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he United States (US) under President Donald Trump scripted history by launching a military strike on Venezuela and captured the incumbent President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, on January 3. The US operation, codenamed Operation Absolute Resolve, was a deliberate decision taken by Trump to signal the rest of the world in general and Venezuela in particular about its changing intent and fundamental goals. The objective of the military operation was to force the departure of the Maduro government’s top political figures. 

The world was surprised when the sitting president was extrajudicially abducted. In this dramatic decision taken by Trump, the decline of the liberal international order and the phasing out of democratic values, ideas, and traditions have superseded everything else. It also indicated how the famous “Monroe Doctrine” has transitioned into the “Donroe Doctrine”. This was nothing but a reassertion that the US has full control of the Western hemisphere. Such reassertion became a major source of concern when the US Department of State released a social media post just after two days of the military operation declaring: “This is our hemisphere.”