The General Who Can’t Be Fired Is Breaking Venezuela

2026-02-16 - 12:25

Key Points — Venezuela’s defense minister has held his post for nearly 12 years — and senior officers now openly want him gone after the military’s humiliating failure to stop the U.S. raid that captured Nicolás Maduro on January 3. — The acting government has reshuffled 28 military positions but left the top brass untouched,