🇻🇪⚠️ — 🗳 The crisis in the Venezuelan election marks a historic failure for US President Joe Biden to ensure free elections in the country.
➡️ Despite signing the Barbados Agreement promising free elections in exchange for lifting sanctions on Venezuela, dictator Nicolás Maduro did not allow the main opposition coalition, the Unified Platform, to register Corina Yoris as a candidate, and she will not be able to participate in the elections.
➡️ The Chavista regime only allowed the following 13 candidates, who are either officialists or "accomplice opposition," meaning allies of Chavismo's legislative decisions:
1. Nicolás Maduro 🚩
2. Luis Eduardo MartĂnez đźš©
3. Antonio Ecarri đźš©
4. Juan Carlos Alvarado
5. Daniel Ceballos đźš©
6. BenjamĂn Rausseo
7. Javier Bertucci đźš©
8. José Brito
9. Claudio FermĂn đźš©
10. Luis Ratti đźš©
11. Enrique Marquez đźš©
12. Pablo Zambrano đźš©
13. Manuel Rosales
❗️ The only uncertainty is Manuel Rosales, the current governor of the state of Zulia, who despite his current collaboration with the regime, used to be an opponent of Chávez and could leave his place for someone chosen by Maria Corina Machado.
⚖️ 🇺🇸 🏛 He Who Decides the Exception: Trump Should Disregard the Supreme Court’s National Guard Ruling
⬛️ Judicial overreach mustn’t be permitted to trample the public necessity.
🔶️ The Supreme Court has again reminded the country that, in the American system, the judiciary can halt executive action with the stroke of a pen—this time keeping in place a lower-court order blocking President Trump’s attempt to federalize and deploy National Guard forces to protect besieged immigration enforcement operations in and around Chicago.
🔶️ The point was that a republic cannot outsource its highest political judgments to a tribunal without hollowing out self-government. Put those threads together—Cicero’s salus populi, Aquinas’ equity, Locke’s prerogative, Hamilton’s executive energy, Jefferson’s coordinate construction, Jackson’s independence, Lincoln’s warning—and you get a tradition that modern progressives and libertarians alike often deny ...
This is no longer a red-versus-blue spectator sport or partisan cheerleading exercise. The macro reality is brutally apolitical. The United States is functionally bankrupt, as Ron Paul has warned for decades, and the evidence is now manifesting in collapsing purchasing power. The price of acquiring real money—gold and silver—has surged roughly 200% in just two years, a silent tax that represents systemic looting via monetary debasement. We are drifting toward a sovereign debt crisis unprecedented in the entire history of fiat currency regimes. Even conservative frameworks, like Jim Rickards’ back-of-the-napkin gold revaluation tied to balance-sheet realities, imply a potential trajectory toward $27,000 per ounce. You don’t need to be a “gold bug” to recognize risk management: allocating even 10% of depreciating Federal Reserve notes into real money is simple capital preservation. It’s not about upside speculation—it’s about avoiding total annihilation if real money ...