Maduro, Trump, and the politics of timing

Canadian politicians were quick to weigh in on an illegal U.S. military action—but whose interests are they really serving?

U.S. President Donald Trump’s anti-drug rationale for attacking Venezuela is not a legal premise but a moral narrative, historically deployed to sanitize illegal interventions in Latin America, writes Bhagwant Sandhu.White House photograph by Daniel Torok

Opinion

BY BHAGWANT SANDHU

January 8, 2026

OTTAWA—How does one make sense of the brazen kidnapping of a foreign head of state, Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, by the United States government under President Donald Trump? S...

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