Washington's aggression over Caracas is a daredevil episode of violation of national sovereignty. By taking captive the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Trump has gone against his visions of non-intervention in other countries' affairs. The charges against the deposed president include narco-terrorism, cocaine importation and conspiracy to possess destructive weapons against the US. However, it appears that Trump struck Venezuela and ousted its President because of the country's massive oil reserves, which total over 303 billion barrels, making them the world's largest proven reserves. Such actions constitute open violations of international law, reducing it to an ornamental concept invoked selectively and discarded conveniently. They also accelerate the erosion of whatever moral authority the US once claimed. Simultaneously, Trump has issued an unwarranted threat to Iran, if its security forces attack protestors. The US has shown little regard for the sovereignty of countries that refuse to align with its strategic preferences. From Latin America to the Middle East, interventions have been carried out under the pretext to save democracy, human rights, global security”while reliably taking on control over resources and the engineering of regime change.
