Dr. Barun Roy PhD
The images from Caracas in the early morning hours of January 3, 2026, should haunt the American conscience. As explosions illuminated the Venezuelan capital and Delta Force operatives stormed the presidential compound, the United States executed what can only be described as an act of armed aggression against a sovereign nation —a flagrant violation of both international and domestic law that exposes the bankruptcy of America’s professed commitment to human rights, the rule of law and democracy. President Donald Trump’s brazen kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, represents not a triumph of justice but a dangerous reassertion of imperial power that threatens to plunge an already volatile region into chaos while setting a catastrophic precedent for international relations.
