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Conspiracy theories: Why did Maduro fall so quickly?

Tuesday, January 6th 2026 - 10:30 UTC
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Rumors, speculation, and conspiracy theories of all kinds are surfacing about who betrayed former Venezuelan ruler Nicolás Maduro so that US troops could abduct him from Caracas and make him stand trial in New York. Read full article

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  • Brasileiro

    For me, Maduro is a living hero. And, most likely, he will return to Venezuela with the honors of a Head of State. That's my opinion.

    For the Brazilian government, which I firmly support, the power to dialogue with Maduro was lost when the agreement on the Electoral Records signed in the Grenadines was not fulfilled. And President Lula honors agreements, and those who don't suffer terrible consequences.

    I think all of this greatly influenced how everything happened. That's my opinion.

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  • Esteban Domingo Fernandez

    Why is he a hero Bras ? he wrecked the Venezuelans economy with his useless policies. he lost an election but refused to give up power, thats not freedom and democracy is it, he killed or jailed anyone who protested against him, millions fled the country because of him, he employed foreign Cubans to protect him because the vast majority of Venezuela hated him, your post is nonsense,

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  • Brasileiro

    He's my hero because, with all his flaws, he always sought a better Venezuela. In his own way, it's true. But, apart from Chavez, nobody was as much in favor of their own country as he was.

    I don't expect your understanding. Ideology, sometimes, goes against reason.

    What Chavez and Maduro lacked was international support. Something Lula has in abundance. Brazil does things that would terrify Western interests.

    But it engages with the world. The Spanish world still carries the DNA of absolutism.

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  • Esteban Domingo Fernandez

    He has not put Venezuela first or tried to make the peoples life better, he has milked it dry with his corruption stealing millions and surrounded himself with other evil people. killing his own citizens because they disagree with him.

    i dont expect you to understand decency. morals, justice and rule of law, everything Maduro did was for Maduro.

    What Chavez and Maduro did do was let power go to the head and didnt want to give it up, its sod all to do with western interests, you are obsessed with the word west which Brazil is a part of whether you like it or not,

    What Trump did was illegal and wrong, 2 wrongs dont make a right, but the new President now has a choice either govern the country correctly or continue down the path of corruption, the sooner a free and fair election can be held the better.
    Most certainly it didnt engage the world but isolated itself like all dictatorship countries do,

    your post is 100% false,

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  • Brasileiro

    Ideology is never false. You are not false. There are no ghosts here.

    Here is a way to see a world where there is no poverty, hunger, war, rich, or poor.

    Here is a world you will die without knowing. And this world is vast. This world holds all the riches of the world that people like you hope to have.

    You will not have them!

    As long as ideas like those of Chavez and Maduro exist, they can kill millions of people, but they will not kill what we want to be.

    You can kill all the swallows in the world and still not prevent the arrival of summer!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_O3DEtuj34&list=FLmXPTu1f8AdGlizWNiASx2A&index=23

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  • Esteban Domingo Fernandez

    Ideology is most certainly false when politicians twist it to suit their own benefit,
    exactly what Maduro and his cronies did,

    yes it would be great if their where no poor people, but unfortunately thats not how the world works, communism put millions and millions in poverty, even more than capitalism. USSR and China proved that, that is why China moved to a capitalist economy,

    who will not have them ? the Venezuelan people didnt have them because a corrupt dictator stole and kept things for himself and his cronies,

    Kill what we want to be, nobody wants to be ruled by a dictator or a communist regime, you are taking nonsense again,

    you can kill all the swallows but it does not prevent the arrival of summer ? just a silly comment that means nothing, kill all the swallows and you have no swallows.

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  • Brasileiro

    Swallows, migration, temperature, wind... capisce?

    Grande Think!

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  • Esteban Domingo Fernandez

    of course i know what you meant, but its sod all to do with the discussion,

    we have a saying, if you cant say something sensible then dont say anything at all., we also have saying if the shoe fits,

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  • imoyaro

    Brasso admires Maduro due to his patent gifts of prestidigitation, and like his “hero,” I do wish that he too would ”disappear'...

    https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2024/08/30/can-we-finally-talk-about-maduros-desaparecidos/

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  • Brasileiro

    I admire Maduro because no Miami idiot will ever govern Venezuela.

    Idiot!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgWO8vk6xqo

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