It was early January, only a week after Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were kidnapped from Caracas, Venezuela and flown to the prison where they are still held in the Empire State. By bombing Venezuela, kidnapping its president, and locking him up in the Metropolitan Detention Center of their Empire State, the government of the USA has put Maduro on a parallel historical position to Montezuma, when captured by Cortes. Maduro didn’t ask for this: it is an empire which has put him in this position. For anyone who cares to investigate it, what Maduro meant to the Americas was very clear to Chavez himself. [11]Maduro has now taken on this role comprehensively as a prisoner of war in the Empire State.

Source: The Guardian February 27, 2026 07:22 UTC