Las Vegas Review-Journal: Maduro action not without historical precedent

Kidnapping Blues: The Maduro Abduction Precedent

Once done, it remains, by nature and fact, irreversible. The precedent of indicting and abducting a serving head of state and his spouse, dropping them into the jurisdiction of another country to face criminal charges of inventive pedigree (narcoterrorism foremost among them), is the stuff of nightmares in international statecraft. With the now former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores facing such charges in New York, …

Las Vegas Review-Journal: Maduro action not without historical precedent

Nicolas Maduro appeared in a New York courtroom Monday, two days after U.S. forces carried out a surprise raid in Venezuela, capturing the country’s president at a military base and hustling him in handcuffs and blindfolded to a U.S. aircraft…