The United States’ military strike in Caracas on January 3 and the abduction of Venezuela’s President Nicholas Maduro and his wife do not constitute an isolated incident nor an anomaly within the international system. 

On the contrary, it stands as an unequivocal signal of the historical moment confronting the world order: the collapse of the liberal international order and the rise of a more explicit, direct and violent form of domination, which can be characterised as a global, corporate form of fascism.

The operation to capture and forcibly extract Maduro and his wife, executed through the use of force and without any international legal basis, flagrantly violates the United Nations charter, the principle of state sovereignty and the entire framework of public international law. 

It is, without ambiguity, an act of international kidnapping and an act of war. No legal euphemism or diplomatic rhetoric can conceal this reality.

President Donald Trump’s address, in which he states without reservation that the US will “run Venezuela”, marks a discursive turning point. 

The masks have definitely fallen. Democracy, human rights and the fight against corruption are no longer invoked as formal justifications.

The motive is........

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