Jesus Loreto, an attorney representing Tomeu Vadell, one of six U.S. oil executives jailed for three years in Venezuela, shows a letter written by Vadell, in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020. In the letter provided exclusively to The Associated Press on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020, Vadell pleads for freedom, reflects on his past and shares the pain he feels over being separated from his wife, three adult children and a newborn grandson he's never held.
“Before living this tragedy, these celebrations were very special times for our family,” Vadell wrote, saying he embraced the traditional American holiday after moving in 1999 from Caracas to Lake Charles, Louisiana, for a job with Venezuelan-owned Citgo. “Now, they bring me a lot of sadness.” They’re charged with embezzlement stemming from a never-executed proposal to refinance some $4 billion in Citgo bonds by offering a 50% stake in the company as collateral. Maduro at the time accused them of “treason.” They all plead innocence.
“The Citgo case has developed normally during all the stages established by the Venezuelan criminal process,” the statement said. “In the next few days we’ll know the verdict.” He didn’t win their freedom, but days later two of them — Cárdenas and Toledo — were freed from jail and put in house detention. Two weeks later, the long-delayed trial began.
It’s not clear what approach Biden will take toward Maduro. Trump aggressively pressed to remove Maduro through sweeping financial sanctions and the U.S. Justice Department has indicted Maduro as a “narcoterrorist,” offering a $15 million reward for his arrest. The five other men did not respond to invitations The Associated Press made through their lawyers to comment.
WOOOOOOOOO LETS GOOOOOOO
Owned
Sounds like a classic case of don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.
Don't do the crime if you can't do the time Or if you think you're just going to buy your way out of trouble, maybe keep your criming small scale
There should be a special op to free our true Americans. Venezuela you better step up to your position before it is taken away!
note that the business meeting was literally to sort out a deal that was meant to defraud venezuela of millions after an anticipated coup (which failed, lol)
Lol, sucks to suck
Yessss bwuahaha
Based Venezuela 😎
good
*The Associated Press: Venezuelan Judges Ruling Of Certain Citgo Employees / GREAT JOB !!!!!!!
Probably deserve more. The oil industry is a corrupt hell hole that's killed millions, and US oil in particular has caused multiple wars. They've profited off that. 8 years sounds quite lenient.
Nice!
Shouldn't have done all those crimes, then.
Some good news at last.
Maybe they can link up with those operators planning a coup a d plan an escape on a broken skidoo or something
Lured
Lmfao “lured”
Wow. Great news! Much love and support to Venezuela and this great judge! We need more good news like this! 3
Hell yeah
This story makes me happy.
'Our coup guys got busted' 😓😓😓
This an absolute joke of a case. With Venezuela being in the (shithole) state that it’s in with no finances lures (and kidnaps) then arrests them with no merit. Total extortion and a complete breakdown of law and order. They deserve to be free. I blame Trump too
KareemRifai 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
I do not trust Venezuela, our Government should be looking into this. Let us not just assume that this Is right. We owe it to our Americans to protect Citizens over Seas. Eight minutes in Jail in those Countries, is eight minutes in HELL.
They missed a few.
'Houston-based Citgo refining company, which is owned by Venezuela’s state oil company, PDVSA' Houston-based owned by Venezuela Insane how the US has Venezuela under economic embargo.
Trapped in America's Backyard.
No central park?
Oil executives are guilty of destroying the planet and our children's future. Arrest more oil executives.
Nice
Hell yeah
YO THAT IS SO FUCKING BASED!!!
Based
Lol
Lol. Also hilarious in this was Bill Richardson of Epstein fame going down to try and get them out. Too bad Venezuela couldn’t throw him in jail too.
Hell yes
UwU YAY!
Man this is so fucking good. LOLOLOL, luring them their with business promises. TheCarrotAndThe_StuckInJailForEight
based
Can we get passports for Epstein's prison guards?
Good
God this fucking rules. It's nice to have good news every so often.
Throw away the key.
good 😌
Collusion with mass murdering empire is a death penalty imo
Wait THE ONLY FEMALE OIL EXECS IN USA?! Now r in a foreign prison?!
dope
king shit
This is AMAZING 😍
Awesome
'Do the crime, do the time.' Isn't that what Americans say? At least Venezuela doesn't execute people for sleeping while black - at least, not that's ever been reported over here.
This is beautiful ♥️
that’s right
Isn’t communism wonderful? Young brains of mush, taught at government run schools, think socialism/communism is the cats meow-they don’t even understand why I am writing about communism relating to this article. Parents-homeschool. Don’t raise ignorant kids.
morgfair Good
morgfair What?
morgfair And the venezolanos in south florida all voted for trumpe ....
