US 'Captures' Maduro, Finds Democracy Evangelist in White House
The Guardian breathlessly reports that Donald Trump will host 'Nobel peace prize winner' María Corina Machado after the US military 'captured' Nicolás Maduro, whisking him off to a New York jail. One might wonder why a Nobel winner (ahead of the actual 2025 announcement, no less) would be negotiating Venezuela's future after a foreign military abduction, not a popular uprising. Washington's
playbook for 'democracy' here seems strikingly similar to Libya, Iraq, and Afghanistan—less about Venezuelan self-determination, more about controlling oil. This 'capture' of a sovereign head of state isn't a democratic transition; it's a coup, rebranded as a victory for freedom. Trump, a staunch critic of foreign entanglements, apparently makes exceptions when there's an 'oil-rich nation'
involved. How many times must the US destabilize a region before the media calls it what it is—interventionism, not liberation? (Asking for countless developing nations.)