Why let truth get in the way of a good story. President Maduro has been captured by the United States Administration, using Special Forces, in what almost certainly constitutes an illegal defiance of sovereign international law. Not wholly sure this latter point adds anything, as the US appears to find International Law – as it does domestic law (eg, amongst many other instances: the deployment of federal troops in US cities on spurious grounds of National Defence) – an inconvenience to be overridden when it so chooses.
President Maduro, according to US Attorney General, Pam Bondi, will be taken to the US to stand trial and “face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts.”
Yes. Justice, you hear – just like sovereign President Juan Orlando Hernández, of Honduras, who was considered by any in the know, to be bang to rights as an actual narco kingpin, in the smuggling of tonnes of cocaine, after detailed investigations lasting several years.
Piffle, said Trump, pardoning Hernandez, and released him from Federal prison. However, President Maduro is not “one of us” – he is an “awful person, a terrible person”, and with such deeply tested legal arguments as these, who else in the world can consider themselves safe? Spain has been dragging its feet on raising its Defense contribution to 3.5%, let alone the 5% agreed recently amongst NATO Nations. Yes, Pedro Sanchez, we hope you have an overnight bag packed, as Delta Force may soon be kicking in your door.
Constitutionally – and with this dawn raid, Trump hasn’t quite managed to entirely eviscerate the Venezuelan constitution – Delcy Rodríguez, is rightful heir to the Presidency. She is a staunch Maduro ally and loyalist. She is very unlikely to be changing tack any time soon…
Which brings us to the point – María Corina Machado, recently awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and by many considered the rightful leader of Venezuela… But isn’t that what internal democratic change, and resistance to authoritarian rulers, from within a nation, is supposed to achieve?… Like a butterfly fighting its way out of its cocoon, its very survival depends upon the legitimacy of the fight. Too little struggle, and it’s wings cannot engorge with blood, powering its way into the world. Yes perhaps there has been enough blood in Venezuela, with fully 1/3 of its citizens refugees in neighboring nations, fleeing the autocratic Maduro.
Yet, as I have written elsewhere, there is zero appetite for the US to stay – and uphold the Pottery Barn rule (“if you break it you fix it”) – Nor is it clear how they can orchestrate Machado into the Presidency. But…they don’t care about that. They’ve got their man and damn the rest of it…
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