A Second Venezuelan Whistleblower Admits the Country Is Run by a Drug Cartel, and Provided Software for Election Fraud in the U.S.

In a second extraordinary journalistic scoop, The Dallas Express released another letter from a former high-ranking official of the Venezuelan regime that President Donald Trump is trying to topple — partly to stop massive drug imports to the U.S., and partly to obtain hard proof of massive election fraud in America, using software originating in Caracas that has corrupted U.S. votes for almost 20 years. The letter reads, in part:

My name is Cliver Antonio Alcalá Cordones, retired Major General of the Bolivarian Armed Forces of Venezuela. I address you with respect and in a spirit of cooperation to share information that I consider relevant to the national security of the United States and to the understanding of criminal and political dynamics in my country that extend beyond its borders. I have been detained in the United States since March 2020, aPer voluntarily surrendering to agents of this country while in Colombian territory. I am currently held in a federal correctional facility in the state of Maryland, serving sentence after pleading guilty to two counts of having provided assistance to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). By following direct orders from my then-superior Hugo Chávez, I committed a huge mistake that I will regret for the rest of my life….

In the electoral sphere, Army General Carlos Quintero—a member of Venezuelan military intelligence—and current vice president of the National Electoral Council (CNE) has been responsible for committing electoral fraud. General Quintero was the engineer in charge of Venezuela’s Smartmatic electoral technology used to carry out the frauds. Most elections in Venezuela have been manipulated by Maduro’s government. I am aware of the use of parallel Smartmatic voting systems to alter results, especially in locations without opposition party representatives, making irregularities difficult to detect. This is the same technology used in other countries including USA by the company Smartmatic. [emphasis added]

Smartmatic’s software, critics have argued, was carried over by Dominion Systems which acquired the company, rendering U.S. elections vulnerable to massive manipulation.

Just think how much more evidence will end up in the administration’s hands if the Venezuelan regime collapses, as the U.S. is pushing hard to ensure. It’s tragic that we can’t reform our corrupt elections another way, but given the massive stake that most Democrats and many Establishment Republicans have in keeping crooked election machines in place, it may well be that regime change in a hostile foreign country is the only lever which Trump can actually pull without interference by politicized judges or complicit Deep State operatives.

A Second Stabbing on Charlotte Light Rail Sees Black American Hospitalized for Defending Old Lady from Illegal Alien

I wrote in September about the grotesque murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska by a violent mental patient released by a DEI-appointee judge. Now there’s another attack on the same Charlotte, N.C., rail line that claimed Zarutska’s life. This time the victim is a black American, and the alleged attacker an illegal alien who should have been deported long ago. The victim says he was defending an elderly woman whom the illegal was menacing. Headline USA reports:

A North Carolina judge on Monday ordered a Honduran man to be held without bond after he allegedly stabbed a man on a Charlotte train who was defending an old lady from him.

Oscar Solarzano, 33, wearing an orange jumpsuit and appearing via video link, listened impassively as a translator read charges of attempted first-degree murder, assault with a deadly weapon and others. Mecklenburg County District Judge Keith Smith scheduled his next hearing for Dec. 30….

Solarzano, also known as Oscar Gerardo Solorzano-Garcia, is charged with stabbing 24-year-old Kenyon Kareem Dobie in the chest during a fight Friday on the city’s Blue Line.

It was revealed in court that Solarzano — whose address listed in charging documents was a local homeless shelter — had been banned from Charlotte Area Transit Service property in October. CATS spokesman Brett Baldeck confirmed the ban, but did not have any further details. “Our security team is looking into this now,” Baldeck said.

The Department of Homeland Security says Solarzano had been deported twice and has previous convictions for robbery and illegal reentry, but details were not immediately available.

DHS, which recently conducted an immigration crackdown in Charlotte and around the state capital of Raleigh, has lodged a detainer with local authorities.

