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After U.S. captures Maduro, what's next for Venezuela and Latin America?

It has been three days since the United States captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in an audacious military raid.

It was a sudden and intense escalation of an ongoing campaign by the United States to oust Maduro.

Maduro, and his wife Cilia Flores, appeared in a Manhattan court yesterday in an arraignment hearing over drug trafficking and weapons charges. Those charges were central to the government’s rationale for capturing Maduro.

But since Maduro’s capture, the Trump administration has focused on the Venezuelan oil industry and threatened other countries in Latin…

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