Removal of Maduro Reinforces Anti-Left Wave in Latin America

It has been disappointing but not entirely surprising to see the widespread hysteria in Europe in support of the illegitimate Maduro gangster regime in Venezuela, and the new round of anxiety about a possible US military seizure of Greenland. The pedantic fuss-budgetry about the legality of the American action in Venezuela is nonsense. Former President Maduro and his wife were authentically indicted in New York during the Biden administration as drug traffickers intimately involved in illegally bringing into the United States large quantities of lethal narcotics. President Trump is correct in his conclusion that this traffic caused the death of thousands of Americans every year and amounted to an act of war against the United States and a serious threat to the legitimate interests and national security of the United States. As president and commander-in-chief, he has the duty and the right to protect the national interest and to enforce the laws of the country.

The only remaining shadow of doubt on the probity of his conduct was the general recognition that leaders of the governments of sovereign countries should not be apprehended and removed by other countries, but it is notorious than Maduro stole the last two elections, has illegally transformed the legislature into an impotent talking shop, packed the Supreme Court, suppressed and intimidated a free media, and repressed the entire country. He has for some time not been recognised as legitimate leader of Venezuela and therefore does not benefit from the presumption of immunity to overthrow and removal by another country against which he has committed acts of war.

The same people that would be shrieking with outrage if the United States purported to take over directly the government Venezuela are instead wringing their hands in concern at the uncertainty of how anything useful will be achieved by Maduro’s vice president, who has been installed as the ostensible president. It is obvious that the United States possesses the ability to intimidate the Venezuelan government. It could at any moment impose an absolute sea and air blockade of the country and could intervene anywhere it wishes within Venezuela at any time with unanswerable force. In these circumstances, there will be little of Maduro’s defiance of the United States.