If someone tries to tell you with a straight face — someone like a mainstream media commentator or a constitutionally supine Democratic member of Congress, just for instance — that Maduro was an illegitimate, anti-democratic and corrupt leader posing as a populist, who had sabotaged and divided a previously affluent country, please tell that person to sit quietly with those words and their conscience for a few moments and then speak them again, slowly and carefully. The unprovoked American invasion of Venezuela, the apparent decapitation of its government and the abduction or kidnapping (or “arrest,” if we must) of Maduro and his wife are signs of both the Trump regime’s strength and its fatal weakness. But this could not have happened at all if Trump and his minions had not entirely captured the machineries of state in the United States: The American coup presaged the Venezuelan coup, and the second is a late-stage byproduct of the first.
Author: Andrew O'Hehir
Published at: 2026-01-03 22:20:58
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