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Exclusive – Pollster: 92% of Venezuelans Thankful to Trump; Leftist Protests ‘Do Not Represent’ Them​


Frances Martel15 Jan 202691

Leftist protests in defense of imprisoned ex-dictator Nicolás Maduro “do not at all represent the Venezuelan people,” upwards of 90 percent of whom are grateful to President Donald Trump for Maduro’s arrest, Ruben Chirino Leañez, the CEO of the Venezuelan polling firm Meganálisis, told Breitbart News on Wednesday.

Meganálisis published a poll on Wednesday sampling public sentiment in every Venezuelan state and the Caracas federal district finding overwhelming majorities of people supportive of Trump’s action to arrest Maduro – wanted in the United States on narco-terrorism charges – and his wife Cilia Flores. The poll also found significant majorities of Venezuelans supporting America becoming the country’s principal ally and trade partner, the dismantling of the socialist security apparatus, and giving power to opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado.

Asked “Are you grateful to Donald Trump?” regarding the Maduro operation, which is not believed at press time to have harmed any civilians, 92.2 percent of Venezuelan respondents said yes. Another 6.3 percent opposed the operation, while only 1.5 percent said they did not know what to think.

Exclusive – Pollster: 92% of Venezuelans Thankful to Trump; Leftist Protests ‘Do Not Represent’ Them​

895https://media.breitbart.com/media/2026/01/Venezuelans-celebrate-in-Florida-1-640x480.jpgNicole Combeau/Bloomberg via Getty
Frances Martel15 Jan 202691
7:06
Leftist protests in defense of imprisoned ex-dictator Nicolás Maduro “do not at all represent the Venezuelan people,” upwards of 90 percent of whom are grateful to President Donald Trump for Maduro’s arrest, Ruben Chirino Leañez, the CEO of the Venezuelan polling firm Meganálisis, told Breitbart News on Wednesday.

Meganálisis published a poll on Wednesday sampling public sentiment in every Venezuelan state and the Caracas federal district finding overwhelming majorities of people supportive of Trump’s action to arrest Maduro – wanted in the United States on narco-terrorism charges – and his wife Cilia Flores. The poll also found significant majorities of Venezuelans supporting America becoming the country’s principal ally and trade partner, the dismantling of the socialist security apparatus, and giving power to opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado.

Asked “Are you grateful to Donald Trump?” regarding the Maduro operation, which is not believed at press time to have harmed any civilians, 92.2 percent of Venezuelan respondents said yes. Another 6.3 percent opposed the operation, while only 1.5 percent said they did not know what to think.

The survey also asked respondents if they felt intimidated into silence by the ruling chavista regime Maduro left behind, currently nominally run by “vice president” Delcy Rodríguez. Asked “Do you feel or believe that you could be detained if you manifest or express yourself publicly against chavismo?” 83.5 percent said yes, suggesting that even the 6.3 percent who denied feeling grateful to Trump may be an inflated number.

https://www.breitbart.com/latin-ame...trump-leftist-protests-do-not-represent-them/
 

Exclusive – Pollster: 92% of Venezuelans Thankful to Trump; Leftist Protests ‘Do Not Represent’ Them​


Frances Martel15 Jan 202691

Leftist protests in defense of imprisoned ex-dictator Nicolás Maduro “do not at all represent the Venezuelan people,” upwards of 90 percent of whom are grateful to President Donald Trump for Maduro’s arrest, Ruben Chirino Leañez, the CEO of the Venezuelan polling firm Meganálisis, told Breitbart News on Wednesday.

Meganálisis published a poll on Wednesday sampling public sentiment in every Venezuelan state and the Caracas federal district finding overwhelming majorities of people supportive of Trump’s action to arrest Maduro – wanted in the United States on narco-terrorism charges – and his wife Cilia Flores. The poll also found significant majorities of Venezuelans supporting America becoming the country’s principal ally and trade partner, the dismantling of the socialist security apparatus, and giving power to opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado.

Asked “Are you grateful to Donald Trump?” regarding the Maduro operation, which is not believed at press time to have harmed any civilians, 92.2 percent of Venezuelan respondents said yes. Another 6.3 percent opposed the operation, while only 1.5 percent said they did not know what to think.

Exclusive – Pollster: 92% of Venezuelans Thankful to Trump; Leftist Protests ‘Do Not Represent’ Them​

895https://media.breitbart.com/media/2026/01/Venezuelans-celebrate-in-Florida-1-640x480.jpgNicole Combeau/Bloomberg via Getty
Frances Martel15 Jan 202691
7:06
Leftist protests in defense of imprisoned ex-dictator Nicolás Maduro “do not at all represent the Venezuelan people,” upwards of 90 percent of whom are grateful to President Donald Trump for Maduro’s arrest, Ruben Chirino Leañez, the CEO of the Venezuelan polling firm Meganálisis, told Breitbart News on Wednesday.

Meganálisis published a poll on Wednesday sampling public sentiment in every Venezuelan state and the Caracas federal district finding overwhelming majorities of people supportive of Trump’s action to arrest Maduro – wanted in the United States on narco-terrorism charges – and his wife Cilia Flores. The poll also found significant majorities of Venezuelans supporting America becoming the country’s principal ally and trade partner, the dismantling of the socialist security apparatus, and giving power to opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado.

Asked “Are you grateful to Donald Trump?” regarding the Maduro operation, which is not believed at press time to have harmed any civilians, 92.2 percent of Venezuelan respondents said yes. Another 6.3 percent opposed the operation, while only 1.5 percent said they did not know what to think.

The survey also asked respondents if they felt intimidated into silence by the ruling chavista regime Maduro left behind, currently nominally run by “vice president” Delcy Rodríguez. Asked “Do you feel or believe that you could be detained if you manifest or express yourself publicly against chavismo?” 83.5 percent said yes, suggesting that even the 6.3 percent who denied feeling grateful to Trump may be an inflated number.

https://www.breitbart.com/latin-ame...trump-leftist-protests-do-not-represent-them/
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If Maduro faced Machado in a free election tomorrow, the winner would be impossible to predict. Maduro how has rally-round-the-flag advantage. The whole Bolivarian Revolution now has that patriotic boost.
 
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