Who Was Buying Venezuela?
Segment #734
For those of you not familiar with substack.com it is a censorship free platform where you can express your opinion without retribution. After reading this piece on Venezuela, I have just subscribed to Eko Loves You on this platform. "Tore" Maras (also known as Tore Maras-Lindeman or similar variants) is an American podcaster, author, political candidate, and self-described whistleblower prominent in conservative and alternative media circles. It is important to listen to diverse voices and Maras is certainly that.
Background and Claims
She claims a background as a former U.S. Navy veteran (with brief service), federal contractor, linguist, and intelligence operative who worked on projects involving psychological operations, election systems in foreign countries, and entities linked to figures like former CIA Director John Brennan. Maras presents herself as having turned whistleblower after participating in alleged rigged elections abroad and exposing similar issues domestically.
Public Activities
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Media and Documentaries: Featured prominently in the 2020 conspiracy-oriented documentary ShadowGate (and its sequel), where she and others alleged government use of psychological warfare and information operations against civilians. She hosts the syndicated Tore Says Show podcast (available on platforms like Rumble, iHeartRadio, and Substack), discussing geopolitics, election integrity, global governance, and conspiracy theories.
Political Involvement: Ran as an independent candidate for Ohio Secretary of State in 2022, focusing on election reform and criticizing the two-party system. She overcame ballot access challenges via court rulings but lost the election. Her campaign emphasized claims of widespread election fraud.
Election-Related Claims: Served as a confidential witness in Sidney Powell's post-2020 election lawsuits (the "Kraken" cases), providing affidavits alleging voting machine vulnerabilities and foreign interference. She has repeatedly claimed the 2020 election was stolen and promoted related narratives.
Controversies
Maras is associated with QAnon-adjacent theories, election denialism, and broader conspiracies (e.g., globalist networks like the "INGA" framework she coined for distributed governance). Critics, including mainstream outlets like AP News, Vice, and USA Today, describe her as spreading misinformation and label her a "QAnon grifter." She has faced legal issues, including a 2017-2020 North Dakota civil fraud judgment (default entered against her) related to an unlicensed charity event promising a holiday concert that never materialized.Current Presence (as of January 2026)She remains active on X (formerly Twitter) as
@idontexistTore
(bio: "Chaos Coordinator"), posting frequently about current events, politics, and her theories. She also publishes on Substack (toresays.substack.com) and authors books like the Digital Dominion series on control networks and manipulation.
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Her claims of intelligence work and whistleblowing lack independent verification in mainstream sources, and many are disputed or fact-checked as unsubstantiated. Supporters view her as a truth-teller exposing hidden power structures.
Her Name Was INGA: Venezuela and the War You Were Never Shown (that is everywhere)
“She” is everywhere and nowhere. “She” never signs her name, never takes the podium, never runs for office. “She” doesn’t overthrow governments—“She” reorganizes them.
Jan 03, 2026
Chaos is not the breakdown of the system. Chaos is the system operating as designed. What you are watching—across governments, economies, wars, elections, and institutions—is not failure, incompetence, or decay. It is coordination masquerading as disorder. At this scale, chaos does not emerge spontaneously; it is engineered, routed, financed, narrated, and maintained. Once you learn to read its patterns instead of its headlines, the illusion collapses, and a single truth becomes unavoidable: none of this is accidental.
I’ve watched this pattern long enough to know it isn’t theory. It’s method.My handle on X is Chaos Coordinator, and I wear it deliberately. I don’t pretend chaos isn’t happening—I map it, track it, and connect its patterns. I pride myself on coordinating chaos in the only way that matters: by observing how it is manufactured, routed, financed, justified, and repeated across borders. That is precisely why I’m qualified to speak about the global disorder we’re living through, because once you follow the money, the narratives, and the timing, it becomes impossible to believe any of this is accidental. Chaos at this scale requires planning, alignment, and maintenance—and I’ve spent enough time watching the machinery turn to know the difference between failure and design.
So let’s talk about CHAOS.