Fucking LOL.
based based based based
Based Venuzeula
That’s communism for ya!
Sounds great!
Amazing. This is just beautiful.
AP: Why is most of this article about the protestations of the convicted execs, without anything showing the evidence presented against them? How can you claim to provide a balanced reporting about this without providing that?
Good!
This is just poor reporting. Second hand point of view which recycles anti-leftist bullshit, catapulting freedom and innocence, and law and order into the sanctity of a foreign court. Yes, other nations have functioning courts and laws that must be closely honored. Surprise.
See if I wanted to avoid getting arrested for corruption in Venezuela, I just wouldn’t have done corruption in Venezuela. But I guess I’m just built different ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯
Fair and balanced reporting, huh?
Good
Great. Nice to hear when a country does this.
Huge win for ecosocialism!
They were dealing with Chavez Oil, thet knew what they were doing ! The risks you take for trying to make it big at the expense of dealing with communists !!!
oh nooooo
Lol
Ya love to see it
lmao owned
Sounds great, hope they get some more
Thanks for the good news!
this is awesome thank you Venezuela, please take more of them
Justice served
based. viva venezuela!
LESGOOOOO
Venezuela can have them. Do they want more? We have plenty.
LMAOOOOOOOOOO
got em
An outcome I don’t like?! That’s, uhhhhh, judicial terrorism
This is “litty”
Do Exxon next.
Good. Sounds like Venezuela is holding executives responsible for crimes more than the US will ever.
Excellent!
🤔
😂😂😂 Let them pay the penalty for their grasping destruction of nature. The world needs more of this.
I hope they do it more
Hey, rest of world, get on this train of arresting American criminals. We can’t do it ourselves because we put them in charge.
Lol cool
Whatapityonyou Just so incredibly good.
Nice.
Based
Nice to see at least one government willing to hold these monsters to account for the lives they’ve destroyed, and the death of the planet.
Classic 'come pick up your free boat' move.
CITGO the fuck?!
Best news I’ll read today
Kiss billionaire ass much? So much billionaire victim stance shit here that it's difficult to even finish reading.
Let’s rescue them with money or some other way!
This flies in the face of the deeply held American belief that oil executives should get to do whatever they want and never face any consequences whatsoever
G. O. O. D. Frankly, sounds like a lenient sentence.
I hope they rot
shouldn't have done corruption i guess?
Should have been Biden
Should t have broke the law
Based
Just 8 years?
lmao owned
Maybe don’t do international crimes? I don’t know.
Yes. Good.
lmao I like how the western press prints sob stories whenever imperialist goons receive an ounce of justice
Oh shit based
LIGHT. THEM. UP.
Lol owned
Venezuela is based
The spin of this article!
That's what they get.
Nice
Ouu do chevron next
let's fucking go
That’s a good start, how about setting up some meetings for a few insurance executives next?
🙌🙌🙌 im so happy to hear this
Huh wild. So what the meeting about exactly 🤔
Execute them for meddling in other countries
Good l, let em rot
This is just beautiful 😍
Not bad Venezuela. Not bad.
Love it!
this article needs more details of the case and the crimes and less boohoo sob stories about what Thanksgiving means to them
Having a hard time giving a shit about this one
owned
NICE
Good.
Have you tried not being corrupt?
ReaganGomez I should care why How many other countries are we supposed to dictate how their justice system works
My sympathy is approximately zero. You might not have noticed, but the planet is boiling and it's oil's fault.
Got ‘em
Lmao get fucked
amazing 💖
Nice
You have my permission to double it to 16 years.
Yet Chavez’s daughter is VNZ’s Ambassador to the UN. 😂😂😂 the hypocrisy there!
oh my god they don't even have a real picture of the guy they had to hold up an ipad in their little crucifix corner
But... But... we just wanted to profit off your land's resources and labor for freeee 🥺👉👈
😂😂😂😂😂, hand them over to iran
That fucking rocks lmaoooooo
😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
lol
🤣🤣 Sheer genius . . were they classmates of tRump at Wharton College?
batfazturd Oil executives? KEEP 'em in prison for LIFE.
Good.
lol owned
i_am_joli_anne 👏👏👏
Venezuela putting criminals in prison. I don’t see a problem with that.
GenieOil JaredKushner
Sick lol
Lol rad
Christmas came early
Good
Sounds like it is way past time we took the Socialist Regime out in Venezuela. Oh wait, we voted for it here apparently.
lol
Christmas has come early this year.
