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Video: Kawsachun News via X (@KawsachunNews)
January 6, 2026 at 5:00 AM
January 6, 2026 at 4:58 AM
Venezuela’s interior minister Diosdado Cabello appears on a street in Caracas flanked by police, projecting an image of order and normality after the US kidnapping of Pres. Nicolás Maduro.

His forces chant, “Loyal always, traitors never.” Cabello is one of the most powerful figures in Venezuela...
January 6, 2026 at 4:58 AM
Video: Kawsachun News via X (@KawsachunNews)
January 6, 2026 at 4:57 AM
🔴 Nearly 65,000 civilians have been displaced from Sudan’s Kordofan region over the past 3 months as insecurity sharply worsened, according to a new statement from the UN’s Internat'l Org. for Migration.

The UN agency said its field teams recorded 56 separate...

See linked map below (red circle) ⬇️
January 6, 2026 at 4:55 AM
On-the-ground footage from Kawsachun News shows large crowds flooding central Caracas, chanting in support of Maduro & waving Venezuelan flags. Demonstrators interviewed at the scene denounced the US capture of the Venezuelan Pres. & First Lady Cilia Flores as an illegal kidnapping & a violation...
January 6, 2026 at 4:54 AM
January 6, 2026 at 4:51 AM
The US Justice Dept. has quietly dropped its earlier claim that Venezuela’s “Cartel de los Soles” is a formal drug cartel led by President Nicolás Maduro, the revised indictment unsealed after Maduro’s capture shows, NYT reports.

DOJ still accuses him of participating in drug trafficking, but...
January 6, 2026 at 4:51 AM
January 6, 2026 at 4:50 AM
President Trump declined to back Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado after U.S. intelligence and senior officials warned she lacked the internal leverage to govern & could trigger instability requiring a prolonged U.S. military presence, NYT reports.

According to U.S. intelligence...
January 6, 2026 at 4:49 AM
Video: Antony Loewenstein (X: @antloewenstein) | Al Jazeera English (X: @AJEnglish)

Full doc below
January 6, 2026 at 4:46 AM
🔴 NEW: Israel has authorized the use of electronic tracking devices on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, allowing real-time surveillance of civilians placed under administrative movement restrictions, a new IDF directive states. It applies to civilians who have not been charged, tried, or...
January 6, 2026 at 3:21 AM
January 6, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Security forces in Caracas opened fire after unidentified drones were seen flying over the Miraflores presidential palace late Mon. evening, Venezuelan government sources told AFP. The shots occurred around 8:00PM local time (0000 GMT) as drones were spotted near the seat of executive power...
January 6, 2026 at 1:55 AM
@emmavigeland.bsky.social | José Luis Granados Ceja (X: @GranadosCeja) | @majorityreport.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 1:54 AM
January 6, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Unverified reports on social media claim the clashes may be linked to an attempted internal power move/coup targeting acting president Delcy Rodríguez.

Video: BNO News Live via X (@BNODesk)
January 6, 2026 at 1:53 AM
@emmavigeland.bsky.social | José Luis Granados Ceja (X: @GranadosCeja) | @majorityreport.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 1:53 AM
🚨 BREAKING | VENEZUELA
Gunfire and loud explosions are reported near the Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, according to videos and eyewitness accounts circulating online.
January 6, 2026 at 1:53 AM
José Luis Granados Ceja explains that despite years of U.S. support for Venezuelan opposition factions, the current moment has pushed armed grassroots groups, former guerrilla elements, & hardline left organizations toward unity.

Groups w/ self-defense capacity are prioritizing nat'l sovereignty...
January 6, 2026 at 1:51 AM
José Luis Granados Ceja (X: @GranadosCeja) | @samseder.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 1:48 AM
José Luis Granados Ceja (X: @GranadosCeja) | @samseder.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 1:47 AM
—Sam Seder:
If Trump wants oil access, Rodríguez can’t simply deliver that. Armed collectives, guerrilla groups—this wouldn’t be frictionless.

—José Luis Granados Ceja:
Exactly. Stability and territorial integrity are at stake. Rodríguez is governing with a gun to her head. The U.S. has...
January 6, 2026 at 1:44 AM
A new report by the Financial Times presents a different reading than the analysis offered by Drop Site’s José Luis Granados Ceja, portraying Venezuela’s acting pres. Delcy Rodríguez as a figure Washington had come to view as workable rather than adversarial.

The FT reports that U.S. officials....
January 6, 2026 at 1:43 AM
José Luis Granados Ceja (X: @GranadosCeja) | @emmavigeland.bsky.social | @samseder.bsky.social | @majorityreport.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 1:42 AM