While Maduro played dictator and CNN ran humanitarian crisis segments, American money was flowing into Caracas. The objective was acquisition.

US foundations were buying Venezuelan bonds, debt, equity, gold, and oil. Pennies on the dollar while the country collapsed into starvation. Members of Congress with financial stakes through careful proxies. Through humanitarian language.

Through the same laundering networks that have operated for 50 years.

Two months earlier, President Trump had signed an executive order prohibiting transactions with Venezuela’s oil sector.

Standard sanctions on the surface. Financial guillotine underneath.

The order severed Congressional money. Cut foundation stakes. Killed portfolios belonging to American politicians who publicly condemned the regime they were privately invested in.

For seven years, the world watched Venezuela collapse and called it socialism’s failure.

China had poured $60 billion into Venezuela. Oil-for-loans, infrastructure for access. Same playbook that gave Beijing control over African minerals. The CCP expected to own the Western Hemisphere’s largest oil reserves while using Venezuela as a hemispheric beachhead for money laundering, intelligence operations, and strategic positioning.

China was installing governance infrastructure. Smart city platforms. Surveillance systems. Payment rails. AI-enabled administrative systems that would make Venezuelan sovereignty conditional on Chinese hardware, updates, and cloud access. Once embedded, extraction becomes nearly impossible. You can change leaders. You can rewrite constitutions. But you cannot easily remove an AI governance layer without collapsing basic state functions.

Trump’s sanctions prevented installation from completing.

While Trump’s first administration choked the regime, Samantha Power ran USAID like her personal State Department. She provided backdoor relief under a humanitarian banner that nullified Trump’s economic warfare. Keeping foundation investments viable. Maintaining Congressional stakes. Preserving CCP access through the same networks.

By 2025, Maduro was caught between colliding empires.

China viewing him as a failed investment. Russia treating him as an afterthought. Iran broke. USAID providing just enough relief to keep him breathing but not enough to save him.

Two choices: Continue serving masters who’d abandoned him, or flip.

He flipped.

Most people do not realize how much the world just changed.

March 2020. Southern District of New York unsealed: United States v. Nicolás Maduro Moros.

Twenty-five years cocaine trafficking. Thousands of tons imported. Diplomatic passports for traffickers. Money laundering through Mexico.

The indictment proves the predicate. Drug trafficking. Money laundering. State-sponsored narcoterrorism.

Indictments name the sellers while omitting the buyers.

For twenty-five years, billions in cocaine proceeds had to be washed. Integrated into global financial system. Turned into bonds, real estate, campaign contributions, foundation endowments.

Maduro is heading to deposition.

USS Iwo Jima. En route to SDNY. With filing cabinet.

Which foundations bought the bonds. When. Through which proxies. Which Congress members had indirect stakes. How much Petróleos money flowed to Washington. How USAID funds got laundered back while Samantha Power claimed humanitarian mission. How CCP money moved through the same networks purchasing Congressional influence and energy access simultaneously.

The evidence regarding voting systems created to produce altered election results in Venezuela for Hugo Chávez, then exported internationally.

The Dominion origin story Sidney Powell described in 2020?

Names. Dates. Transactions. Wire transfers. Foundation documents. Congressional proxies. CCP payment routes.

All heading to Southern District of New York. Where Maduro’s indictment is already unsealed. Where foundation money becomes traceable. Where Congressional corruption becomes discoverable. Where CCP infiltration becomes documentable. Where everything becomes admissible.

If Venezuela was the CCP’s Western Hemisphere front door, Paraguay is the back door.

Cuba watching. “If I lived in Havana and I was in the government, I’d be concerned at least a little bit,” Rubio said this morning.

Iran already threatened. Khamenei might need to be “saved.”

The machinery operating above governments.

Someone just dropped into that engine room with warrant and protective custody.