Maduro Kidnapping: 'There is a tragic irony in seeing Donald Trump cast himself as Venezuela's liberator'
- Posted on January 7, 2026
- By Le Monde
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Maduro Kidnapping: 'There is a tragic irony in seeing Donald Trump cast himself as Venezuela's liberator'

OP-ED. For the first time, a US president has openly claimed to have kept Congress in the dark about his decision out of an admitted disregard for the legislative branch, notes Hugo Toudic, a specialist in the Enlightenment and American political thought, in this op-ed for Le Monde.