a Canadian very passionate about Venezuela and believer in democracy and freedom of speech for all. #SOSVenezuela #FreeVenezuela #VamosAGanar #HastaElFinal
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“Querida Delcy, espero que este correo te encuentre bien 👂”… Rafael Antonio Cerrada vía Insta
Sentimiento nacional Venezuela 🇻🇪
Michael Welling retweeted
Con toda la plata y poder que ha tenido el régimen durante años no han podido dañar la imagen intachable de MCM y una personaas con sus bots no van hacer la diferencia. La líder es imparable... 💪
#Venezuela #Oil @oavendano :Alejandro Betancourt, (Venezuelan Billionaire) through his Spanish representative, is desperately seeking to hire cheap influencers and buy pirate media to try to clean up his image and harm María Corina Machado.
Crude.
Michael Welling retweeted
Alejandro Betancourt es un delincuente común, ladrón como el solo. La justicia de Trump lo perdonó, pero de la de Venezuela no lo salva nadie.
#Venezuela #Oil @oavendano :Alejandro Betancourt, (Venezuelan Billionaire) through his Spanish representative, is desperately seeking to hire cheap influencers and buy pirate media to try to clean up his image and harm María Corina Machado.
Crude.
Michael Welling retweeted
Quick reminder of who Alejandro Betancourt is.
Derwick, his company with his cousin, got power plant contracts in Venezuela in 2009 with no tender, in the middle of Chávez's electricity emergency. Transparencia Venezuela calculated about $2.9 billion in overpricing. Venezuela still has blackouts.
In 2012 a Derwick company bought a castle in Toledo, El Alamín, for more than €22 million. The money came from a Derwick account in New York. According to US court documents he also bought a penthouse in the Olympic Tower on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.
Switzerland has been investigating him for money laundering since 2019. Spain reopened its case in June. In August 2025 Spanish police went to the castle to arrest him and he was already gone. In London he was arrested and could not leave the UK until May, when Switzerland dropped the extradition. The Swiss case is still open.
In Miami he was reportedly the unnamed co-conspirator in the PDVSA case. This year the probe was closed, in June he got a US multiple-entry visa, and now he runs the company in the US-Venezuela oil deal.
Never charged, and he denies everything.
Even if he comes out clean, there is enough background to doubt that someone like him, in charge of a huge oil deal, will protect Venezuela's best interests. Venezuelans deserve a clean slate.
So how much can lobbying and expensive lawyers clean?
Michael Welling retweeted
What?? This crazy is now in Venezuela doing propaganda for accused money launderer Alejandro Betancourt and the chavista dictatorship … more chavismo from the ultra MAGA right 🤣🤣 what a crossover
El Presidente Trump libero a Venezuela.
Ahora @MariaCorinaYA quiere dañar todo este trabajo para pagarle a sus donantes petroleros que le han pagado su vida de ineptitud y politiquería.
Es hora de ponerse a trabajar maria Corina, estás muy vieja para ser vividora de organizaciones de USAID.
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María Corina Machado criticó el acuerdo petrolero con Betancourt por su historial de corrupción alegada y falta de legitimidad/transparencia, no para dañarlo por donantes. No hay evidencia que respalde las acusaciones.
nytimes.com/es/2026/10/15/…
elpais.com/america/2026-0…
x.com/elpais_america…
Michael Welling retweeted
Convertir una plataforma petrolera en un set para lanzar berrinches políticos, intentar disfrazar de "éxito empresarial" la Venezuela de los enchufes y escupir ataques de cantina contra María Corina Machado demuestra que Valentina Gómez sabe exactamente lo mismo de producción que de dignidad: nada. Menos show patético y más vergüenza
#Venezuela #Oil @oavendano :Alejandro Betancourt, (Venezuelan Billionaire) through his Spanish representative, is desperately seeking to hire cheap influencers and buy pirate media to try to clean up his image and harm María Corina Machado.
Crude.
