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Early in the morning of January 3, U.S. forces struck Caracas, seized Venezuelan President Nicholás Maduro and his wife, and flew them out of the country. The extraction operation caps off months of ...

MICHAEL J. BUSTAMANTE is Emilio Bacardí Moreau Chair in Cuban and Cuban-American Studies at the University of Miami and the author of Cuban Memory Wars: Retrospective Politics in Revolution and Exile.

This essay emerged from the Lloyd George Study Group on Global Governance.

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