#maduro-indictment

#maduro-indictment

These prediction markets, Polymarket and Kalshi being the two biggest ones, are Pandora's boxes. They lead to all sorts of potential problems, including the temptation of people who have sensitive inside information to then go use it and try to cash in.

Gannon Ken Van Dyke was part of the operation to capture Maduro in January and used his access to classified information to profit on the prediction market site Polymarket.

More than 600 people may be in custody for political reasons, one Venezuelan rights group estimates. Venezuela's acting president has signed into law an amnesty bill that could see hundreds of politicians, activists and lawyers released soon, while tacitly acknowledging what the country has denied for years that it has political detainees in jail. The law, signed on Thursday, in effect reverses decades of denials.