{"id":56988,"date":"2026-01-06T10:23:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T18:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=56988"},"modified":"2026-01-06T10:23:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T18:23:50","slug":"ron-paul-lies-and-corruption-tarnish-trumps-venezuela-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/06\/ron-paul-lies-and-corruption-tarnish-trumps-venezuela-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul: Lies and Corruption Tarnish Trump&#8217;s Venezuela Operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>On today\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@RonPaulLibertyReport\">Ron Paul Liberty Report<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The case against Nicolas Maduro hinged on the Trump Administration&#8217;s designation of Cartel de los Soles as a terrorist drug organization with Maduro in charge. The Administration has now admitted there is no such cartel. The operation looks like not much more than a big payoff to Trump&#8217;s donors, including &#8220;vulture&#8221; capitalist Paul Singer who stands to make billions from the operation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qbnlOWu8X3Q?si=qQ2hdaP78vgAofQI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today\u2019s Ron Paul Liberty Report: The case against Nicolas Maduro hinged on the Trump Administration&#8217;s designation of Cartel de los Soles as a terrorist drug organization with Maduro in charge. The Administration has now admitted there is no such cartel. The operation looks like not much more than a big payoff to Trump&#8217;s donors, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[767],"class_list":["post-56988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"0","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56988"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56993,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56988\/revisions\/56993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56988"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=56988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}