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Buck Brief - Trump Going Bigly Against Venezuela Cartel Boss
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You're listening to the Buck Sexton show podcast. Make sure you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. So what's actually going on in Venezuela? Is Trump planning to topple the government there? Will there be an invasion? Could there be US Troops? Where's Maduro going to go? How the heck did we get here? I think it's time for a buck brief, for a deep dive into what's happening here. This is a great thing for you to listen to over the weekend because by the end of it, it won't be very long. It'll be a normal buck brief length. But you'll know more than 99% of the people you see on TV talking about Venezuela, because these days people, you know, don't read and don't really pay very much attention. They just go on TV and blab. So what's happening? Here's what you gotta understand, and I'll take you to the beginning. I'll give you everything you need to know about Venezuela for the last 15 years in about 15 minutes. How about you go back to the Chavez regime? Well, Chavez comes in, he's a classic Bolivarian socialist. He says he's going to redistribute the land and it's going to be great and there's going to be plenty for everybody as long as he's in charge. But they seize the government means of production. They're wildly corrupt, they're repressive, totalitarian. And then Maduro takes over. And Maduro is like a. A dumber, more thuggish version of.
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Chavez. So when you look at what's gone on, it has been an even faster descent into a socialist communist hellscape in Venezuela than anybody could have, I think, previously imagined possible. Well, I guess if you're a student of history, you probably saw this coming. But here's the situation. You get this guy who comes in, Maduro, and. And he's elected, and sure enough, he takes over the economy and he's doing all this stuff where he's, you know, seizing the means of production and puts price controls in place. Controls in place, and he's doing all this stuff and it destroys the economy. I Mean the oil sector. Venezuela, largest proven oil reserves in the world, larger than Saudi Arabia. And they don't have enough money. The oil sector has gotten absolutely crushed there. They can't keep refineries online. They've got all kinds of problems with the international community. It's all coming apart. They're bare shelves. Crime gets completely out of control. Why does crime get out of control? Well, in part because it's a criminal syndicate running the state of Venezuela. Venezuela is a narco state. A true narco state, meaning Maduro and his top guys. I think there's a $50 million bounty on Maduro right now. 50 million. That's real money. The reason that they're able to even stay in power up to this point. And I'll get into the election from last, not this past summer, the summer before that. But the reason is that they are able to pay people off in their inner circle, the security forces, thugs that collectivos which are just their street thugs, effectively most Maduro's brown shirts. They're able to.
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Continue to do what they do because they're getting hard cold cash, cold hard cash from selling fentanyl to the United States. That's why the narco strikes on their boats. And Pete Hegseth just said last night there was another one, another one, he's calling them out. These strikes on the boats are cutting off the capital that they need to continue to run their government because it's a thug drug runner government. That's what Maduro is. What a shock. Social justice isn't really about justice and it's not particularly social either. Right. This is a complete disaster of a country. Ok, so then you get into where things are currently and when you look at the.
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Destruction of their currency, I can't even give you offhand how much inflation there has been. But you're talking hyperinflation, ok? The, the poverty rate has gone through the roof. The inflation numbers look like Zimbabwe. And Maduro is not really a president, he's a cartel boss. So think of this like Pablo Escobar is the president, quote unquote of Venezuela. That's what has actually happened there. That is the truth of that country. And so now you get to, like I said, $300 billion over that for proven reserves. Now you get to the current state of play, or rather what has brought us to the current state of play. And they had an election where 70% of Venezuelans voted against Maduro and for the opposition. And guess what Maduro just said, nah, we're still in charge. Oh you mean the democrat socialist Maduro who wants to give more to the poor people and is really just an elitist thug who will use extreme violence by the way they're detaining, they're doing all the worst stuff, all the things that you think some third world tin pot dictator does to stay in power. Maduro is doing those things, torturing people, using rape as a weapon of repression against people who speak out. I mean the worst kinds of stuff. Worst kinds of stuff. And just keep in mind that whether it was Chavez or Maduro, places like the New York Times 10, 15 years ago were writing about how reform was coming to Venezuela and redistribution of wealth and how this was going to make everybody, this is going to take care of the forgotten people of Venezuela and all the rest of it. So that's what's going on there. It's just been, like I said, total disaster. So they just ignore the election results, stay in power and to do so they have had to rely on the most unsavory of allies imaginable. Who's propping up? I mean this is really all you have to know. Who's propping up the Maduro regime right now in Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, Russia, basically the biggest malefactors, the biggest evildoers on the global scene. I mean North Korea is not really quite as involved. It's kind of far, you know, North Korea, but you got some of the worst players on the global scene. What's Cuba doing? Well, Cuba cuz it's another crap economy. Thank you. Socialism. Noticing a trend, aren't you? Honestly, Latin America, I gotta ask, what is going on with you guys not figuring out that socialism is ruinous and destructive? How many times do we have to go through? I know, you get Argentina, Milei, some people figure this out and. But you see what's going on in Brazil, you see what's happening in these countries. Take this turn to the left. It's just destruction.
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It just makes everybody poorer, more miserable.
