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Let us examine the recent turnaround in Venezuela, since most of our media is busy continuing its war on all things Donald Trump, which has included comforting the remaining Iranian jihadists clinging to power.As you may recall, on Jan. 3 our elite forces surgically swooped in by air, land and sea and arrested drug-lord dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife Celia Flores at their reinforced safehouse in Caracas.Some of the stiffest resistance came at home from our media and Democrat politicians.Trump had no right! He didn’t notify or consult with Congress! (You may remember then-President Biden upping the reward money for Maduro’s arrest to $25 million in January 2025.)It was an abduction! A breach of international sovereignty!A violation of the UN Charter on use-of-force!It’s an oil grab!!He has no plan!Oh, the chaos, the peril to the world economy!So what has happened since?The New York Times recently complained Maduro is being kept at “a troubled Brooklyn jail . . . one of the United States’ most notorious federal lockups.”But few others can deny the wave of positive news out of Venezuela in the wake of that historic Jan. 3 raid.Delcy Rodrígues, Venezuela’s Vice President under Maduro, became the interim leader.She initially criticized Trump for “kidnapping” Maduro but changed lanes after a long January 14 phone call with him.Both Trump and Rodrígues said the call cemented their relationship.She described it as “long, courteous and productive” and said she wants to have a “balanced and respectful relationship” with the U.S.They discussed oil, minerals, trade and security - how to guide Venezuela to stability and growth.Trump described it as a great call and said the new leader is a “terrific person.”Since then Rodrígues has replaced Maduro’s top military and defense leaders with her own.She has released more than 600 Venezuelan and foreign political prisoners incarcerated by the previous dictatorship and has enacted a larger amnesty program for those imprisoned by the regime since 1999.She has secured deals for sales of Venezuelan crude to the U.S. and elsewhere, which has had a half-billion in proceeds already flowing in.That’s a drop in the bucket of what Venezuela’s vast oil reserves will mean to them and the rest of the world still thirsting for fossil fuels. (And no Strait of Hormuz!)Rodrígues has settled into her role, in recent days publicly celebrating Venezuela’s huge fishing industry and calling for environmental responsibility.Yes, it’s early yet. She wasn’t called “La Tzarina” for nothing.And it remains unclear what roles her government will have for Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Cornina Machado, who organized opposition to Maduro’s regime, and the duly elected president in 2024, Edmundo González Urritia, who was cheated out of his overwhelming victory by the old regime that was toppled on January 3.Overall, all this is pretty dang positive, right?What a turnaround for this potentially healthy and wealthy nation that had been crippled and terrorized for decades by its bloodthirsty socialist dictator.I think it’s huge, great news, even if you have to read all about it in the foreign press, since most of ours seem busy trying to stop similar changes in Iran and Cuba.