Two decades before US forces kidnapped Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro this weekend, Hugo Chávez had already predicted the approach:
Years ago, someone told me: ‘They’re going to end up accusing you of being a drug trafficker – you personally – you, Chávez. Not just that the government supports it, or permits it – no, no, no. They’re going to try to apply the Noriega formula to you.’ They’re looking for a way to associate Chávez directly with drug trafficking. And then, anything goes against a ‘drug trafficker president’, right?
On the morning of 3 January, Trump tweeted a Happy New Year message. The US had carried out ‘a large scale strike on Venezuela and its leader’. President Maduro and his wife Cilia had been ‘captured and flown out of the Country’. Trump said more details would follow in a few hours’ time. The details, however, were confused. Läs artikel