Trump’s snatching of Maduro shows a new level of unrestrained global power
Trump’s snatching of Maduro shows a new level of unrestrained global power START NOW AND FILL EMAIL AND ZIP CODE CLICK HERE US President Donald Trump and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Getty Images Expressions of unbridled power don’t come blunter than abducting a sitting president from his capital in the dead of night. President Donald Trump has shown in a 74-word social media post that he can act decisively, suddenly and perhaps recklessly, in pursuit of his varied and varying foreign policy goals, with little regard for precedent, consequence or it seems, international law. The operation to take Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife from their heavily guarded location in Caracas to – presumably – face the American court system, does follow a predictable, albeit extreme, pattern for what the US calls a fugitive, with a $50 million bounty on his head. But there is a grave exception here: Maduro is a head of state, whose nation is prey to vario...
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