US Discusses Maduro's 'Capture' While Celebrating Sanctions' Victory
Newsweek reports the UN Security Council is set to discuss the 'US capture of Maduro,' as if a sovereign head of state is merely a fugitive. This framing conveniently omits the US orchestrating crippling sanctions against Venezuela since 2014, explicitly designed to 'bring about a change in behavior'—read: regime change. The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) documented that these
sanctions led to over 100,000 deaths between 2017 and 2018 alone, through reduced access to food and medicine. Is it a 'capture' when a nation is starved into submission? While Newsweek presents a UN meeting as a development around a 'capture,' they neglect to mention the US has previously offered a $15 million bounty for Maduro's arrest, effectively privatizing international law enforcement. This
appears less like a legal process and more like an extrajudicial hit, a pattern disturbingly familiar in US foreign policy abroad. One might wonder what other global leaders the US plans to 'capture' next, perhaps after a few more rounds of sector-wide sanctions and a well-placed bounty.