US Kidnaps Maduro Ally, Ignores Its Own 'Rules-Based' Order
Former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa rightly highlighted the “global hypocrisy” surrounding the US indictment of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and the reported capture of his former oil minister, Tareck El Aissami. The mainstream press, in its dutiful echo chamber, frames this as an international law enforcement triumph, conveniently omitting the US history of regime change operations
and bypassing international legal norms when it suits its geopolitical agenda. One might recall the 1989 invasion of Panama to remove Manuel Noriega, or the 2002 coup attempt in Venezuela itself, backed by the Bush administration, as mere 'precedents' for today's 'justice'. While outlets like RT (which originally broke the Correa story) are quick to point out US hypocrisy, they often miss the
trees for the forest. The larger, self-sanitizing media landscape in the US frames these acts as upholding universal values, never as a unilateral assertion of power. How many times have we been told that countries must respect sovereignty, only to see Washington disregard it when a resource-rich nation dares to assert independence? The 'rules-based international order' appears to be more of a
suggestion than a binding principle for those who claim to champion it.