We begin domestically. Let’s take a look at U.S. tax dollars vanishing into programs no voter remembers approving, fraudulent structures that repurpose and launder funds from tax payers, funding structures no one can trace, and outcomes no one can audit. Look at governments collapsing without tanks in the streets, leaders replaced without ballots changing, revolutions branded as “movements,” and wars that never quite end—only pause long enough to be renamed peace. Look at treaties that change nothing, sanctions that hurt civilians instead of regimes, and aid that somehow returns richer to those who never needed it. None of this is random. None of it is incompetence. It all points back to one thing.
INGA.
“She” is everywhere and nowhere. “She” never signs her name, never takes the podium, never runs for office. “She” doesn’t overthrow governments—“She” reorganizes them. “She” doesn’t start wars—she manages instability. She doesn’t steal money—she allocates resources. When tax dollars disappear, “She” smiles and calls it complexity. When sovereignty erodes, she shrugs and calls it cooperation. When nothing improves and no one is accountable, “She” reminds you that the system is just too big to understand.
INGA thrives on deniability. “She” operates best when everyone agrees something is wrong but can’t quite agree on who did it. “She” disperses responsibility so finely that outrage has nowhere to land. Every disaster has a committee. Every decision has a process. Every process has a justification. And every justification points somewhere else.
“She” loves optics. Elections that change faces but not outcomes. Peace deals that make headlines while pipelines, debts, and dependencies remain untouched. Wars framed as humanitarian necessity, reconstruction framed as generosity, and influence framed as partnership. She ensures there is always motion—summits, conferences, agreements—so no one notices the direction never changes.
INGA doesn’t rule by force. “She” rules by exhaustion. By paperwork. By endless intermediaries. By convincing nations they chose this path themselves. By making citizens feel vaguely uneasy but powerless, sensing manipulation without being able to name the manipulator. “She” is patient. “She” doesn’t need you to believe in “her”. “She” only needs you to keep arguing with your neighbor while she rearranges the board.
This is why the chaos feels synchronized. Why crises stack instead of resolve. Why accountability dissolves the moment you reach for it. Because the problem isn’t left versus right, war versus peace, or spending versus saving. The problem is that INGA has learned how to govern without ever appearing to govern at all.
WHO or WHAT is INGA?
I refer to INGA as her for the same reason sailors name ships, nations speak of a motherland, and storms are given human names—not because the object itself has gender, but because doing so acknowledges agency, continuity, and intent. Giving INGA a feminine form allows the human mind to grasp and to sense what abstractions usually conceal: that this system moves, adapts, nurtures dependence, punishes disobedience, and survives its creators. Ships are called “she” because they carry lives, cross borders, enable conquest or trade, and outlive the hands that built them. INGA functions the same way. She carries policies, narratives, capital, and control across governments and generations, indifferent to who is steering at any given moment. By personifying her, we can finally stop treating the chaos as weather and start examining the vessel that keeps delivering it—because until you understand the architecture that moves beneath the surface, you will keep mistaking impact for accident instead of design.
Venezuela January 3, 2026
Who Was Buying Venezuela?
$17.3 trillion in oil reserves. Twenty-five years of evidence. Both heading to New York.
Jan 03, 2026
On December 28, 2018, when few knew her name, Tore Says sat behind a microphone and asked a question that would take 7 years to answer:
“Who is buying Venezuela in the United States?” (link)
Intelligence contractor. Pattern recognizer. Whistleblower.
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Tore identified INGA .Integrated Networked Governance Architecture. The invisible system operating above governments. Power distributed across nodes: international institutions, private foundations, development banks, NGOs, standards bodies, AI governance systems. Sovereignty outsourced before anyone notices it’s gone. Accountability evaporating because no single actor appears in charge.
Venezuela was its Western Hemisphere beachhead. CCP infrastructure. USAID parallel governance. Congressional financial capture. Foundation laundering networks. Dominion vote systems. All nodes in the same architecture.
January 3, 2026: architecture interruption.
While Maduro played dictator and CNN ran humanitarian crisis segments, American money was flowing into Caracas. The objective was acquisition.
