US EditionThis Could Be Trump’s Iraq, and some of His Base Aren’t Happy
- Maduro faces drug trafficking and narco-terrorism charges stemming from a 2020 indictment, with a trial set to begin as early as January 5.
- China condemned the US action as a blatant use of force, highlighting its growing economic ties in Latin America, where its investments are around US$240 billion.
- Opinion polls indicate only one in five Americans supports US-backed regime change in Venezuela.
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If the left denounced the American operation, the other forces engaged in an unbalanced exercise.
Barry O’Halloran: You might think it’s about drugs and oil – but Trump’s Venezuela intervention is based on age-old policy
The US military intervention that toppled Nicolás Maduro was a long time coming. In the week before Christmas, the formidable White House chief of staff Susie Wiles told Vanity Fair that Donald Trump’s objective was to remove the Venezuelan dictator from power.
The Straits Times
Trump’s Maduro capture is about drugs, immigrants and China
The United States military operation that whisked away Venezuela’s sitting president from a fortified compound in the heart of capital Caracas neatly unified three aims of the Trump administration - stopping the flow of illicit drugs across the southern border, snuffing out illegal immigration and countering China’s lengthening shadow over Latin America. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Donald Trump’s foreign policy towards Venezuela cannot be read solely in regional or ideological terms. First of all, it is a geopolitical strategy aimed at containing China in the framework of an economic and power dispute on a global scale. The current international scenario clearly shows the transition to a tripolar world, with three defined poles: the United States, Russia and China. The attack on the Narco-Dictatorship does not respond to a…
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