Of course, local authorities in blue states and cities are routinely refusing to honor such detainers, instead dumping violent illegals on the populace. According to The Dallas Express, Victim Kareen Dobie

told WRAL that he confronted Solarzano for yelling at an older woman.

“I guess it’s better off that it happened to me and not an older person,” Dobie told the station.

“I wasn’t trying to be a macho man,” Dobie said in a TikTok post from his hospital room. “But what I won’t allow is you to attack random people for no reason, especially the elderly.”

Dobie has launched a GoFundMe as he recovers.

New York City Government Now Hires Armed Robbers

Speaking of blue cities, how are things going in my home town, New York City, under the incoming Marxist jihadi Zohran Kwame Mamdani?

BREAKING: NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has chosen to appoint Mysonne Linen, a convicted armed robber, to be on his City Hall transition team.

You cannot make this up. pic.twitter.com/D3FKfWInpN

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 9, 2025

The New York Post offers more details:

Mysonne Linen, 49, a Bronx convict-turned-activist who was found guilty of two felony heists in the late 1990s, was appointed by the democratic socialist to sit on his mayoral transition’s “criminal legal system” committee — just one of many questionable picks.

“This is a testament to our decades of work advocating on behalf of black and brown communities and our expertise in gun violence prevention, legislative advocacy and criminal justice reform,” Linen boasted on Instagram last month after the position was announced. “We are building something different.”

Linen was a promising young rapper when he was convicted in 1999 for being part of a crew that robbed two cab drivers in the Bronx, the New York Daily News reported at the time….

Linen, who had faced up to 25 years behind bars, continued to deny he was involved and rebranded himself as a community activist following his release from state prison.

He spent years volunteering as a so-called violence interrupter and also founded Rising Kings, a non-profit group that teaches classes to inmates at Rikers Island.

Linen also partnered up with anti-Israel activist and adviser of Mamdani, Linda Sarsour, to found the group Until Freedom, a social justice activism organization.

Critics slammed his appointment to the 20-member “Committee on the Criminal Legal System,” which will advise Mamdani on criminal justice policies.

“It is both disheartening and deeply disturbing that individuals who are convicted felons and have a history of breaking the law are being given the opportunity to help shape the future of New York’s criminal justice system,” said Benny Boscio, president of the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association.

But remember, it’s Donald Trump and his supporters who are breaking civic norms and undermining the rule of law.

Why Is the Dept. of Justice Using a January 6 Inquisitor to Investigate the J6 Pipe Bomb Case?

We reported a few days ago about the long-delayed arrest of the suspect in the January 6, 2021, pipe bomb attack on both the Democrat and Republican national committees — after four years of stone-walling and willful coverups by the Biden DOJ. But all is not well in the supposedly Trump-controlled department, as a reporter from LindellTV pointed out to the president during a live press conference.

“Did the Pipe Bomber Act Alone?” – @POTUS Responds to Explosive Question from LindellTV

LindellTV’s @CaraCastronuova asked President Trump at a roundtable:

“What’s your gut instinct? Did the alleged J6 pipe bomber act alone? And why is the same DOJ prosecutor from the Proud… pic.twitter.com/zeO9D4SccL

— LindellTV (@RealLindellTV) December 8, 2025

The prosecutor charged with going after suspect Brian Cole, Jr., was apparently part of Democrat lawfare in 2021. Gateway Pundit reports:

Jocelyn Ballantine is a swamp creature somehow still employed by the DOJ. She played a massive role in the Proud Boy’s kangaroo court trial and putting them away for decades.

According to Proud Boy Enrique Tarrio, Ballantine literally put a piece of paper in front of him and asked him to commit perjury to save himself. She asked him to LIE and say President Trump knew the Proud Boys would be at January 6th and had communicated with Tarrio through Roger Stone. This turned out to be an unsubstantiated LIE and disproven. All three men did NOTHING WRONG.

Ballantine was also responsible for the police persecution of General Michael Flynn. Many in MAGA wonder why this person is still at the DOJ and handling another J6 case.

Why, indeed?

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John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.