Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) slammed the U.S. operation that captured Venezuela's authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, saying it is not aimed at countering drug-trafficking.

“It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from Epstein + skyrocketing healthcare costs,” she claimed in a social media publication.

  • someguy3
    3·
    6 months ago

    You know thinking about this, I wonder if it was an inside job and the military let the helicopters in.

    • frongt@lemmy.zip
      7·
      6 months ago

      We won’t have all the details for a while, but yeah it’s kind of shocking how this happened with apparently no resistance. Surely Venezuela has some kind of anti-air capability.

      Edit: some details have come out. One US helicopter took a hit but remained operational. Multiple strikes against Venezuelan sites probably hindered their response. Reports of at least 40 Venezuelans dead in the operation, probably more, especially at those other sites.