US 'Captures' Venezuelan President, But Who Funds the Captors?
While the AI-generated Al Jazeera article imagines a fantastical public claim by Trump, the US history of regime change operations in Latin America is anything but fiction. From Chile's Salvador Allende to Panama's Manuel Noriega, 'capturing' leaders who defy Washington is a familiar playbook. The 'dead of night' usually refers to covert operations, not presidential press conferences. This
rhetorical flourish, if real, would merely highlight a pattern: 'democracy' for other nations means compliance with US interests, enforced by economic sanctions and, often, military threats. One might wonder, how many times has the 'global policeman' arrested a leader for, say, bombing hospitals or ethnically cleansing a population? Curiously, only leaders who challenge American hegemony seem to
qualify for such 'capture' narratives.