Felix Duru Mbah

*Fear Grips Residents *Several Journalists Arrested For Reporting Truth *Finance Minister May Go As Govt Jittery Over Trump Venezuela's rulers have deployed armed militias to patrol streets, operate checkpoints and check people’s phones in a crackdown to consolidate authority after the US attack on Caracas, the oil-rich country's capital. Gunfire erupted on Monday night when security forces shot at unauthorised drones which reportedly were mistaken for another US operation. “There was no confrontation, the entire country remains completely calm,” the Deputy Information Minister, Simon Arrechider, told reporters, giving the government's version to the narrative. However, paramilitary groups known as colectivos…

*I've Distinct Abilities To Convince A Jury, He Says When Nicolás Maduro appeared in court in New York yesterday, his choice of lawyer quickly raised eyebrows. The captured Venezuelan President was accompanied by Barry Pollack, a top-tier US trial lawyer who spent years representing Julian Assange, eventually securing the WikiLeaks founder’s release from prison in the UK in 2024. Pollack is a partner at Harris St Laurent & Wechsler, a law firm based on New York’s Wall Street in the financial district of lower Manhattan, just a few minutes walk from the federal court where Maduro pleaded not guilty to…

*Wife In High Spirits *Case Adjourned To 17 March Deposed leader of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, pleaded “not guilty” to all four counts against him today, including drug-terrorism conspiracy, cocaine-importation conspiracy, and possession of machine guns and destructive devices. “I am innocent. I am not guilty. I am a decent man,” Maduro told judge Alvin Hellerstein in court today. Lawyers representing Maduro’s wife, Cilia Flores, told CBS News that she is in “good spirits” and that she is “aware that there is a long road ahead and is prepared.” “We look forward to reviewing and challenging the evidence the government has,"…

*We Could Have Killed Him, If -Trump *Troops Bombed Military Installations, Port Ahead Capture United States ( US) President Donald Trump has given an account of what really happened inside the safe house where the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, was captured at the weekend. He said Maduro ran off to a safe room inside the complex, but only got as far as the door before US soldiers halted him by force. Trump described the safe house as "a military fortress" located in the center of the country's capital, Caracas, adding, however, that US troops knew exactly how to breach it.…

Since Trump took office for his second term, he has put Venezuela's dictator Nicolas Maduro squarely in his crosshairs, pursuing a maximum pressure campaign against the regime. *He accused Maduro of being behind destabilising activity in the Americas, including drug trafficking and illegal immigration to the US.Maduro was alleged to have used the security agencies to murder, maim and disappear thousands of his country men/women in brutal repression against free speech and civil rights including of political opposition. He reportedly deliberately stampeded millions more to flee the country, especially to the US, for fear of their very lives. *In July,…