Venezuela’s 20-year downfall featured a weird bromance between Hugo Chávez and Sean Penn, ex-husband of Madonna and ‘One Battle After Another’ actor

Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro’s capture, coming exactly 36 years after the similar seizure of Panama’s Manuel Noriega, has taken U.S. foreign policy back to the future, just as Hollywood grapples with questions of American imperialism in Oscar favorites ranging from Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another to Ryan Coogler’s Sinners to Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme. Life began imitating art when President Donald Trump bluntly declared “we’re going to be running Venezuela” about the U.S.’...