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Still down for me.

I set it up to open the port for few secs via port knocking. Plus another script that runs on the server that opens connections to my home ip addr doing reverse lookup to a domain my router updates via dyndns so devices at my home don’t need to port knock to connect.

I think the next in line is her brother, who is the president of the National Assembly (Congress).


Venezuelans are cheering.


And what are they going to to do against the militias and military that are loyal to Maduros political party?

I'll tell you. Nothing. They are going to do nothing. Because they can't.


We’ll see about that. In the meantime I get to see Maduro handcuffed and blindfolded on a US warship heading to NY.

Life is good.


>> And what are they going to to do against the militias and military that are loyal to Maduros political party?

> We’ll see about that.

This seems hand-wavy - like you're not aware of any plan for the future and that you're comfortable with that. If I'm mistaken, what specifics have you heard?

> In the meantime I get to see Maduro handcuffed and blindfolded on a US warship heading to NY.

This sounds like great joy to have working to install leadership that won't massively harm VE (for once).

But this joy would also sound ominous in the absence any such work - like you're being distracted while something awful is put in place.

At the least, I'd check out this post with news links - that this US admin has designs on VE's oil facilities.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46473348#46478023


Life is good? Your feeling about the goodness of life depends on if a powerful country captures the leader of another country?

Whatever you think of the morality and ethics of the man, the precedent, the outcome, the extrajudicial action is opening the door for less law and order in the world.

This sets a precedent that the US is back to regime change and world policing, and that went swimmingly in the past as we all know.


Are you under the impression that Maduro is a fairly and lawfully elected leader? Because he absolutely is not.


That's true. But a similar case could be made for many other world leaders, they just don't happen to be sitting on top of a lot of oil and/or are able to credibly defend themselves. This was never about Maduro or democracy.


A murderer dictator was brought down. We shall celebrate, yes.


approx 8 million, and we are not allowed to vote, which is against the constitution.


The refugee crisis was already ongoing precisely due to the dire situation of Venezuela. They stole the 2024 election as well, the opposition won BIG.


No, they lost the 2024 election by a landslide, it’s one of the reasons of what happened today.


> No, they lost the 2024 election by a landslide

I don't belittle what VE has gone thru and I accept that something awful for you has been removed from the board.

> it’s one of the reasons of what happened today.

I would clarify that the current US leadership has little/no history of taking actions that are genuinely for others' welfare. The admin continually claims it is doing good. It's a continual stream, one after the other. By the time one is debunked (and they are), ten more are issued.

This method is dividing many Americans (by design) between those who believe the stream of claims and those being overwhelmed by the mountain of debunked falsehoods.


Maybe. But there is still popular support; and some of the elections Chavez won, he actually did win.


Irrelevant, Chavez died 13 years ago, a lot has happened and changed. Maduro lost the last election hard, he wrecked the support he inherited back then


True, but that is irrelevant today, they squandered that support and people want a change now.


imo this was negotiated, we need more details


Good riddance! But there are other key figures that need to be captured.


regime change starts at home


It wasn’t for a lack of trying. The dead and imprisoned for it are evidence.


No doubt. In the US the phrase has a strong undertone of "we need to change the regime that's undertaking this latest foreign regime change".


8 million is a lot in a country that around 30 million population.

Plus the opposition won the 2024 election by a landslide, but it was stolen by Maduro.

The overwhelming majority wants the regime to end.


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