Thursday, January 8, 2026

How Machado Lost Her Chance to Lead Venezuela; The New York Times, January 8, 2026

Francisco Rodríguez, The New York Times; How Machado Lost Her Chance to Lead Venezuela


[Kip Currier: The excerpt below, from this trenchant New York Times piece on Trump's intentions for Venezuela, uncovers the Mafia-esque corruption and transactional foreign policy that epitomizes Trump 2.0.]


[Excerpt]

"When the Trump administration made the decision to carry out a surgical operation to extract Mr. Maduro instead of occupying the country, it also chose, at least in the short term, to work with a state structure designed and run by supporters of Mr. Maduro and his predecessor Hugo Chávez. Ms. Machado, who describes that structure as a mafia, is simply not a figure who can coexist with those institutions."

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