WeAreDrilled 👆🏻
Oh no... not our oil execs... 🥱
lol get owned lib
Best place for them
This fucking rules
I’ve read about this and think it is despicable how they were ordered by their employer to travel to Venezuela under a ruse of “business meeting” to only be arrested and thrown in jail. If I recall, the corruption accusations were sketchy to begin with.
They most likely were guilty.
hello, epic department. I would like to make a claim.
Based
Best fucking news I've heard all week
Welp
This is a good morality tale to tell your children. People often end up where they belong eventually
Now do the rest since we won’t Venezuela
Lol nice
Cool. Hopefully they can lure some more corrupt execs there!
Hahahaaa that owns
Hell yeah
Nice
If you can't do the time, don't do the crime
L
Guilty!
Nice 😎
lmao awesome
👍👍👍
Based
The US used to try crimes against foreign companies too until John Roberts and Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co that is
Love this
Outsourcing is often more effective nowadays.
The left's plan for America
....Corruption...
lol
What were they 'lured' by, AP? Are you contending this is some Willie Horton scenario staged at the level of international geopolitics?
You say it like it's a bad thing.
Good!
How do you lure executives to another country? Promise them some dirty shit and let their greed take over. It’s about time these mother fuckers are getting punished for destroying the planet.
that's almost as cold as tricking people with bench warrants into turning themselves in for a new tv
Finally! Something to to be thankful for
Good for them!
//Some relatives had been bracing for the disheartening outcome, which came on the evening of Thanksgiving Day.// Perfect timing. 🤩
They’re gonna try to do a coup over this to get the Venezuelan people’s oil and resources, aren’t they? The people of the US know no shame.
Hopefully the beginning of something wonderful!
That’s awesome!
Amazing. Congratulations to the Venezuelan people for completely styling on these parasites. Please arrest the rest of them.
Nice
Hey they thought they could go out there and screw with Venezuela's oil and money, so I have 0 sympathy. They got what they deserve. Lock them all up.
Imagine if we in the USA would do the same to these murderous psychos.
Greed
haha owned
Sick
lol owned
Crimes against humanity. Maybe Venezuela can imprison all of the U.S. capitalist criminal cabal.
File under: things for which to give thanks. Also: hey international imperialists—maybe stop criming
Solidarity_Star Oil executives deserve worse
YUP! That is the way SOCIALISM/COMMUNISM works.
- Doesn't seem to be much discussion of the charges and evidence here. Just romanticization of the defendents and demonizing of Venezuela. So, basically, exactly what I've come to expect. -
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i hope they come out of jail as degraded shells of their former selves!!
Neat trick. Other nations should employ it to get US criminals to justice. Obviously they're stupid enough to just show up by themselves.
Aww. Let me dig deep, and look for sympathy for corrupt rich people. Nope. Can't do it.
Good.
badass
This fucking rocks
Annnnd this is exactly what the democrats want America to become
😎 👍👍
Luring criminals into traps then giving them due process is nothing. Ask the countless people extraordinarily rendered without trials to dark sites by the United States.
K...
Wish we would do that here instead of letting these people get away with murder.
chat shit get banged
It's like bait car, but way better!!!
Hahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahaha. This was the pick-me-up I needed today.
I love this song
ARE OIL EXECUTIVES EVER REALLY INNOCENT? 🤔
Guess they shouldn't have been corrupt oil executives. Shame we don't hold people responsible for their corruption in the US.
look how easy it is
Lool
lol this owns
This made me smile ....
Good
B A S E D
How can anyone be happy about this? The Venezuelan dictatorship corrupt to the bone, sentencing US citizens to long term prision terms by the corrupt Venezuelan courts that sold their souls to rob democracy from the Venezuelan people!
Imagine If every non-violent drug offender with an unfair trial got an AP report like this...
lol owned
This is so wrong!!!
Another Twitter thread proving bullies are illiterate
👍🏻😌👍🏻
Belo e moral
Based. Well done, Maduro :)
Get their ass!
Based
Nice!
ahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha get fucked
American courts would fine the Citgo corporation.
haha GET FUCKED
Don’t do the crime if you can’t handle the time
This what this country can look forward to.
Lmao owned
Excellent
hell yes
When will America start jailing CEOs whose companies break the law? Is the outrage because they are American? Or because they're CEOs? Maybe the oil?
Venezuela is doing what the rest of the world should
Lmao owned
This rules
Get their asses
I'll just do the American special, sending out thoughts and prayers. Hope it helps.
