There is a chance that President Donald Trump will order a military strike against the Nicolás Maduro regime in Venezuela in the near future. Both credible reports and President Trump himself have basically said it out loud. For many Americans, this raises immediate fears of another costly foreign entanglement — another doomed “regime change” operation.
Their concerns are legitimate. But take it from someone who grew up in Venezuela and personally saw how the chavista regime took over the country and steadily turned it into a brutal dictatorship at the helm of a massive criminal empire: An attack against Maduro will not really be a years-long war of occupation. It would be a decisive operation against the Maduro-led Cartel de los Soles.
President Trump´s Venezuela approach is right. He´s right to see Maduro as the head of a cartel. He’s also right to deploy military assets against him and his structure. And, if he decides so, he will be right to order strikes against them.
Nicolás Maduro is an indicted drug lord. He’s leading a criminal organization masquerading as a government that’s providing a safe haven for criminal gangs to send drugs to American shores. More than 100,000 Americans reportedly died from overdoses between January 2023 and January 2024. Allowing a rogue regime to run a country as a base for narcotics trafficking is not an option.
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