Five days after the Delta Force assault and capture of Nicolas Maduro, many unknowns remain about what happened there and what will happen in Venezuela from now on. However, there are indications that someone very powerful within the Chavista apparatus contributed to facilitating the operation ordered by Trump. They knew where the Venezuelan president was, there was not the slightest military reaction to the attack and Washington sidelined Corina Machado even though it seemed to agree with Delcy Rodríguez to lead a political transition that was still too uncertain. A strategy concerted by the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, in which they sold Maduro and where we talked more about oil than democracy.
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