8 años? Nojoda.....tan poquito......stás leyes del país son tan blandengues!
Nice.
Good. Please leverage the greed of these barely human husks so that more of them can end up where they belong.
fuckin sick
damn that rules
Let them rot
Now get the rest of them :)
Owned
World's smallest violin.
Corrupt Capitalists Convicted! I love it! I'm an American and I approve this message. 👍
Lol
hell yeah
After reading this .....Am I supposed to feel bad for these people? ...... I say good 👏👏👏✊
If you don't want American oil executives to go to prison in Venezuela, the obvious solution is to send them to prison in America.
loooool
Nice propaganda article, AP. Weird how we only get one side of this story, and it's laced with emotive words like 'lured' and 'purge', and the POV just happens to be that of the super-wealthy corrupt oil executives. No quotes from the judge, or mention of harsh US sanctions.
And a single tear ran down my eye. Nope. That was allergies..nevermind
pomobobomofo Lol awesome
'Give me freedom or give me... Uh...'
Throw away the key
pomobobomofo lol good
Finally some good fucking news
Good vibes all around!
So like the USA? Good for them
This is what happens when Leftism runs amok.
Too light of a sentence but I'll take it.
A play out of Prince MbS's book.
Could you have provided more facts on the wrong doings instead of romanticizing the criminals?
:) ❤
They missed a few keep'em coming.
LEORespecter Owned
Good
Stoked!
lmao byyyyeeeee
'What are you thankful for this year, Dan?'
Based
'Former Venezuelans caught embezzling' Just does not have the same ring.
Beautiful. Just..
Good
Good for Venezuela. About time other countries use what ever it takes to stop the greedy Americans from taking what is rightfully not theirs. Maybe next time Million dollar executives will think twice about defrauding another country for its riches.
ahahhahahahahahahahahahahah
Hell yeah
Isn't that the kind of shit the CIA does?
Checkmate
Law and order!
Neat
JENFL23 Never waste a good opportunity for some empire framing.
lol. Maybe when they’re done serving time, they can realize the errors of their corrupt ghoulish ways.
Where can I donate to make sure this keeps happening?
Richardson, 'who has negotiated the release of other Americans held by hostile governments, traveled to Caracas in July and met with Maduro.' Richardson: Freedom House, Chair Genie Oil & Gas, board dir Rothschild, Cheney
So these six folks went to ANOTHER Country to commit crime and we're supposed to feel sorry for them?
Good!
This is a long article that doesn't mention the charges. Why not?
This is wonderful
Wonderful news let them rot in prison 👍
👏👏👏 Well done the people of Venezuela ✅ They defeated the U.S states attempt to install its handpicked puppet ✅ Repelled a CIA backed incursion into Venezuela ✅ They have now arrested & convicted in a court of law those trying to steal the countries resources
LMAO 🤣😂🤣😅😂😂😅🤣😅🤣
🤘
Wellbye.gif
Thank you Venezuela?
Sucks to suck
PRANK'D!
lets see some more of this please and thank you
Pretty cool
Man this makes Venezuela look good
Good, they deserve it. They're obviously corrupt.
I would have given them the electric chair, but that's just me.
lol
Lol got 'em
We're the planeteers You can be one too Cause saving our planet is the thing to do
Time to send the drones and end the drug cartel dictatorship.
this rules, glad to see venezuela continue to rack up moral Ws
Fuck yes
Nice
This is why all judges are politicians. They fear international law and will protect themselves over the will of the people.
🤷♂️
Lol awesome!
'Just follow the law' isn't that what you pro-cop troglodytes always say? Don't do crimes, I guess.
Good.
GOOD!!!!! THANK YOU VENEZUELIAN JUSTICE SYSTEM
oh hell yes
👍🏾
That rules
PissJugTycoon He'll yeah
Well done Venezuela. More oil executives should be sent there for “business meetings”
Insanity. They should be released back home immediately. usembassyve
EZ, and I might be so bold as to add, Clap
fucking keep 'em
YES! YES!! YES!!!
wait you can send corrupt corporate execs to jail?
Fuck yes
More, please
Nice
owned
'Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, who has negotiated the release of other Americans held by hostile governments, traveled to Caracas in July and met with Maduro.' Oh cool well they must be innocent if a guy in the Epstein flight logs is trying to bail them out.
All that really matters here is, are they guilty? If so, then this is a good-news story. If not, where’s the exonerating evidence?
Ah fuck ‘em...
