A foreign analyst revealed on Sunday the "most uncomfortable" part of President Donald Trump's arrest of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.
Maduor and his wife, Cilia Flores, were detained by the U.S. Delta Force on Saturday morning at their residence and then swiftly flown to the U.S., according to multiple reports. The couple has been indicted on narco-terrorism and gun charges, and Attorney General Pam Bondi said after the arrest that the couple will face the "full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts."
Trump said after the arrest that the U.S. will "run" Venezuela until a new government is formed and didn't rule out putting troops on the ground.
Dr. Cristina Martín Jiménez, an author and professor who studies communications, said in a lengthy post on X on Sunday that the "truly unsettling" part of Trump's move against Maduro has been the "revealing calm" left behind in Venezuela.
"The truly unsettling detail, for me, isn't a video or a leak. It's the revealing calm," Martín Jiménez posted. "The calm of someone who already knows they won't fall into the void. The calm of someone who has received guarantees. No one is calm in the middle of a storm without a negotiated shelter. That serenity isn't innocent; it's strategic."
"And here's the most uncomfortable part: tutored transitions don't free countries; they reorder them," she added. "They change the narrative, redistribute power, whitewash some and sacrifice others. The citizen doesn't enter the equation except as a pretext. They're promised a future while the division is decided in closed offices."