Michael Welling retweeted
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“María Corina cannot return, Perkins Rocha is confined to his home with an ankle monitor. Diosdado continues with his program threatening anyone who crosses his mind … Are these the conditions for a dialogue that leads to the reunification of Venezuelans?”
This is the question posed by @hectorschamis regarding the dialogue table set up in Venezuela.
“On what terms? With what rights? What are the guarantees?” -
#venezuela #mesadediálogo #negociación #SetTheDate
Michael Welling retweeted
MAGAZOLANOS and MAGACOLOMBIANOS are fighting
Its a MAGALATINO civil war!
El Presidente Trump libero a Venezuela.
Ahora @MariaCorinaYA quiere dañar todo este trabajo para pagarle a sus donantes petroleros que le han pagado su vida de ineptitud y politiquería.
Es hora de ponerse a trabajar maria Corina, estás muy vieja para ser vividora de organizaciones de USAID.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
María Corina Machado criticó el acuerdo petrolero con Betancourt por su historial de corrupción alegada y falta de legitimidad/transparencia, no para dañarlo por donantes. No hay evidencia que respalde las acusaciones.
nytimes.com/es/2026/10/15/…
elpais.com/america/2026-0…
x.com/elpais_america…
Michael Welling retweeted
A message to all international business leaders and investors looking to enter the Venezuelan market.
The Venezuelan people want you in our country. We want to build a Venezuela that welcomes investment, protects property rights, guarantees the rule of law, and offers the transparency and stability businesses need to thrive. We want your investments to succeed, your businesses to grow, and your capital to generate extraordinary returns over decades of prosperity.
But let us be clear: Venezuelans do not want you financing the survival of a murderous dictatorship that has spent 27 years destroying our country. A regime rejected by more than 85% of the Venezuelan people cannot offer the political legitimacy, institutional stability, or long-term legal guarantees that serious investors need. No business can build a lasting future on the shifting ground of authoritarian rule.
Do not confuse a short-term gamble with a long-term investment. The prospect of quick profits may be tempting, but fortunes are built over decades, not overnight.
Choose the future. Invest in the Venezuelan people. Stand on the right side of history—and on the right side of the market.
Those who support Venezuela's democratic aspirations and help build the foundations of a free economy will find a people eager to welcome them, grateful for their commitment, and ready to build lasting partnerships. The opportunity is not simply to enter a market. It is to help rebuild an entire nation and participate in the extraordinary growth that a free Venezuela could unlock.
Think in terms of decades, not quarters. Think about the legacy you will leave your children and grandchildren. Imagine building a successful business while helping millions of Venezuelans reclaim their freedom, their democracy, and something no financial return can ever fully replace: the chance to embrace the family members they have been separated from for years by a dictatorship that continues to destroy their lives.
The Venezuelan people are ready to build a different future. We invite you to be part of it. Bring your capital, your expertise, and your ambition. Invest in Venezuela's future, not in prolonging the final days of a dying dictatorship.
Michael Welling retweeted
MAGA trying so hard to exaggerate Trump’s success in Venezuela.
Believe me when I tell you that Venezuelans are not happy at all with the status quo.
You can ask any Venezuelan instead of relying on a grifter that has only been around for about a week in the country.
I’ve been in Venezuela the past few days because I wanted to see for myself the deals President Trump is making here.
I expected to find a complete state of disaster and anarchy in the streets.
Instead I watched videos of Paris & Milan burning to the ground.
Europe is going to fuck around and lose all it’s tourism at this rate if I can take a safer trip in Caracas than in Paris…
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Los disturbios en París y Milán son reales. Pero Venezuela no está bien: el IIES-UCAB indica que 7 de cada 10 hogares siguen en pobreza y cerca de un tercio en pobreza extrema. ANOVA reporta cortes diarios de luz en el 62,8% de los hogares.
