Letters to the Editor: Trump’s Venezuela oil grab starts the year with a bang
Protesters rally outside the White House in Washington, after the US captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife in a military operation. Picture: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP
The new year has started with a bang. The US raid on Venezuela, protests against Ice officers in the US, ongoing war in Ukraine, and Gaza enduring a winter of cold and rain with most of the population in tents after a three-year war.
Venezuela on the north coast of South America with neighbours Colombia and Guyana and a population of 31m people in 2024 found their capital Caracas intruded upon in the night and early hours of January 3 when Venezuela’s president Maduro (seen by many in Venezuela as elected by a rigged election) and his wife were taken by force and flown out of the country by the US to New York to face charges of drug trafficking to the US.
