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Hello, everyone. Welcome. I don't know at what point you're joining this, if we're actually live here. This is an impromptu first stream of January for me, or 2026 for me. I think Wodge has probably streamed like 12 times now because he never stops. And neither does the news or the follies of American hubris and belligerents as the United States is attacking Venezuela, has captured, kidnapped, abducted, the president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, and his wife.

They are currently on a plane, I believe, heading to New York, which put a pin in that,

interesting, to face charges. We'll talk about them in a little bit.

This is what Jha Hadilly, obviously, we're streaming on the left hook substack as well as the bituation room. I'm Francesca Fiorentini. Hopefully people are here. Why'd you ping me if there's something wrong? Because who knows? I don't think I'm streaming, but it's fine. I'll put it up later. Who cares? We'll figure it out. Are you sure? Well, you keep talking and when I rant, I'll give you, I'll give you the stream key for mine. Okay, okay. Yeah. I'm going to try and add it. You can also share mine. See, this is very annoying via, you know, the whole, anyway, it doesn't matter. The point is, come over here. And thank you, thank you so much for being here. We just, I just had to jump on this. It's Saturday, you know, everyone's kind of coming back from, you know, the break or whatever, if you ever had a break. If you don't have kids, you don't know what that

break is. But here we are. And yes, at midnight, and I'm sorry, there are some people who are like,

why, why do you guys cover this earlier? And I'm like, I'm one person. I don't have a news outlet.

And CBS is, you know, mainstream news outlets have also abdicated their duties as we've seen in the last,

you know, a few months and weeks. But here we are. It's something I care a lot about, which is

U.S. involvement in Latin America, Latin American politics. And yes, what we have feared was going to

happen has actually happened.

And Maduro is on board the USS Iwojima.

Again, so a warship.

He is allegedly heading to New York to face terrorism and drug charges. Now, if you're listening, just to give you a sense,

Maduro is wearing noise-canceling headphones and goggles. He's holding water, so we're not quite at

Gitmo level, but he's being treated effectively like a Guantanamo prisoner, like a terrorist.

He's being subjected to sensory deprivation on and on and on.

Now, the strikes, it appears there were seven strikes in different locations.

So this is not just one strike to take out Maduro.

This was a very much a targeted, a targeted seven strikes to strike fear into the heart of the Venezuelan people and not only that, casualties.

So there have been, we don't know the official reports of how many people have been killed,

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