Nicolás Maduro Refused to be a Slave to Empire

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The New York Times reported that Trump officials felt mocked by Venezuela’s president. What provoked them was not a speech or a policy, but Nicolás Maduro’s nonchalance—his dancing in the face of escalating U.S. threats.

As the Trump administration bombed fishing vessels in the Caribbean, killing at least 115 people at the time of this writing under the banner of a war on “narco-terrorists,” Maduro danced.

As Trump dispatched eleven warships, squadrons of fighter jets...