Beyond Maduro: The Dangerous Precedent of US Action in Venezuela
Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on board the USS Iwo Jima after being captured by the US military. In the early hours of January 3, 2026, Caracas residents awoke to explosions, low‑flying aircraft, and the realization that the United States was attacking their capital. By sunrise, then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was on a US aircraft, bound for a jail cell in New York. What Washington calls a surgical extraction mission is, for Latin America, a reminder that the region’s...
