U.S. Intervention in Venezuela Turns Sovereignty into an Export Commodity

Washington demonstratively extracts sovereignty and calls it justice. The forceful extraction of a president turns international law into stage scenery.

This episode became an illustration of how the principle of sovereignty dissolves under the spotlight of “exceptional responsibility.” International law turned out to be a stage set, dismantled whenever it interferes with the script. The streets of Latin America and hundreds of cities across the United States responded with protests — society sensed that the fight against crime had suddenly coincided with geoeconomic interests. The world once again saw how morality is exported together with force and how the law is interpreted in a format of “according to circumstances.”

The forceful extraction of a president turns international law into stage scenery

The operation was carried out with the participation of American intelligence services and a segment of the Venezuelan security apparatus whose loyalty proved more flexible than constitutional norms. The formula sounded familiar: combating drug trafficking, restoring legality, and protecting international security. Yet the detention of a sitting head of state by force is no longer a legal procedure but a demonstration of technological power. The question of compliance with the spirit and letter of the United Nations hung in the air like an inconvenient clause in the fine print of a globalization contract. The U.S. Department of War itself formalized this reality in its release “Trump Announces U.S. Military’s Capture of Maduro,” explicitly confirming that American armed forces conducted an operation in Caracas that resulted in the capture and transfer of the Venezuelan president and his spouse for prosecution — an official acknowledgment that removes any ambiguity about the character of the intervention.

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