Was this attack an inside job? coup?

[Cattledog]

Seems like it was. Maduro had a $50 million bounty on his head, doesn't take too much of a stretch that someone close to Madero
provided intelligence to get him. I have heard no accounts of fighting or resistance to protect him.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

1. Makes one wonder doesn't it?

Were his security forces bribed to let Maduro and his wife be taken without a fight?
Interesting theory, $50 mil. is a mighty big incentive.

[yaesu]

2. Yeah, that was my guess also I'm thinking tRump and Putin worked out a deal

letting tRump attack one of russias supporters in exchange for letting Russia destroy Ukraine, just a thought.

[Wuddles440]

4. When Putin pulled his personnel...

out of Venezuela last week, it was fairly obvious that he had given his puppet authorization to remove Maduro in exchange for increasing the pressure on Zelensky to submit to his demands.

[underpants]

3. I was thinking the same thing. Was there even a firefight?

I wasn’t aware of the $50M which makes it make more sense.

Our Special Forces are top notch but nothing is that seamless.

[QueerDuck]

5. Are any countries or organizations putting a bounty on Trump?

[allegorical oracle]

7. Wondered that, too. Mighty convenient -- problem with another nation's leader?

Swoop in, load the leader up, fly him/her to your country, indict 'em -- and problem solved. In this case, news reports keep saying that Maduro's regime is still in place. Cuba's probably next.

[rzemanfl]

6. Everything TSF does is corrupt.

Why would this be different?