The unexpected abduction of President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, and his wife, Cilia Fores, by the United States in an invasion on 3 January, has sent shock waves around the world. It is a grave assault on the rules-based international order and a crude display of the perverse doctrine of ‘might is right’. The world should be deeply concerned about President Donald Trump’s embrace of this malevolent act from the US’s discredited playbook.
Caracas, the Venezuelan capital, in the midnight of that Saturday, was assailed by torrential missiles and bombings, which dismantled the country’s aerial and other defence systems, thus paving the way for the 15,000 US Delta Force Commandos to break into the presidential fortress. This “criminal aggression”, state officials said on Thursday, claimed 100 lives, including Mr Maduro’s Cuban guards. Mr Maduro was handcuffed and immediately flown to the US.
On 5 January, President Maduro and his wife (alongside their son and other state officials, in absentia) were arraigned before a New York Court, where
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