US foundations were buying Venezuelan bonds, debt, equity, gold, and oil. Pennies on the dollar while the country collapsed into starvation. Members of Congress with financial stakes through careful proxies. Through humanitarian language.
Through the same laundering networks that have operated for 50 years.
Two months earlier, President Trump had signed an executive order prohibiting transactions with Venezuela’s oil sector.
Standard sanctions on the surface. Financial guillotine underneath.
The order severed Congressional money. Cut foundation stakes. Killed portfolios belonging to American politicians who publicly condemned the regime they were privately invested in.
Six years later, on January 3, 2026, Tore posted the receipt:
The Siege
For seven years, the world watched Venezuela collapse and called it socialism’s failure.
China had poured $60 billion into Venezuela. Oil-for-loans, infrastructure for access. Same playbook that gave Beijing control over African minerals. The CCP expected to own the Western Hemisphere’s largest oil reserves while using Venezuela as a hemispheric beachhead for money laundering, intelligence operations, and strategic positioning.
China was installing governance infrastructure. Smart city platforms. Surveillance systems. Payment rails. AI-enabled administrative systems that would make Venezuelan sovereignty conditional on Chinese hardware, updates, and cloud access. Once embedded, extraction becomes nearly impossible. You can change leaders. You can rewrite constitutions. But you cannot easily remove an AI governance layer without collapsing basic state functions.
Trump’s sanctions prevented installation from completing.
PDVSA couldn’t refine its own crude without American technology. Production collapsed. China’s loans stopped getting repaid.
By 2020, Chinese investment had quietly evaporated. Russia followed. Rosneft pulled out. Wagner Group maintained a skeleton crew for optics. Iran offered technical assistance but couldn’t bankroll anything.
The vacuum was engineered.
Seven years of systematic pressure. Cutting access to global markets. Severing financial networks. Making Venezuela toxic to every foreign power. The strategy: isolation forcing a choice.
While Trump’s first administration choked the regime, Samantha Power ran USAID like her personal State Department. She provided backdoor relief under a humanitarian banner that nullified Trump’s economic warfare. Keeping foundation investments viable. Maintaining Congressional stakes. Preserving CCP access through the same networks.
By 2025, Maduro was caught between colliding empires.
China viewing him as a failed investment. Russia treating him as an afterthought. Iran broke. USAID providing just enough relief to keep him breathing but not enough to save him.
Two choices: Continue serving masters who’d abandoned him, or flip.
He flipped.
Lights Off
At 10:46 PM Eastern, POTUS gave the order. “Good luck and Godspeed.”
Over four hours, 150 aircraft launched from twenty bases across the Western Hemisphere. The helicopters flew at 100 feet above water.
As they approached Venezuelan shores, the lights went out in Caracas.
“Due to a certain expertise that we have,” Trump said twelve hours later.
Cyber warfare. Space Command. Corridor of darkness through Venezuela’s air defense network.
At 2:01 AM Caracas time, helicopters descended into Maduro’s compound.
He was trying to reach his safe room. All steel. Heavy door.
He didn’t make it.
“Our guys were so fast. He made it to the door. He was unable to close it.”
One American helicopter was hit. All American aircraft came home. Zero casualties.
By 3:29 AM Eastern, the extraction force was over water with both indicted persons aboard.
At 2:01 AM Caracas time, helicopters descended into Maduro’s compound.
He was trying to reach his safe room. All steel. Heavy door.
He didn’t make it.
“Our guys were so fast. He made it to the door. He was unable to close it.”
One American helicopter was hit. All American aircraft came home. Zero casualties.
By 3:29 AM Eastern, the extraction force was over water with both indicted persons aboard.
Asset Recovery
“They stole our oil. We built that whole industry there, and they just took it over like we were nothing.”
“This constituted one of the largest thefts of American property in the history of our country.”
Read that again.
The largest theft of American property in the history of our country.
The math makes it real. Venezuela sits on 303 billion barrels of crude oil reserves. At current prices, that is more than $17 trillion.
