Every Venezuelan who shares a close timezone with Caracas did not sleep tonight. At 2 am, the United States entered the country and captured Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, sending them to the USS Iwo Jima and off to the United States, specifically New York, where they were both indicted on criminal charges that include narco-terrorism. Here are reports from the BBC, Reuters, AP News, and Caracas Chronicles (this last one I seriously recommend you follow if you truly want to understand Venezuela). I just finished watching Donald Trump’s press conference in which he announced that the US would “run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition”.

And I’m already exhausted. And I’m not alone. But more on that in a second.

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