Our View: Maduro’s capture a threat for rules-based international order

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was to appear in a Manhattan federal court on Monday afternoon to face drugs and weapons charges following his capture by US forces in a pre-dawn raid on Saturday. It is not the first time the United States invaded a Latin American country and captured its leader. In 1989, on the orders of President George Bush, US troops invaded Panama and captured the country’s dictator Manuel Noriega, who was charged for his links with the Medellin drug cartel and sentenced to 17 years in prison.