I was in bed with flu when I first read that Donald Trump’s commandos seized the President of Venezuela and his wife on the pretext that they were involved in narco-terrorism and hauled them off in shackles to New York to stand trial.
Thinking it must be a fever-induced hallucination, I went back to sleep. But, of course, it happened, and is happening now, and has left world leaders gobsmacked and floundering to find the right response even as Nicolás Maduro and his wife have appeared in a US court – and one Venezuelan politician seeking favour has offered Trump her Nobel Peace Prize.
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