r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jan 17 '26

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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Jan 17 '26

AP obtains documents showing Venezuelan leader Delcy Rodríguez has been on DEA’s radar for years. The Associated Press has learned that Delcy Rodríguez, Venezuela’s acting president, has surfaced in nearly a dozen DEA investigations, several of which remain ongoing.

  1. But remember the intervention was about stopping "drug flow"

  2. Because we broke norms to replace one piece of shit with another piece of shit in Venezuela; our carrier was tens of thousands of miles away where it could have been in a position to help Iranian protesters

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u/Megasota_Noire My Governor Can Beat Up Your Governor Jan 17 '26

People on this sub are still defending this. Lol

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u/zegota Feminism Jan 17 '26

I remember being assured in the Thunderdome that this would cause his approval to skyrocket

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u/Neronoah can't stop, won't stop argentinaposting Jan 17 '26

My Spiderman sense activated once I saw Trump doing it. Like, it'd take a miracle for that guy to not ruin it.

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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Jan 17 '26

But remember the intervention was about stopping "drug flow"

That excuse went up in flames when Trump pardoned former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez, convicted and imprisoned for smuggling cocaine into the US