You coulda knocked your Eyewitness over with a feather!! Trump and Mad Maduro making goo-goo eyes at each other?? Well, at least making coo-coo noises at each other! A bromance in the making?? It’s like one of those formulaic Rom-Coms, where the protagonists start off with sparks flying but, as time moves on, they gradually begin to see they ain’t so different after all – and eventually fall into a groove!!
In this case, during their first interactions of Trump I – between 2016 and 2020 – the sparks certainly flew like a blacksmith creating a sword with his hammer pounding a red-hot iron rod!! That was Trump hurling sanctions on Venezuelan people (Mad Maduro and his officials), places (any country trading with Venezuela) and things (Venezuelan oil) – even as he poured a billion US$ into the pockets of the Venezuelan opposition under a fella named Guaido! Mad Maduro thought he had the last laugh when he was still ruling Venezuela when Trump was voted out in 2020!!
By the beginning of Trump II, Sleepy Joe had undermined much of Trump I’s efforts between 2020 and 2025. And if not quite turning the sword into a ploughshare, had certainly dulled it by removing the most critical sanction of them all – allowing Chevron to begin pumping and shipping 220,000 barrels per day of Venezuelan oil to the US of A!! Trump II started out by putting together a solid anti-Maduro team around himself, and talking tough – as he did with even friends and allies – about shipping back their illegal citizens.
But the tip-off that he might’ve had a change of heart came when he sent Richard Grenell, his trusted personal special envoy to trouble spots – not his hard-liner Secty of State Rubio – to have a heart-to-heart with Mad Maduro in Venezuela!! Now, whatever message Trump’s personal envoy took, it had to’ve been very seductive words. Cause he not only secured the release of six Americans who’d been accused of being an assassination team to take out Mad Maduro – but Trump was able to announce that the said madman would accept all illegal Venezuelans from America. Love was certainly in the air!!
Well, last Monday, the other foot (heart?) fell. Two Venezuelan state-owned Conviasa planes – ferrying 190 Venezuelan nationals – departed from US Army base Fort Bliss, Texas, and landed at Simón Bolívar Airport in Caracas that evening. Now only another 599,800 Venezuelan refugees left to go!!
But Mad Maduro announced that the Grenell meeting hadn’t only dealt with the returning Venezuelan migrants; there were agreements on US economic sanctions and the re-establishment of direct communication between the two nations!!
Trump and Mad Maduro whispering sweet nothings to each other!! That’s scary – for us!!
…race war??
The Chronic carried a troubling piece on the leader – and Presidential Candidate – of the paper party WPA, that just signed an agreement to go into the elections with the PNC. That agreement itself was troubling, since the PNC had already signed an agreement to do the same with the four paper parties in APNU, but the WPA say they ain’t doing nothing with APNU!! They all want to find relevance through the PNC!!
Evidently, he was livid that some African Guyanese are now supporting the PPP in general – and Pres Ali in particular. According to the Chronic, he screamed, “And some of you lick a55! Lick beetee! Black people are running around the place [saying] ‘I am campaigning for the return of President Ali.’ Lick backside! That’s what y’all are! All of y’all!” Continuing with his fixation on the nether aperture, he exclaimed: “Y’all prefer to lick somebody else’s a** and find everything that is wrong about black leaders!” Imagine that!!
Can’t you be racist to one of your own race?? Over to the ERC!!!
…Hercules
We all know that Hercules cleaned the Augean Stables. Now Musk says DOGE is investigating federal employees with massive wealth despite modest salaries. Sounds familiar, innit?? Good luck!!