Fuentes:
reuters.com/world/europe/f…
costadelsolfm.org/2026/10/7-de-c…
aljazeera.com/news/longform/…
Michael Welling retweeted
An article in The Hill exposes how Delcy Rodríguez’s dictatorship protects criminal and narco-terrorist groups that illegally extract minerals and sell them on the black market to China’s communist regime.
thehill.com/opinion/internat…
Michael Welling retweeted
These are just frustrated high school students fighting for their pedagogic rights. Let's not succumb to Islamophobia. - @JessicaTarlov
Do these really look like high schoolers annoyed that their classrooms are too dirty?
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This image appeared in a July 31, 2021 Swedish report on a gang clash in Hjällbo, Gothenburg—not a school protest. Swedish public broadcaster SVT independently reported the May 28 clash.
samnytt.se/se-hela-klankr…
svt.se/nyheter/lokalt…
Michael Welling retweeted
The despair of a Parisian - pleading with the feral smooth brains not to destroy her store
The death rattle of Paris as western civ breathes its last gasps.
Notre Dame was no accident. It was the beginning of the end.
Michael Welling retweeted
“The danger is not necessarily that Delcy Rodríguez intends to remain interim president forever. It is that an arrangement nobody originally expected to last may become useful enough, or simply tolerable. That ending it stops being an urgent priority.”
👇caracaschronicles.com/2026/1…
“María Corina cannot return, Perkins Rocha is confined to his home with an ankle monitor. Diosdado continues with his program threatening anyone who crosses his mind … Are these the conditions for a dialogue that leads to the reunification of Venezuelans?”
This is the question posed by @hectorschamis regarding the dialogue table set up in Venezuela.
“On what terms? With what rights? What are the guarantees?” -
#venezuela #mesadediálogo #negociación #SetTheDate
“María Corina no puede regresar, Perkins Rocha está preso en su casa con un grillete. Diosdado sigue con su programa amenazando a quien se le ocurre … Estas son condiciones para un diálogo que lleve al reencuentro de los venezolanos?”.
Es la pregunta que se hace @hectorschamis frente a la mesa de diálogo instalada en Venezuela.
“En qué términos?. Con que derechos?. Cuáles son las garantías?”
#venezuela #mesadediálogo #negociación
Michael Welling retweeted
Bringing an end to Venezuela’s socialist dictatorship will be our generation’s Fall of the Berlin Wall, opening a new era of freedom and prosperity across our hemisphere.
It will stand as one of President Trump’s greatest legacies, forging a free, democratic Venezuela into one of America’s strongest regional allies.
We’re ready for it, Rachel!
So glad we had the chance to reflect on all of this again.
Michael Welling retweeted
Dentro y fuera de nuestro país los venezolanos exigimos lo mismo:
La libertad de todos los presos políticos, el regreso de cada uno de los venezolanos perseguidos y la fecha de la elección presidencial.
Queremos elegir nuestro destino, reconstruir nuestro país y traer a nuestros hijos de vuelta a casa.
Esto sólo es posible en democracia y Libertad.
#SetTheDate
El mundo grita: ELECCIONES YA 🌎‼️
Los venezolanos en más de 100 ciudades alzan la voz por elecciones presidenciales libres, liberación de todos los presos políticos y el retorno seguro de los exiliados ⛓️💥
Los problemas de Venezuela no los va resolver quien los generó, por eso es urgente un nuevo gobierno electo por la gente 🇻🇪
Venezuela quiere volver a elegir #SetTheDate
Michael Welling retweeted
Señor, dame sabiduría para callarme cuando escucho semejante sarta de sandeces.
Serenidad para no responder como merecen.
Paciencia para soportar tanta bazofia disfrazada de negociación.
Y fuerza de voluntad para recordar que no todo lo que pienso necesita convertirse en un tuit.
Porque ganas de mandarlos a todos a tomar por culo no me faltan. Lo que me falta es autocontrol. 🙏🏻
Michael Welling retweeted
Señora @DinorahFiguera, usted no está ahí para presentarle a Jorge Rodríguez propuestas sobre salud pública. Su deber es exigir condiciones para la reinstitucionalización del país, garantías democráticas y un calendario electoral serio.
