Venezuela and the Trump Administration’s “Hemisphere First” Agenda

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair

The U.S. Operation Absolute Resolve to capture and kidnap Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is quite possibly one of the most unprecedented military operations to ever be carried out. While the facts on the ground are still not completely clear, we can at least establish why the Trump administration decided to remove Nicolás Maduro from power.

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