By Michael McManus

The audacious capture of Venezuelan President Maduro has grabbed attention worldwide.

While ordinary Venezuelans celebrated, the world’s dictatorships mourned. Venezuela was allied with the fellow thugocracies of Russia, Iran, and North Korea.

The decapitation of Venezuela’s regime should provoke few tears. Despite its oil wealth, citizens were forced to eat rubbish to stay alive. Now dictatorships worldwide have been put on notice.

Venezuela was Iran’s forward base in the Americas. The regime provided Venezuelan passports to nationals of Iran’s “Axis of Resistance”, allowing potential terrorists to travel throughout the Americas with their true nationality hidden. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei had threatened to “hold responsible” those he perceived as being an enemy.

Terrorists are Tehran’s weapon of choice for doing this. Indeed, US........

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