Getting Venezuelan President Maduro Out Of Town

 Nadene Goldfoot                                           

Nicolás Maduro Moros was born on 23 November 1962(,was 63 years old)   in Caracas, Venezuela, into a working-class family. His father, Nicolás Maduro García, was a prominent trade union leader and a "militant dreamer of the Movimiento Electoral del Pueblo (MEP)" and died in a motor vehicle accident on 22 April 1989. His mother, Teresa de Jesús Moros, was born in Cúcuta, a Colombian border town at the boundary with Venezuela. Maduro was raised in Calle 14, a street in Los Jardines, El Valle, a working-class neighborhood on the western outskirts of Caracas. The only male of four siblings, he had three sisters, María Teresa, Josefina, and Anita.

Maduro was raised Catholic. In 2012, it was reported by The New York Times that he was a follower of Indian Hindu guru Sathya Sai Baba and previously visited the guru in India in 2005.^[42] In a 2013 interview, Maduro stated that his grandparents were Jewish, from a Sephardic Moorish background, and converted to Catholicism in Venezuela".                                  

In the 1930s, people identified as Moors lived primarily in North Africa (Mauretania, Morocco, Algeria, etc.), as descendants of those who inhabited the historical Islamic Spain (Al-Andalus),  while others, especially in America, connected to this heritage through groups like the Moorish Science Temple(non existant in Venezuela, only in USA); the term "Moor" referred to Berber and Arab Muslims from North Africa who ruled parts of Iberia for centuries before 1492:  the Iberian Peninsula (modern Spain and Portugal)

Nicolás Maduro Moros (born 23 November 1962) is a Venezuelan politician and former union leader who has served as the president of Venezuela since 2013.  He served as the vice president under President Hugo Chávez from 2012 to 2013, and minister of foreign affairs from 2006 to 2012.

 Maduro assumed the presidency after Chávez's death and won the 2013 special presidential election. He has ruled Venezuela by decree since 2015 through powers granted to him by the ruling party legislature. Shortages in Venezuela and decreased living standards led to a wave of protests in 2014 that escalated into daily marches nationwide, repression of dissent and a decline in Maduro's popularity.  

In the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Maduro has frequently supported the Palestinian cause in international forums, declaring that "Jesus Christ was a young Palestinian unjustly crucified by the Spanish Empire". On 7 November 2023, he condemned Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip during the Gaza war and accused Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza

 Since January 1, 2026, Maduro has been detained by the United States military and thus unable to discharge presidential functions. That's because he and his wife, Celia, were just kidnapped by our US Seals, news that greeted us this morning  and taken out of his palace. Perhaps the lady running against him in the previous election who actually won the race 3:1 will take over now.  It's not known as yet.

Why did Trump go after Maduro?   He accused Maduro of being behind destabilising activity in the Americas, including drug trafficking and illegal immigration to the US. In July, the US announced a $50m (£37m) bounty on Maduro’s head, accusing him of being one of the largest narco-traffickers in the world.

Trump’s administration declared Venezuelan gangs such as Tren de Aragua as terrorist organisations and began carrying out airstrikes against alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean sea. Soon, the US began to seize Venezuelan tankers and build up its military presence in the waters surrounding the South American country.

 Resource:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moors#:~:text=by%20the%20Moors.-,Modern%20meanings,Azawagh%20region%20of%20the%20Sahara.

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315073033-192/moorish-science-temple-arthur-huff-pauset

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/03/why-trump-us-attacked-caracas-captured-venezuela-president-nicolas-maduro