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Maduro, Interrupted

Washington's predawn raid removed a president but not a regime. Five scenarios for what follows.

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Jan 06, 2026
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by Robert Muggah

The predawn extraction of Nicolás Maduro from Caracas may have caught observers off guard, but the underlying logic was telegraphed months earlier. The Trump administration’s National Security Strategy, published in December, articulated an unambiguous vision of hemispheric primacy, one that explicitly identified Venezuela, along with Cu…

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