David Smilde
@dsmilde.bsky.social
Check out my Substack "Venezuela and the United States" https://davidsmilde.substack.com/ Opinions expressed are my own.
The Incomprehensible March Toward Regime Change in Venezuela www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
Opinion | The Incomprehensible March Toward Regime Change in Venezuela
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November 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The Incomprehensible March Toward Regime Change in Venezuela www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
The Incomprehensible March Toward Regime Change in Venezuela www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
Opinion | The Incomprehensible March Toward Regime Change in Venezuela
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November 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The Incomprehensible March Toward Regime Change in Venezuela www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
Wealthy People Have Always Shaped Universities. This Time Is Different. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Wealthy People Have Always Shaped Universities. This Time Is Different.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Wealthy People Have Always Shaped Universities. This Time Is Different. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
“Trying to force regime change through violence will ultimately undercut the goal of both the opposition and the vast majority of Venezuelans to set up a safe, stable, and law-based system to replace Maduro’s rule.”
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The Peril of Ousting Maduro
Only a gradual transition—not regime change by corce—can restore Venezuela’s democracy.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:49 PM
“Trying to force regime change through violence will ultimately undercut the goal of both the opposition and the vast majority of Venezuelans to set up a safe, stable, and law-based system to replace Maduro’s rule.”
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“Having outsourced its strategy to a foreign power, the Venezuelan opposition can, for now, do little but brace for impact.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
Opinion | I’m in Venezuela. This Is the True Cost of Trump’s Gunboat Diplomacy.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
“Having outsourced its strategy to a foreign power, the Venezuelan opposition can, for now, do little but brace for impact.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
Trump Said to Authorize C.I.A. Plans for Covert Action in Venezuela www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
Trump Said to Authorize C.I.A. Plans for Covert Action in Venezuela
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November 19, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Trump Said to Authorize C.I.A. Plans for Covert Action in Venezuela www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
"Is President Trump's campaign against Venezuela about drugs...or something else?"
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"Is President Trump's campaign against Venezuela about drugs...or something else?"
Interview on WWL Radio
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November 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
"Is President Trump's campaign against Venezuela about drugs...or something else?"
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US/El Salvador: Torture of Venezuelan Deportees
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US/El Salvador: Torture of Venezuelan Deportees
The Venezuelan nationals the US government sent to El Salvador in March and April were tortured and subjected to other abuses, including sexual violence.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:41 PM
US/El Salvador: Torture of Venezuelan Deportees
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‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
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November 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
“Cuanto más nos traguemos estas mentiras ahora, más difícil nos resultará cuestionar futuras falsedades” - elpais.com/opinion/2025...
La gran mentira detrás de los ataques de Trump a los barcos
EE UU está adoctrinando a la prensa y al público estadounidense para que asocien las acciones militares con la detención del flujo de fentanilo
elpais.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“Cuanto más nos traguemos estas mentiras ahora, más difícil nos resultará cuestionar futuras falsedades” - elpais.com/opinion/2025...
“As Mr. Trump bombs boats that may or may not be transporting drugs, concocts a pretext to invade Venezuela…and declares vague emergencies and wars to justify his own partisan political ends, he should pause to thank the man who showed America how it could be done.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...
Opinion | The Tragedy of Dick Cheney
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November 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM
“As Mr. Trump bombs boats that may or may not be transporting drugs, concocts a pretext to invade Venezuela…and declares vague emergencies and wars to justify his own partisan political ends, he should pause to thank the man who showed America how it could be done.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...
Reposted by David Smilde
"Maduro is a heinous dictator, and there is a need for international engagement. But what is to be done should be developed on the basis of real facts and analysis, not the tall tales of exiled and displaced leaders, which have led to disastrous miscalculations in the past" by @dsmilde.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
"Maduro is a heinous dictator, and there is a need for international engagement. But what is to be done should be developed on the basis of real facts and analysis, not the tall tales of exiled and displaced leaders, which have led to disastrous miscalculations in the past" by @dsmilde.bsky.social
The Debate Dividing the Supreme Court’s Liberal Justices www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/u...
The Debate Dividing the Supreme Court’s Liberal Justices
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October 31, 2025 at 11:04 AM
The Debate Dividing the Supreme Court’s Liberal Justices www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/u...
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This is just shameful. What a disgrace
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Revealed: police across US spread false rumors about Venezuelan gang threats
Claim that Tren de Aragua planned to attack officers was widely shared – only for FBI to later acknowledge it was mistaken, internal files show
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM