During the last week, Nicolas Maduro, when he was President of Venezuela, was abducted by U.S. DELTA Special Forces from his official residence. His arrest was authorised by the U.S. Government pursuant to an indictment issued by a New York Federal Court in a drug trafficking investigation. Subsequent to his arrest, he was briefly detained on the USS Gerald Ford flown to New York and produced before a competent judge, who remanded him to judicial custody in the Brooklyn Prison, New York. His arrest has received mixed reactions. Countries like Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, Cuba, Brazil, and Colombia have condemned the arrest. Countries like France, the United Kingdom, and Germany were very cautious in their reaction. These European countries have no sympathy for Mr. Maduro, But still, even for them, the blatant violation of international law by the U.S., in its transgression of the territorial integrity of Venezuela accompanied by the brutal use of armed violence, was too much to g...
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