"Five days before the U.S. military launched a series of air strikes on northern Venezuela and a Special Forces unit armed with blowtorches broke into a Venezuelan military compound to kidnap that country's president and his wife, a group of shamans gathered on the Peruvian coast, imbibed hallucinogenic cocktails, and predicted that the Venezuelan president would be removed from office in 2026."
"Five days before the U.S. military launched a series of air strikes on northern Venezuela and a Special Forces unit armed with blowtorches broke into a Venezuelan military compound to kidnap that country's president and his wife, a group of shamans gathered on the Peruvian coast, imbibed hallucinogenic cocktails, and predicted that the Venezuelan president would be removed from office in 2026."
Five days before U.S. forces carried out military actions in northern Venezuela, a group of shamans gathered on the Peruvian coast, imbibed hallucinogenic cocktails, and predicted that the Venezuelan president would be removed from office in 2026. Five days later, U.S. military aircraft launched a series of air strikes in northern Venezuela. At roughly the same time, a Special Forces unit armed with blowtorches broke into a Venezuelan military compound to kidnap the president and his wife. The sequence links a coastal shamanic prediction with subsequent violent operations involving air strikes and an audacious ground abduction attempt.
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