Did Maduro’s capture just change the global financial order?
Potentially yes, here’s why:
While Venezuela has played host to Russian, Chinese, Iranian, Hezbollah and Tren De Aragua agents for some time, it is also home to a shadowy network of finance that extends from London to Langley and which has been instrumental in facilitating the ‘black market’ for sanctioned nations (and groups).
Of course, not everyone is convinced and critics of the Maduro ‘extradition’, question the legal basis of the operation and argue that it was a violation of Venezuelan sovereignty noting how little tolerance any Western power would have for such an action being conducted upon its shores.
But supporters push back calling it a response to years of de facto ‘acts of war’ perpetrated by the Maduro regime and that, legally speaking, because he and his wife had been indicted by a Federal Prosecutor, Maduro’s capture was simply an arrest of a federal fugitive and was functionally no different than the raid on Osama bin Laden’s Pakistani stronghold or the arrest of Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega.
What seems clear is that United States has severed one of the main economic arteries used by shadow-governments intent on wielding power over citizens of the world.
Do you think Maduro’s capture was intended to ‘decapitate’ a financial ‘shadow network’ or something else?
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