no i will not link to cnn
Maduro was otherizing the CIA and making it feel unsafe. He was basically doing emotional abuse
this post was submitted on 29 Jan 2026
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One of the most empowering things about working at CIA has been how it's a workplace that doesn't limit where I belong. And when toxic people yell at me and tell me that the kidnapping I'm doing is illegal, I know that my team has my back and I can let my excellence speak for itself.
People will actually defend this, too. They'll say that Maduro was just making stuff up before and frame it like a boy-who-cried-wolf situation, and actually, Maduro must have given Trump the idea to attempt a regime change operation etc etc
I think there is some degree of truth to it. For starters, there will definitely be somebody out there who pre-emptively blames the CIA in bad faith for the Legos their toddler left on the floor. And there are places the CIA is trying to infiltrate so hard, it actually was the CIA most of the time, so it would make sense to accuse the CIA. The only value an actual investigation would have is outing the mole. Maduro has the right to be paranoid and the mandate to be vigilant.
This wouldn't be Maduro's fault. The CIA created this environment. I don't particularly care if Maduro lied about the CIA once or twice. If he's a villain at all, he's not the Sauron/Voldemort of this story.
There’s a book my dad tried to get me to read when I was a teen called “The Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot” about how leftist leaders constantly blamed the CIA for their problems.
By opening the ever-escalating debate regarding Latin America's "underdeveloped" status and cloaking the seriousness of the situation with wit and humor, the Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot reached number one status on the nonfiction bestseller lists in many countries in Latin America. It reveals the connection between economic success and cultural values—attitudes toward work, education, health care and community—and the consequence of the Latin American people retaining or evolving these values.
Give your dad Wasgington Bullets. It proves the CIA couped Arbenz using the CIA as the only source.
Dad is going senile. So not worth it
If that's the book I'm thinking about, the only reason it exists is because the author got too mad at Open Veins of Latin America.
very convenient mr maduro, and is this CIA in the room with us
Yes they are
ignore him he's just observing
"Maduro thought that we were gonna do the thing we did, which proves him the fool"
"without evidence" while he's in New York and not Venezuela
The CIA only infiltrated and toppled Maduro because he kept calling them infiltrators and topplers.
