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The Nicolas Maduro Affair

by Nick Koonce

Jan 06, 2026
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Maduro gets a trial. Why is that more outrageous than Bin Laden’s burial at sea? If you wanted a case study in selective outrage, you could do worse than line up two American presidents and two enemies of the United States: Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden in Pakistan versus Donald Trump and Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela. In the first case, the target die…

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