Remember Republicans apologized to BP for Democrats mentioning they had fouled the entire Gulf of Mexico with their oil spill
JENFL23 They look do angry.... Would any of you like a foot rub?
wow this rules
Could they lure my 4th grade teacher?
Good for Venezuela if only it's more than 8 years
Now do the rest of them.
lmao owned
I was having such a bad day. But then I saw this. Thanks.
🤙sick we should try that here 🤙
AP is an imperialist outfit, disgraceful
based
Keep 'em Venezuela, thanks for taking out our trash
To any other American oil execs: I’ve got a well to sell you in Venezuela, get down there ASAP please!
Socialism doing what capitalism can't.
🤣🤣🤣👍👍
nice
Not sure why anyone thinks this is funny. . . They only got six of them.
Haha hope they are imprisoned for the rest of their lives
HAHAAAA Nice
Based Venezuela!
Love to see it
I did some digging and found the official Venezuelan Ministry of Interior plans for this operation:
NateArsenic This happened 3 years ago and I feel like it hasn’t gotten a lot of attention. Surprisingly.
oh no
Oops!
Based venezuela
so shines a good deed in a weary world
Lmaooo they don't deserve freedom. They deserve to rot a hell of a lot longer than 8 years.
hell ya
🙏 blessed 🙏
Nice
happy new year in advance
give me a mfing break ' They had been lured to Venezuela ',....
Lol
greg06897 Checked the comments for more info & remembered this is not reddit
Hey MAGA2020 where y’all at Isn’t this why your CultLeader was put in place? To rid the world of corruption? How come y’all ain’t talking about this TheStormIsComing -isn’t this what y’all been saying? Kraken 🙄🙄
They’re oil executives. Of course they’re guilty. Boo hoo.
Owned
Yikes!
It's refreshing that there are countries that put crooked executives in jail instead of finding work for them as cabinet secretaries.
Those executives were no angels..
Thank god that they aren't untouchable somewhere on this world. They would have got off scott free in the US, god knows how many criminal executives are on the loose there.
God, I love waking up to good news for once.
Haaaaa, Yes Indeed💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾
lol
Lmao that rocks
The amount of people cheering this is pathetic. Venezuela is the bad guys. Oil companies aren't saints, but these people were just doing their jobs. Believe in America. Believe in our moral authority. We aren't perfect, but we are better than most others.
Damn, sounds like the American justice system could learn a thing or two from Venezuela
Where is the director of HR!?
Lmao they had it coming
Cool story
owned
hahahahahahahahahahahah fucking owned
Sturgeons_Law Woah something cool happened
Considering what major Oil Companies have done over decades in South America via pollution, fouling land & poisoning waters ? With no intention of any vague attempts at either cleanup or recompense ? NO SYMPATHY.
Good riddance
Thankful
can't do the time, don't do the crime
lol owned
lmfao owned
👍👍
Lmao rot you rats
I’m no fan of the Venezuelan govt, but shouldn’t we hear their side of the story and see the evidence?
Fuck yea Venezuela.
RealAlexRubi But they are actually Venezuelan oil executives working for the Venezuelan company Citgo in the US who also happen to have dual US citizenship, right?
They can beg all they want, but let them rot in jail. Selfish people there to steal the wealth of Venezuela children.
'lured'?
Shit you love to see lmao
This is wonderful news thank you for reporting it 🤗
Cool!
so sick
Not the oil executives!
Got em
nice
🎶loving every minute of it🎶
😩😩😩
Unfortunate that relations between the two countries have been harmed due to the hegemonic policies of leaders. Hope that these will be rebuilt by the new US administration.
Nice! More of this, please.
This rocks
Ah yes. Dreadful business, this
🔥🔥🔥
Dammit, where'd I put my tiny violin?
This time it’s 100% deserved. YouLoveToSeeIt
This is one of those things that we love to see
Nice
This is hilarious and good
wow that rules
Best news I've heard all day!
Screw the oil executives.
Good
If they did the crime they should do the time.
Haha owned
Gotta admit, i like the idea of prison abolition, but this made me hard
Hell yea
lol awesome
Now do Bezos.
JENFL23 Cool 👍
A little lenient on the sentencing tbh
lmfao
Good. All oil execs should be locked up
You love to see it
Wonderful!
Bye bye
Venezuela: crushed by a US led sanctions regime and still holding more CEOs accountable than Barack Obama
Hell yeah. I mean 8 years sounds kinda light.
Only 8 years? Seems awfully lenient.
