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17.01.26 - 22:16
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Trump Admin Was In ′Discussions′ With Venezuelan Minister Months Before Raid (ZeroHedge)
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Trump Admin Was In 'Discussions' With Venezuelan Minister Months Before Raid
The White House was conducting back-channel communications with Venezuela's hardline interior minister Diosdado Cabello months before the US operation to seize President Nicolas Maduro, and has been in communication with him since then, according to Reuters, citing multiple government officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Cabello, who was Maduro's right hand and seen as Venezuela's second most powerful figure (and close aide of the late former President Hugo Chavez), was key to a 'smooth' regime change - as the 62-year-old had (and has) the power to turn the country's security services or militant ruling-party supporters he oversees to target the country's opposition. That security apparatus he controls has remained largely intact since the Jan. 3 US raid.
Cabello is named in the same U.S. drug-trafficking indictment that the Trump administration used as justification to arrest Maduro, ...
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16.01.26 - 15:36
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Trump Says ′Venezuela Leaker′ Jailed As Polymarket Accounts Go Quiet (ZeroHedge)
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Trump Says 'Venezuela Leaker' Jailed As Polymarket Accounts Go Quiet
Authored by Helen Partz via CoinTelegraph.com,
US President Donald Trump said the “leaker on Venezuela” has been jailed, a remark that has renewed scrutiny of prediction markets following a series of well-timed bets earlier this month.
“The leaker on Venezuela has been found and is in jail right now,” Trump said in the Oval Office on Wednesday, according to a video posted by The Wall Street Journal.
Although Trump did not mention prediction markets, blockchain analysts such as Lookonchain have speculated that the leaker may be linked to a cluster of Polymarket accounts that placed concentrated bets on Venezuela outcomes just hours before the news became public.
“We noticed that two of the three wallets that previously profited from betting on Venezuelan President Maduro being out of office have been inactive for 11 days,” Lookonchain wrote in an X post on Thursday.
Some accounts are still active with bets ...
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16.01.26 - 13:42
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Trump Gifted Nobel Peace Prize Medal from Venezuela′s Machado | The Pulse 1/16 (Bloomberg)
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"The Pulse With Francine Lacqua" is all about conversations with high profile guests in the beating heart of global business, economics, finance and politics. Based in London, we go wherever the story is, bringing you exclusive interviews and market-moving scoops.
Today's guests: Alex Brazier, BlackRock, Global Head of Investment & Portfolio Solutions; Laurel Rapp, Chatham House, US and North America Programme Director; Erwan Rambourg, HSBC, Global Head of Consumer and Retail Equity Research. (Source: Bloomberg)...
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