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Reports are emerging indicating that the Venezuelan Ambassador's residence in Washington D.C. may have been raided Thursday evening by the FBI and United States Secret Service officers. |
2024-02-16 |
[RedState] Reports are emerging indicating that the Venezuelan Ambassador's residence in Washington D.C. may have been raided Thursday evening by the FBI and United States Secret Service officers. However, other outlets are saying that the response was due to a trespasser. As of this writing, no official sources have commented, so RedState can neither confirm nor deny the details, but clearly something is going on: Mazza wrote: FBI and United States Secret Service officers have raided the Venezuelan Ambassador's Residence in Washington, DC on February 15, 2024. Heavy police activity could be seen in the area and FBI agents had raid jackets on as well as long guns. At approximately 8:50 PM, agents yelled "surrender" after calling out that they were on site and "police". Back in February 2023, the State Department took custody of the residence: The State Department took custody of Venezuela's embassy and official residences in Washington and New York after Juan Guaidó was voted out as interim president and the country was left without diplomats recognized by the US, people familiar with the matter said. The embassy had ceased operations in January 2023. The action comes after President Nicolás Maduro’s government expelled the U.N. Human Rights Agency Thursday. A United Nations agency that monitors and defends human rights was ordered on Thursday to leave Venezuela by the government of President Nicolás Maduro, an extraordinary move that will further strip the country of foreign oversight at a time when its government stands accused of intensifying repression… As I mentioned, there are conflicting reports about the nature of the law enforcement presence. According to ABC's Washington, D.C. affiliate, there wasn't a raid at all – it was just a simple case of trespassing: U.S. Secret Service agents are investigating a possible trespassing incident at the Venezuelan Ambassador's home in D.C. Thursday night, officials said. Yet another angle to consider in this drama is the issue of missing paintings -- could those have anything to do with what's going down? You can be sure Maduro doesn't want to lose the priceless artwork: United States Department of the Treasury in collaboration with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Italian Carabinieri opened an investigation into missing pieces of European and Latin American artwork that could not be found when Guaidó's representative moved into the embassy in May 2019, believing they were being discreetly plundered by Venezuelan authorities. The paintings, including a landscape of Caracas by Manuel Cabré, the portrait of "Juanita" by Armando Reverón, and a social realism piece by Héctor Poleo [es], were exhibited at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington in 2008. The estimated value of the paintings was $1 million. The last known sighting of the paintings was in a photo taken in the Venezuelan embassy in 2012. It’s unclear exactly what took place Thursday evening and what may still be unfolding in Washington, D.C. However, it’s evident that some action went down, and we will likely know more by Friday. |
Posted by:Grom the Reflective |
#6 Ah, #5, thank you. |
Posted by: swksvolFF 2024-02-16 18:45 |
#5 And why would Powers, authorities, and duties of United States Secret Service Hunter may have been using it for a crack house. A safehouse for domestic Posse Comitatus actors? |
Posted by: Skidmark 2024-02-16 17:42 |
#4 So Venezuela threatens Guyana over oil. Guyana puts out notice it would like to purchase weapons. And by the end of the week, this. And why would the secret service respond to a simple trespasser? |
Posted by: swksvolFF 2024-02-16 16:26 |
#3 US Takes Custody of Venezuela Embassy in Wake of Guaidó Vote So now they have a clubhouse/blacksite. |
Posted by: Skidmark 2024-02-16 14:47 |
#2 They buried the lead. It was abandoned and taken over by the State Department and hes been unoccupied since January, 2023. Just criminal trespass, not a raid! |
Posted by: NoMoreBS 2024-02-16 13:40 |
#1 Hunter ever "worked" for ExxonMobil? |
Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-02-16 04:26 |