Loooooooooool, in the bin
Their imprisonment is an international crime, being committed by a criminal regime.
cool
JENFL23 Eight years? We lock dudes up for weed longer than that...
Keep going Venezuela
Good!
This rocks
LAW AND ORDER!
awesome!
GOOD!!
Hell yes
Ha!
owned gg
This rules and we should do that here in the U.S
Haha, no you do crime you go in the hole like the rest of us. Next time just don’t be a criminal, simple. Crime, time yadda yadda 😂
hrc lured into supporting trumps nomination in 2016. building 7 lured to the ground by wtc 1 & 2. W bush lured into invading Iraq. don't be lured by ap
lol
Good work holding them oil czars accountable for their crimes
Awesome! This shoukd happen more often.
BASED
JENFL23 It’s a good start. But plenty fossil company criminals still pulling levers and screwing up our planet.
Incredibly cool and good
BlogWood Crazy how some countries actually punish corruption instead of just legalizing it
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
*laughs at everyone cheering this from the comfort of their lives made infinitely better because of oil and oil products*
get some
Epic
Guess they shouldn't have done the corruption..
Hell Yes.
Lured? Doubt that part.
Good. Can we do the same to CEOs of Amazon, Wal-Mart, AT&T, Berkshire-Hathaway, etc? Please?
Heckin' dope!
Haha hell yeah god damn
wrekt
Lol
'Lured to Venezuela...' This looks more like a propaganda piece than actual reporting, but it's the Associated Press. It's not the first time. Won't be the last.
The crux of King's 'Letter from the Birmingham Jail' was that an unjust law is not a law. I really, really doubt that's the case here.
Based Venezuela
lmaooooo
Finally some great news! We have to hold these people accountable or else they will keep fucking over us and the planet. Go Venezuela! US could learn a thing or 2
Nice
Lol owned
Good. We shouldn't be trying to steal their oil.
wrong, the correct thing would have been to kidnap them in their country and lock them up without charge or trial in a prison outside their territory, to be subjected to torture for years, right?
Damn. Bummer.
Fucking good
happy thanksgiving
Fucking recked
Spamps finally some good news
Lmao, owned.
They’re destroying the planet. They belong in jail.
Can we make it 10
This picture is stupid.
Poggers
Wow this is amazing hopefully they can charge more.
It appears that their meeting is running long..
Remind me why they’re the bad guys when they’re the ones willing to jail executives
Based
Nice.
Excellent!
Finally, some good news.
Good. If we won’t jail our criminals then I’m glad others will.
'lured' Is there some special whistle or bait you set out to lure oil execs? I bet it goes 'regime chaaaange!'
Aren't we going to find out that they were no angels and once smoked a weed drug and so anything that happens to them is fine and good?
hahaha owned
I thought justice was dead in this world
good lol
Good
Oil bro’s are like “no evidence, no crime” lol throw away the key.
If they are corrupt, just keep them. Ask em who they voted for! Dead give away
Lol owned
having a really hard time feeling bad about this
Keep those cvnts locked up America doesn't prosecute executives ask Obama he let every criminal who caused the financial collapse off Scotfree
Good
Nice. Keep em
lol this rules
Some of the best news I could have gotten on Thanksgiving, thank you.
Good
Genius! Way to go, comrades in Venezuela!
Wholesome ❤️
The one on the left looks kinda like Tina Fey 😂
Extortion. Send in the military.
Do it again, please
lmao
Beautiful
poggers
Arrest the others too imho
lol hope they rot
No idea if corrupt Venezuela has the goods, but we need more white collar crimes pursued for real jail time. Let's start with Pharma firm, Perdue and see where we end up
Lol throw away the key!
Lol
Oh yea
lol this rules
All fossil fuel executives and the politicians they bribe into inaction on climate - they should all be in prison
Maduro sent them letters that said they won a boat and they just had to come down to Venezuela to claim their prizes.
I would like to add something. There is no attempt by the article writer to actually contact the authorities in Venezuela for this story it is either reported from the perspective of their loved ones or in a semi slanted neutral tone. How is that journalism?
Hell yeah that rocks lol
✊ How do I make that bigger?
U see this shit ? AOC
Lmao
Mkay
Good
If you truly cared about these Americans, you wouldn't have let John Bolton conspire with them to overthrow the government of Venezuela.
Our government tricks students to arrest them, theirs, oil scumbags. I say good for them.
lol owned
Lololol
more than 8 years? the more the merrier
I hope this catches on!
This rocks.
