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NABEP increased output: 12 years in the making Anonymous Sat, 10/24/2026 - 09:22

Venezuelans with access to TV, internet and social media are incensed this morning, after seeing Alejandro Betancourt, for the first time on a nationwide broadcast, boasting about his "record-breaking" achievement in crude production: "...rompimos record de 115,000 barriles...todo constantemente rompiendo record..." In early June 2014, Hans Hertell (former U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic) was offering 75,000 barrels/day to oil traders in the spot market on behalf of Betancourt.

12 million Venezuelans to provide proof of life

Yesterday Venezuela's Identification Service (SAIME) put out a notice in social media, asking Venezuelans with IDs starting from 22 million to verify their data. Poor Eva Golinger is gonna have to go back to Caracas to provide proof that she's Venezuelan. Colombian narcoterrorist Rodrigo Granda and ETA terrorist Arturo Cubillas are probably booking flights too. Alex Saab and his narco partner German Rubio just missed the chance to get themselves verified. Delcy Rodriguez's way to promote tourism?

Julio Herrera Velutini pays Alina Habba $50mil for Trump's pardon

Alina Habba has been in the news lately for the incredibly expedite way in which she married Turham Mildon, a Turkish "entrepreneur" (partner of Alex Saab) that had a bunch of "legitimate" businesses in Venezuela. Then, there's the accusation made against Ric Grenell, erstwhile confidant of Trump, whereby Habba and her Turkish delight alleged that Grenell pocketed a $6 million donation to the Kennedy Center.

Donald Trump is a Russian tool

"Section 1.  Background.  On September 18, 2026, I signed the Graham Act into law.  The Graham Act provides for the imposition of certain sanctions with respect to foreign persons, restrictions with respect to persons, and duties with respect to goods imported into the United States from the Russian Federation and certain other countries."

Delcy Rodriguez delivers German Rubio Salas (aka Alvaro Pulido Vargas) to U.S. justice

Alex Saab's longtime partner, German Rubio Salas (aka Alvaro Pulido Vargas), was recently delivered to U.S. justice by Delcy Rodriguez. Since this site's first report on Saab's "business activities" in Venezuela in 2013, Rubio Salas (an already convicted narco) was identified as the brains behind Saab's operations.

Is U.S. Treasury sitting on $15 billion worth of Venezuelan cash?

Read this first. Check the official sources used, like the Daily Treasury Statement (DTS). Contrast the Rodriguez regime's frantic actions to get new loans, to get the gold that was in England, the sweet deals given to "friends of Venezuela" like bolichico Betancourt, dealings with Trafigura and Vitol, etc., with the $15.8 billion that the U.S.