Maduro’s Capture Takes Us Back to the Future
Interventions in Latin America. Tariffs. Antisemitism. Socialism. Corruption. Vaccines. Arms races. Welcome to the politics of 1900.
In the earliest hours of January 3, a group of U.S. Delta Force operators broke into the heavily fortified presidential compound of Nicolás Maduro, the dictator who has ruled Venezuela since 2013.
Maduro tried to shut the door to a steel safe room, but it was too late. By 4:29 a.m. Caracas time, he and his wife were aboard the USS Iwo Jima bound for New York, where they are set to be arraigned as early as Monday.
“I watched it literally like I was watching a television show,” an exultant President Donald Trump told Fox News over the phone. Later, in a press conference, he compared the operation to “World War II” and to the U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities this past June.
As predictable as the numbing effect of a pisco sour, out poured the condemnations.
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Why do I have to fucking go to the Free Press when I have already subscribed to Ferguson’s Time Machine? This is so unuser- friendly, unlike Tina Brown’s Fresh Hell.
I thought this was a joke at first.. but Nial you are not that cool. Just release what you write where people paid.