Maradona’s spirit lives on
all oil executives should be in prison
“The so-called Citgo 6” lol feelin thankful
heres hoping for executions next
Damn has the US ever done this?
Keep it up Maduro! Great stuff.
Hahahaha seeya losers
Sounds cool
lets go.
Good.
Venezuela rules now
hell yeah
owned. idiots
Beautiful.
Let em rot
justice is served
That rules, man
lmfao what a brilliant operation
Owned
lol owned
beautiful.
Works for me
Good, fuck em.
love to show a picture of 3 white women when everyone arrested were men
This is great news thank you
If y'all think we finna feel sorry for an mf OIL EXECUTIVE you're out of your damn mind
Law and Order achieved ☺
This is a bad thing, why exactly? Did they or did they not break the law?
That rules.
Oil executives? Must be innocent.
Hell yeah
Not seeing a problem here. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time!
yeah idk if this is like iraq taking babies out of incubators in kuwait or what, so much neo-liberal disinformation it's hard to separate fact from fiction
Hahaha, GOOD.
If I wanted to be free I simply wouldn't do crimes for money
lmao
They probably deserved it.
😂 😂 😂 😂😂😂 😂😂😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂😂😂 😂 😂 😂 😂😂😂
This sucks because I don’t like American oil execs, but I do like corruption
LMAO
We should follow their example and arrest some oil execs in America!
lol nice
If you can't do the time,
They are oil exec's, I don't care!!
Don't do the crime if you can't do the time
this is climate action
oh no those poor oil executives
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
haha nice
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!
Good news.
*Chefs kiss with a hand the size of the entire Milky Way* Life comes at you fast huh?
Just a sec, checking my sympathy for the people actively killing a habitable planet. Nope. Fuck 'em.
Righteous!
lol sweet
Hey found something to be thankful for
nice 😃
They are part of the corruption. They are lots of those corrupt oil executives living in Miami.
Nice 👍
Gotem
heck they should schedule more meetings there until they got ALL oil executives venezuela get things done
LAW AND ORDER!
Are you guys simping for a Venezuelan coup? Oil executives aren’t typically very good humans
Real shame. You hate to see it.
OWNED
This actually owns
Poggers... People actually going to jail for corruption!
what a thanksgiving gift this is, how wonderful
buh bye
Lol owned
All TRUMPS LAWYERS NEED TO LOSE THEIR LICENSE FOR FRAUD AND FALSE CLAIMS!
Lol
Cool
lol
Guess they should have just obeyed the laws
Good.
TFW you're so used to your country buying off other countries for you, you forget that foreign laws are something you actually have to follow.
this is based and anyone that cares about oil executives is cringe
Poggers
Uh, good? Why is this even a story lol
That’s awesome
Good. They should be in prison.
hell ya
As we like to say in the US, if you don't want to go to jail just don't do crimes. Easy
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Can they lure some health insurance and pharmaceutical executives too?
Owned
finally, some good news!
Owned
RealSteveCox Sending love from New York to Venezuela.
admiral_baby 6 down, ? to go
Nice
Lol good they deserved worse Frankly. Venezuela let em off light
Things you just absolutely love to see
Maybe we should send trump down there for a business meeting.
Huh, seems pretty just to me
I mean, are there any oil executives that aren't corrupt?
the system works. Viva Bolivar! Viva Maduro!
On one hand this does sound fishy On the other hand, they're oil executives, so they probably are guilty of something
leducviolet
Good
nice
what is the fitting punishment for the oil execs driving the human species to extinction, exactly? paying a fractional settlement decades after we‘re all dead?
Keep em
Might as well be TheOnion.
This is objectively good lmao
Lol
lol
hell yeah
Maybe they shouldn't have committed crimes.
Hahahahahahahaha
👏👏👏
good shit. brightens my day.
lol
Nice
got their asses
lol
In California, it would be 100 hrs community service. Why haven't we gone in and gotten them out?
Probably shouldn’t have gone there if they broke the law, huh
Have they considered to just not do crimes?
I know what I’m thankful for
Hell yeah
Those are his three wives
W
lmao
Can't believe venezuela lured those oil execs with an oil reserve underneath a large basket propped up by a stick attached to a rope held by maduro standing behind a bush. Tragic.
OLAASM It's where they belong =)
Lol
lol owned
Hahaha this rules!
it is what it is.
Hell yeah
lol
Hahahahhaha
Why did trump just attack the country and take it over as its an enemy of the United States? It fits his macho man theme it favors his friends with military contracts and saving Americans looks good on tv. Might have helped him in the election.
justice
lmao owned
lmao
Republicans still believe Venezuela is actually Socialist.
lol
That's just too bad. They should be serving longer sentences.
