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Venezuela Nightmare: USA Citizens Under Siege
By
 Michael Baxter
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January 12, 2026

Approximately 16,000 United States citizens still reside in Caracas, none of whom are safe from the far-reaching influence of imprisoned Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro, who, despite his current situation—held in a 6-by-9-foot cell in the Federal Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, still controls the country’s militias. One such paramilitary unit, said to be 3000-strong, has placed $2500-$10,000 bounties—dead or alive—on the heads of Americans.

On Friday, a Venezuelan brigand, Marcial Orantes, leader of Frente Popular militia, and 300 of his armed and violent henchmen stormed Venezolana de Televisión, the country’s state-run channel, and murdered an anchorman who praised President Donald J. Trump for capturing a madman. Orantes and his minions commandeered the newsroom and used its equ