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Dispute Database / venezuela-invasion

Venezuela invasion by January 31?

Polymarket Definitional vagueness · 2026-01 · $10.5M ($10.5M invasion market; $115M sibling 'Maduro out') · status: resolved

What happened

US forces captured Maduro in a snatch-and-extract operation. Polymarket clarified 'invasion' required operations 'intended to establish control' of territory — the capture mission didn't qualify. A DOJ case later charged a US soldier who made ~$409,881 trading on classified knowledge of the operation.

Resolution outcome

Invasion settled No; 'Maduro out' settled Yes; federal insider-trading charge; a bill to ban federal/military personnel from event markets followed.

The drafting lesson

Military-term definitions ('invasion', 'operation', 'control') need bright lines — and insider-trading risk is now a federal docket item.

Failure type — Definitional vagueness: A key term ('suit', 'ban', 'invasion', 'go live') is undefined or defined differently than traders assumed.

Sources

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