The dramatic kidnapping of Venezuela’s dictator-president Nicolás Maduro, along with his wife, on the orders of America’s own authoritarian strongman, Donald Trump, has produced a curious mix of outrage and relief. Outrage over U.S. overreach. Relief for a people long suffocated by one of Latin America’s cruellest regimes
Maduro, accused of running a narco-state and rigging Venezuela’s 2024 election, has ruled with an iron fist since 2013, when he inherited power after the death of his mentor Hugo Chávez, another strongman masquerading as a messiah, wrapped conveniently in the comforting shawl of “socialism” for the global left’s true believers.
So if Washington has finally engineered a regime change, it’s hard to summon tears for Maduro. Tyrants rarely earn sympathy; they exhaust it.
For months, the U.S. had been tightening the screws, and Maduro surely felt the pressure. But the real torment has been borne by ordinary Venezuelans—crushed by poverty, stripped of dignity, and denied even the fundamental freedom to protest their own misery.
Will American intervention cure Venezuela’s deep economic rot? That remains an open and troubling question. But one thing is undeniable: for millions ground down by Maduro’s misrule, the fall of the dictator, however dramatic or controversial, feels less like an abduction and more like a long-delayed exhale.
What is next, Mr. President, Cuba, Iran or North Korea!
-Promod Puri
Promod Puri.com 
Not so fast.
If you think MC Machado the pro-American and pro fascist who won the nobel prize– will be a boon to Venezuela and democracy think again.
So it’s ok for the americans to invade and bomb another country and kidnap the elected socialist politicians, or unelected ones frankly, and that doesn’t set the tone for what is going on– really
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1. I’m not bring in Machado in this action of the the US. That is a separate issue.
2. As a matter of principle, it is not ok for a powerful country like the USA to kidnap the leader of another country, in this case I would not call Maduro a “socialist elected” politician. He is big fraud on the ideals of socialism.
3. You and me don’t matter what has happened in Venezuela. It is the Venezuelan people how they react, if they protest or celebrate the “kidnapping.”
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Depends on Whom you mean. Yesterday at a demonstration here in Hfx against the US imperialist’s aggression, a young man who said he was venezuelan disrupted to tell us we knew nothing and the coup was necessary– obviously who came to canada as a right winger, as most Venez. who came here in the last 15 years are
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Perhaps you never met or known him, but you put your stamp of “right winger.” Yes, it is true most of us select our information sources based on our preset views. My source have information and news that are definitely not the “billion-dollar media.” But one is funded by public donations, a nonprofit organization that gathers information and expert analysis from scholars and academics at universities worldwide. I don’t subscribe to any other print or electronic media.
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