. Hey, cartels operate like how a corporate giant does. 

       <>The media isn't giving the people the lowdown for obvious reasons. 🇺🇸☮️🇻🇪

ALL ABOUT ZOHRAN.

From my Facebook Page. 

ZOHRAN Mamdani’s win as New York City Mayor is a no-brainer. His opposition is very weak. Voters had to pin hopes on an idealistic newbie over a disgraced ex-Governor, Andrew Cuomo. You see, even if the incumbent Eric Adams, another disgraced Dem, decided to try another run, he’d surely lose even to The Penguin. Now NYC faces an intriguing (political) coexistence. The Big Apple is home to the world’s most number of billionaires, who of course “controls” the here and there. With Zohran’s overreaching socialist ruminations? Let’s see. 

       How’d Z wade in and around Gotham City’s power brokers and power movers? The Jewish. NY receives a Top 3 federal budget, so let’s see how New Yorker Donald Trump (who endorsed Mr Cuomo as Independent) responds. Also, an effective anti-crime playbook is a pertinent work-sheet in the city, and current police chief Jessica Tisch is doing fine, so far. Jessica of the powerful Tisch, the Jewish family that is NYU Tisch School of the Arts? Let’s see.     

       Mr M’s positions reflect many of Bernie Sanders' socialist ideals but Bern is Old Left, more into the gut’s woes --compared with Zohran’s New Left's high-horse purity. So it’d be so interesting how'd the new Mayor run the roost as he butts heads with those who essentially light up the Big Apple as the top haven for global investors. How would the scandalously wealthy overlords coexist with the ideologically overreaching dreamer? That answer to imbalance: Batman. 

       My analogy: When the popular "sociopolitical hallucination" called Occupy Wall Street (2011) "occupied" a park owned by the wealthy and allowed to stay and hold “theaters of the spaced-out” as they dined quarterpounders, checked emails and posted stuff, called mom and dad for money, used the bathroom of McDonald's across the street. The 1 Percenter eatery opened 24 hours as directed by the super rich Mayor (Mike Bloomberg). So as summer warm ended and cold ensued as Fall arrived, the fiesta was over. Occupiers went home as undocumented migrants cleaned the mess at Zuccotti Park. Get my drift? 🏛🗽🏛