"After months of saber rattling and bombing small boats at sea, Trump ordered American troops to invade Venezuela and seize its president, Nicolás Maduro, bringing him and his wife to the U.S. to stand trial on drug trafficking charges. There's no question that Maduro is a bad actor. He ignored election results, violently suppressed opposition, and drove the economy into the ground, all the while personally enriching himself."
"He has also engaged in crackdowns against the LGBTQ+ community, in an apparent attempt to curry favor with evangelical Venezuelans. That said, Maduro is not the only authoritarian in the world. International law prevents one country from invading another unless it's in self-defense. Trump's argument that drugs flowing from Venezuela are an act of aggression is a stretch, to say the least."
"For all Trump's bluster about drugs, his own actions undercut the argument. Just last month, Trump pardoned former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted in 2024 of trafficking 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S. Trump projected his own grievances onto Hernández, claiming that he was unfairly treated by the Biden administration. There are two things that animate Trump: power and money. And that seems to be what is happening with Venezuela."
Donald Trump ordered American troops to invade Venezuela and seize its president, Nicolás Maduro, bringing him and his wife to the U.S. to stand trial on drug trafficking charges. Maduro ignored election results, violently suppressed opposition, wrecked the economy, personally enriched himself, and cracked down on the LGBTQ+ community to court evangelical voters. International law generally prohibits invasions absent self-defense, and labeling drug flows as an act of aggression is legally tenuous. Trump undermined his own drug argument by pardoning Juan Orlando Hernández, convicted of trafficking 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S. The invasion appears driven by power and money motives.
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