Already Almost Venezuela: The stupidity of another great right-wing scam

Published at: 16/09/2025 08:10 AM

With an intrigue campaign under the slogan “D-Day” in the evening of September 16, 2024, the extreme right-wingers María Corina Machado and Iván Simonovis launched the silver digital form “Almost Venezuela”, in alliance with the former US military and mercenary Erik Prince, in order to raise funds to finance a military intervention in the country.

After the defeat that the Venezuelan people inflicted on July 28 of that same year to Edmundo González Urrutia, with the re-election of President Nicolás Maduro; Machado, Simonovis and Prince, with the excuse of intervening in the country, through donations in dollars or cryptocurrencies, would supposedly allow them to buy weapons and pay mercenaries to violate the sacred soil of Venezuela.

“Squalid as you can hear me, a tun tun operation is coming for those who gave money there. This was told to me by a friend of mine who is a minister, who is carrying out a special operation to locate those who collaborated. That friend of mine already has the data,” said Diosdado Cabello Rondón during the Con El Mazo Dando program on September 26, 2024.

This trio (Machado, Simonovis and Prince) under the slogan “vote in dollars” played once again with their followers because “Almost Venezuela” was a scam, that is, “a robbery without a gun” as they say in Creole.

With their international media, they managed to raise more than a million dollars, according to Prince's statements, but there was no one to control the campaign; so everything points to the fact that the main actors pocketed that money.

“It's a double stupid thing: to let yourself be scammed so stupidly, but also legally. Almost Venezuela then also becomes a scam with consequences,” said analyst and communicator Miguel Ángel Pérez Pirela during an interview with the digital media La Iguana.com on September 26 of last year.

He stressed that the political consequences, in his opinion, once again deceived a sector of the opposition. “Although also with moral consequences, because they once again used the hope of people, of the unwary, to make money, all under the promise that we are going to invade Venezuela,” he said.

The truth is that it was another defeat for Machado, Simonovis and Prince because the international community didn't eat the story of Almost Venezuela, but rather buried the leaders of the Mayamera right and the country.

One year after this scam for the Venezuelan opposition, the Government of President Nicolás Maduro continues to stand with the people in defense of national sovereignty.

Mazo News Team