Saudi Arabia: ~30 years of oil reserves remaining
Venezuela: 300+ years
The very crude that powers American military operations. The energy security China threatened to control. The strategic asset Biden’s administration was prepared to concede.
In twelve hours, the United States secured control of energy reserves worth four times the GDP of Japan. Reserves worth more than the entire economy of almost every nation on Earth. Energy reserves the CCP spent twenty-five years trying to capture through debt diplomacy.
Most people do not realize how much the world just changed.
“We’re going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition,” Trump announced. “We’re not spending money. The oil companies are going to go in... We’re going to take back the oil that, frankly, we should have taken back a long time ago.”
The Vice President of Venezuela, who Maduro appointed, just sworn in as acting president, had a long conversation with Secretary Rubio this morning.
“She’s essentially willing to do what we think is necessary to make Venezuela great again.”
Make Venezuela Great Again.
Trump applies the same principle to Venezuela he applied to America. Every nation deserves governance for its own people rather than foreign networks. Sovereignty as antidote to infiltration. Venezuela’s turn.
The Manifest
March 2020. Southern District of New York unsealed: United States v. Nicolás Maduro Moros.
Twenty-five years cocaine trafficking. Thousands of tons imported. Diplomatic passports for traffickers. Money laundering through Mexico.
The indictment proves the predicate. Drug trafficking. Money laundering. State-sponsored narcoterrorism.
Indictments name the sellers while omitting the buyers.
For twenty-five years, billions in cocaine proceeds had to be washed. Integrated into global financial system. Turned into bonds, real estate, campaign contributions, foundation endowments.
Maduro is heading to deposition.
“Right now, they’re on a ship. They’ll be heading to, ultimately New York.”
USS Iwo Jima. En route to SDNY. With filing cabinet.
Which foundations bought the bonds. When. Through which proxies. Which Congress members had indirect stakes. How much Petróleos money flowed to Washington. How USAID funds got laundered back while Samantha Power claimed humanitarian mission. How CCP money moved through the same networks purchasing Congressional influence and energy access simultaneously.
The evidence regarding voting systems created to produce altered election results in Venezuela for Hugo Chávez, then exported internationally.
The Dominion origin story Sidney Powell described in 2020?
Names. Dates. Transactions. Wire transfers. Foundation documents. Congressional proxies. CCP payment routes.
All heading to Southern District of New York. Where Maduro’s indictment is already unsealed. Where foundation money becomes traceable. Where Congressional corruption becomes discoverable. Where CCP infiltration becomes documentable. Where everything becomes admissible.
The Template
Venezuela is proof of concept.
Chaos Coordinator@idontexistTore
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Seven years later, filing cabinet heading to New York. Template set.
Paraguay next? Old Bush family infrastructure. Triple Frontier. CIA ratlines that became drug routes.
If Venezuela was the CCP’s Western Hemisphere front door, Paraguay is the back door.
Cuba watching. “If I lived in Havana and I was in the government, I’d be concerned at least a little bit,” Rubio said this morning.
Iran already threatened. Khamenei might need to be “saved.”
The machinery operating above governments.
Someone just dropped into that engine room with warrant and protective custody.
Lights Coming On
Trump confirmed the US War Department will run Venezuela until American oil companies rebuild the infrastructure that was nationalized.
“It’s largely going to be, for a period of time, the people that are standing right behind me.”
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Chairman of Joint Chiefs Dan Raisin Kane.
“We’re going to get reimbursed—we’re going to get reimbursed for everything that we spend.”
In Miami and Caracas, Venezuelans danced in the streets. For the possibility of sovereignty restored.
Receivership. Revision.
Tore posted this morning:
“It was dark. Lights off. Now let’s turn them on bright as ever.”
She was quoting Trump’s presser before he gave it.
Because she’s been watching this operation for years.
The lights are coming on.
The names are on the ship.
And this is just the first extraction.
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For Tore’s complete analysis of INGA, read:
Her Name Was INGA: Venezuela and the War You Were Never Shown (that is everywhere)
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