In charge… but without boots on the ground. As Venezuela’s deposed president faces his first Brooklyn court date on drug trafficking charges, back in Caracas Nicolas Maduro’s regime remains intact. We’ll ask how a US president who promised no more forever wars will deal with an entrenched system whose local militias have their fingers in drug trafficking, gold and yes… oil.
Donald Trump’s talked up oil while the word democracy has yet to pass his lips since Saturday’s raid. Why sideline Nobel peace prize winner Maria Corina Machado and the civilian opposition whose election win was stolen? Will he ultimately try to install a US-style occupation authority? Or simply do business with those currently running Venezuela.
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