#gambling allegedly won Master Sgt. #Gannon Ken Van Dyke US$400k for leaking the raid on #Venezuela to kidnap Nicolas #Maduro, but he's been arrested and an indictment was unsealed today. “The Commodity Futures Trading Commission [#CFTC] filed a related complaint against Van Dyke on Thursday, seeking restitution, disgorgement and civil monetary penalties.” #Polymarket’s stance has changed from “super cool (...) creates this financial incentive for people to go and divulge the information to the market” in November to “When we identified a user trading on classified government information, we referred the matter to the DOJ & cooperated with their investigation. Insider trading has no place on Polymarket. Today’s arrest is proof the system works.” #prediction-markets #news #USA #politics
on 02026-04-23“Lenore Burnley, the mother of Chad Joseph (26), and Sallycar Korasingh, the sister of Rishi Samaroo (41), are the plaintiffs in the case.
Their court papers allege violations of the Death on the High Seas Act, a 1920 law that makes the U.S. government liable if its agents engage in negligence that results in wrongful death more than 3 miles off American shores. A second claim alleges violations of the Alien Tort Statute, which allows foreign citizens to sue over human rights violations such as deaths that occurred outside an armed conflict, with no judicial process.” Two fishermen doing farm work in #Venezuela with no ties to the drug trade. #human-rights #USA
on 02026-04-03archive of <https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/us/politics/cyberattack-venezuela-military.html>: #news about the #USA breaking #Venezuela’s computer #security to induce power outages and disable radar. Probably.
on 02026-01-16#Polymarket #prediction-markets leaked the #USA kidnapping of #Maduro (president of #Venezuela) hours before it happened. #news #history
on 02026-01-15archive of <https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/01/04/an-american-oil-empire-is-a-deeply-flawed-idea> on the flaws in #Trump’s plans to take #Venezuela’s #oil for the #USA. #politics
on 02026-01-11“The tanker, which transported oil from #Venezuela and Iran, has been sanctioned by the U.S. for years “due to its involvement in an illicit oil shipping network supporting foreign terrorist organizations,” Bondi wrote on X.” #USA #politics
on 02025-12-11#USA about to invade #Venezuela with its aircraft carrier. #politics
on 02025-11-11Hugo #Chávez Frias book review. #Venezuela #politics #history
on 02025-10-11#Trump spox Karoline Leavitt refuses to predict whether #Trump will invade #Venezuela. #USA #politics #news
on 02025-08-29#news broadcast from Russian propaganda outlet #WION on #Maduro declaring his defiance of invasion. Mostly stock footage, talking head filler, and CGI. #Trump says it’s not an invasion, just an anti-drug-trafficking operation. Is #Venezuela the Ukraine of #USA? #politics
on 02025-08-29#news #video from #Fox saying #Trump is more or less invading #Venezuela. #USA #politics
on 02025-08-27#news current state of #Trump deportation of Kilmar Armando #Abrego García, who is not from #Venezuela, to #El-Salvador #CECOT #deportations #human-rights
on 02025-04-17#news #video by Joe #Rogan condemning #Trump for sending innocent people, like Maryland father Kilmar Armando #Abrego García (whose 5-year-old US-citizen son is autistic) who fled El Salvador in 02011, and gay makeup artist Andre José Hernandez Romero from #Venezuela, to #El-Salvador in #deportations to #CECOT
on 02025-04-01this singer from #Venezuela has a YouTube channel; he’s one of the victims of #Trump #deportations to #CECOT in #El-Salvador because he has tattoos. #politics #human-rights
on 02025-03-28MSNBC relays Mother Jones’s #journalism on the tattoo-based #Trump #deportations #news to #CECOT in #El-Salvador for people from #Venezuela #politics #human-rights
on 02025-03-28#news on #Trump #deportations to #CECOT in #El-Salvador: immigrants from #Venezuela get snatched off the street because they have tattoos, for example, an #autism awareness tattoo. Apparently all of the families whose members have been disappeared report that they are being held incommunicado and that they have tattoos. #politics #human-rights
on 02025-03-28#video #news: #Trump threatens a 25% “secondary tariff” on any country that buys oil or gas from #Venezuela starting April 2; oil is 80% of its exports and 17% of GDP. #USA #politics
on 02025-03-26#news #video on Argentine policeman #Nahuel-Gallo being imprisoned in #Venezuela when he tried to visit his wife and child, who live there with her family; in response, Patricia Bullrich (the minister of security of #Argentina) called Diosdado Cabello (the Venezuelan minister of the interior) “el lacayo de una dictadura criminal y cobarde. (...) La argentina no se somete a tiranos.” So it’s an international incident. #politics
on 02024-12-17#USA NSA helped to track down certain #Bitcoin users, in an 02013 project called Oakstar, to interdict funding for terrorism (02018 news item). Also #Trump forbade US citizens to buy #Venezuela’s #Petro #CBDC. #history #politics
on 02024-07-28#ZCash, #Ethereum, (and #Bitcoin?) in #Venezuela. #politics
on 02017-08-06#Trump in the #USA is like Hugo #Chávez Frias in #Venezuela. #politics #history
on 02017-05-19hunger in #Venezuela
on 02017-05-03#Venezuela is abrogating its constitution by suspending a presidential recall vote after courts in five states found fraud in the petition drive; its parliament is furious, but powerless
on 02016-10-23#Venezuela has instituted national service (#slavery, if you consider their government illegitimate, or consider that obligatory national service is an illegitimate thing for a government to require) to draft corvée labor to work the fields for 60 days per person, in order to try to forestall the coming famine.
on 02016-08-01