A demonstrator holds a banner during a march in Caracas on January 13, 2026, to demand the release of deposed Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores. [AFP]
If the Russian and Israeli invasions of—and military actions in—Ukraine and Gaza, respectively, partly accounted for the not-so-good quotient of global peace in the last five years, the military-led seizure and rendition by the United States of Nicolás Maduro, bus driver-turned-politician and president of Venezuela since 2013, together with his wife and son a few days ago left no doubt as to the newest, nuclear-potent threat to both global sovereignty and peace: Donald John Trump.