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Buck Sexton
And there's more repression every time, every time. But I guess they can appeal to people's emotions there. Oh, we'll take from the rich people and give it to you. No, they just. The people in Latin America who say they're going to take from the rich and give to the poor, take from the rich to become the rich. That's what happens every time. That's the situation, that's the reality. So you have these bad countries, Russia, Iran, Cuba. Cuba is getting oil and in exchange is sending security thugs like Maduro's security detail, Cubans. So they, because they remember they were trained by the kgb. And the one thing the Cuban government is good at is thuggish repression. That's the one thing they make sure they really know how to do. So they're sending their Cuban thugs to Venezuela to prop up Maduro. And then you've got the Iranians and the Russians giving them military assistance and things like that. Whole thing's a total mess. It's a disaster. And now the Trump administration has said no mas, enough is enough. I'm going to get into what that could mean here in just a second. One of the better investments I've made in a long time is the purchase of gold. This year alone it's up 50% in value actually over that. And it's not slowing down because the long term thesis on gold remains strong. In fact, the last time we saw this kind of increase in the value of Gold was 1979. So if a portion of your savings aren't diversified into gold yet, you're missing out on a really good buying opportunity. When there's instability in the markets or there's conflict in the world, investors turn to gold as a safe haven and central banks are flocking to gold. There's a reason why it's at record highs. You can still get in the door now on this opportunity. Birch Gold Group can help you convert an existing IRA or 401k into a tax sheltered IRA. In gold you don't pay a dime out of pocket. Text my name Buck Do 989898 and claim your free info kit. There's no obligation, just useful information. Text my name Buck to 9898 98. Text Buck to 9898 98. Birch Gold Group. Go check them out. So now we're blowing up the boats.
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We're blowing up the boats because we want to stop them from killing Americans with the fentanyl that they carry. We want to put the drug cartels everywhere, including Mexico, on notice that we're not playing games anymore. And also it is exposing the reality of the Venezuelan narcos state, which is the only way that that place, the only way that that thug Maduro can stay in power is, is if they're selling drugs to kill Americans. Because the, as I said, the oil industry there is down dramatically. So let me see, you've got, exports have plunged like 30%. Chevron's license to export was yanked back in May of 2025.
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So they're way down in their oil exports and that's what they need to, to pay for everything the state does, they really don't have an economy beyond oil and drugs. So you're seeing what's going on there. But, yeah, I mean, Venezuela has just turned into Cuba with oil is really what has happened and we're tired of it. So the Trump administration is now blowing up these boats. Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War is blowing up these boats. Here's what's going to happen. They're going to get more desperate. Trump has said that you have to have that Maduro has to leave now. I think that was today, was actually, I'm talking to you on Friday, December 5th here, if you're listening over the weekend, I think by today was the deadline, so we may see some updates on this. But he said Maduro's got to go. So you've got a guy who has a $50 million bounty on his head is running a narco state. We're blowing up the. Remember why it's so important, Venezuela, for those drugs to be sold in the US Market and not go through the Mexican cartels who are going to just, you know, they're controlling the trade. They have their own fentanyl that they're making. So this is why the boats are still a thing, because they got to run those boats into usually intermediary countries. Little kind of tin pot dictatorship. Not dictatorships, but little sort of poor, poor sad countries in the Caribbean. You know, the kind of countries you go to on vacation. But like, if you actually leave the resort, you're like, oh, gosh, this place is in rough shape. They. They will stash the drugs there for a bit and then they'll try to bring them into the US from there. Transshipment point, I believe is the term they use. So the reason they've got to take them straight here is because they've got to cut out the Mexican cartels. So hitting these boats is strangling the cash that the drug cartels need, that the drug cartel of Maduro needs to stay in power. And Trenda Aragua is really just. Now the Venezuelan government's. Now they say there's. There's arguments about how involved with Trenda Aragua they are. It's a narco state doing illegal stuff. He's got a $50 million bounty on his head. Trust me. He's using Trenda Aragua as muscle. They're moving the product. It's all tied in together.
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So Aragua is a region, I think Trent is trained. Aragua is a region in Venezuela. I think there was a big prison there or something. And this is. It's a prison gang. It's a prison gang, sort of like MS.13, but in this case, which I think was founded in America, but it's become this transnational cartel. So we're blowing up their boats, which is going to put a lot of pressure on them. And if Maduro steps down, you could have an opposition take over. Here's the question or the problem that a lot of people have. We don't want to get involved in a rebuilding effort. We certainly don't want U.S. troops on the ground in Venezuela. I'm going to tell you this right now. I don't think we need to do that. I don't think we will do that. I don't think we want to do that. But just continuing on with this pressure campaign is likely to be enough to bring down the Maduro regime, which also would put tremendous pressure on the Cuban regime. We don't want a communist, lunatic, South America, Latin America on our periphery. We actually want to bring these countries into international norms, capitalism, the west, whatever you want to call it. We want them functioning like normal places. We want them reforming the extreme corruption that they have. And the people of Venezuela have been made so miserable by the idiocy of Bolivarian socialism that maybe going forward, they won't make the same mistake, at least for a generation or two. One would hope so. That's what I see happening here. I think Trump is on the right track. I think Secretary of State Rubio and Secretary of War Hegseth, they know what they're doing, and we shall see if they're able to without boots on the ground, without being involved in the coup. Just the pressure campaign alone brings Maduro down. I want to tell you about Preborn, our sponsor here. Preborn is saving the lives of so many babies day in and day out. And that includes, for example, Victoria. Victoria went to one of the preborn clinics, and that was after she walked into Planned Parenthood. But when she was in Planned Parenthood, she realized this was not what she wanted to do. She wanted to give life to her baby. She didn't want to kill her baby. So she went to a preborn clinic and they gave her love and support and a free ultrasound. Because once mom has that free ultrasound experience, meets the tiny baby in her womb, it's a game changer for life. This is your chance to make a difference. Pick up your phone, dial £250 and say the word baby so you can sponsor one of these ultrasounds. For Preborn, dial pound 250, say the word baby or donate securely at preborn.combuck preborn.com Buck do it now because life matters. Sponsored by Preborn all right, that's your Venezuela Deep Dive. Shields high how do I do it.
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