Lol
'lured'
lol
awesome. hope they rot there.
Poggers
nice
Cool
lol
Cool
Good
Phwewww! Offering up $4B in bonds backed by a 50% equity stake is a dangerous limb to be out on. Securities laws might not work in your favor.
cool and good
Lol owned
Business, corrupt power people to get the resources cheaper. Propaganda of cleaning. Let Venezuelan oil for Venezuelan people! Stop stealing countries, stop making misery. Stop business of misery!
Coming to a country near you thanks to our failed press corps.
Owned
good.
Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.
Do a prisoner swap for that guy that Chevron has locked up with private prosecutors
Eight years isn’t long enough. They gotta pump those numbers up.
finally some good news
👍🏾
We should arrest more oil executives for corruption.
Tight
Imagine being “lured to Venezuela for a business meeting”
So pimp
oh hell yes
Based
Hell yeah
lured by the prospect to do a corrupt
Lolz
Hell yeah lmao
Lmao owned
Incredible news!
i would simply not be a corrupt executive
Based
Wow, imagine if we could somehow arrest corrupt oil officials on America maybe we could really make the world a better place
This rules.
can we repeat this for the rest of the oil executives in america?
Sick, now lets do it at home too
Biden will fix that!!!
This is so awesome
That’s practically kidnapping. Somebody should do something.
Venezuela?
Owned
gonna visit another country? you’re under their rules now. owned
jailing oil executives: an idea whose time has come
lmao owned
W
Won’t someone think of the poor criminal oil executives
'News media and rights groups have been denied access to the hearings. There was no response to a letter addressed to Judge Lorena Cornielles seeking permission for The Associated Press to observe.' That does not sound like a transparent court system but OK..
AP already doing propaganda to invade Venezuela meanwhile I'm like:
Let them rot in jail
Poggers
Justice served
Be nice if our justice department went corrupt US executives.
Based
😂
There is no viable reason to not prosecute American oil executives, this is good fucking news
Based
Good!
Can anyone fill me in here? Seems Citgo is a US-based company majority owned by the Venezuelan government from which the US government steals all the profits by way of 'sanctions'...
Hell yeah
🙏🙏🙏God bless
LULW
sounds cool actually
I wish our government had the guts to do that, but its owned by people like that.
Every country should do this to every oil executive everywhere. For the corruption of lying to us about fossil fuels from the beginning.
Hey AOC can you help negotiate their release?
“Venezuela imprisons Americans for extortion purposes”
Sounds about right tbh
dope
At least someone is willing to jail oil execs
Awesome
sounds like justice was done
lmao bye bye!
pwned
Oil execs sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Oil execs reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
hell yeah
Omg, not our oil execs breaking the law. How could they?
Sure they deserve it.
That's fucked up. Look what socialism will make people do. It makes the government act tyrannically.
Poggers
Lol
this fuckin rules
Happy Thanksgiving
lol
It's a Thanksgiving miracle!
Let's get more of that going on in America!
This is so cool and good.
its just a little corruption while destroying the world! 🙄 overreact much?
owned
Hey imperialists,
Sturgeons_Law Nice
Oil executives huh,they were just waiting for Maduro to be overthrown to take over the oil industry in Venezuela,,,the coup failed badly
lol
😂
If this is legit. They'll be out in no time or face the consequences. There could be more to this we'll see.
Let’s hope Biden deals with this better the Burisma debacle
Stock up quick!
DemopJ
Good! They deserve it. Over the past 30 years the gross mismanagement of Venezuela has ruined what once was a great American company.
Whoa
Sturgeons_Law Lmao owned
This is scary and tragic and these are Americans, right? How can this be OK under American law?
What's the conservative sound bite again? 'If you can't do the time, don't do the crime.'?
Did the Venezuelan political officials and American politicians that looked the other way get arrested also?
OMG. Another propaganda story.
daggerandpen If I didn’t want to go to jail I would simply not be a corrupt oil exec
Sturgeons_Law lol nice
Have fun in jail Amy, Coney, and Barret!
good
Sturgeons_Law Owned
lol
Sturgeons_Law Owned
No. Stop them. Not our oil executives.
Sounds great!
Maybe stop criming?
More 👏 women 👏 in 👏 prisons 👏
good
Sounds like something Rudy would do.....
Thats an awful lot of crosses? Whats happening here? Are these women vampire hunters?
Baller
Thoughts and prayers lol
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