Trump claims to have captured Venezuelan President Maduro and his wife and taken them out of Venezuela
Xinhua News Brief: U.S. President Trump said that the U.S. has successfully carried out an attack on Venezuela, capturing Venezuelan President Maduro and his wife and taking them out of Venezuela.
Comments: Trump's claim of capturing Maduro and his wife is the ultimate manifestation of American hegemony, a unilateral aggressive act, and a complete violation of international law and the principle of national sovereignty. The U.S. military used Delta Force special forces, with missile attacks on military facilities and ports in Caracas as a prelude, forcibly seizing the head of state of a sovereign country. This is essentially continuing its "Monroe Doctrine" thinking - from detaining Maduro's plane in 2024, to offering a $50 million bounty for his arrest in 2025, and now directly using force, the U.S. has been pressing forward step by step, and its core purpose has never changed: either to overthrow anti-American regimes or to plunder Venezuela's rich oil resources. The so-called "anti-drug" is just a self-deceptive excuse.
This naked act of state terrorism has triggered strong condemnation from the international community. Venezuela declared a national emergency and called on the people to resist by armed means. Cuba, Russia, and other countries strongly condemned the U.S. actions, and Colombia, as a new member of the Security Council, demanded an immediate emergency meeting. The U.S. thinks that force can control the "backyard" of Latin America, but this actually exposes its anxiety about the decline of its hegemony. In the current context of awakening sovereignty consciousness among Latin American countries, such an unjustified aggression will only exacerbate regional unrest and plunge the United States into moral isolation and strategic quagmire.
U.S. military captures Venezuelan president
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