Barely a week after President Donald Trump sent the US military to launch air strikes in Nigeria on Christmas Day last year, he dispatched US forces to Venezuela to capture President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cicilia Flores, both handcuffed, blindfolded and shipped to the US. President Trump justified the air strikes in Nigeria on the need to protect Christians against Islamist-led genocidal attacks and defended the invasion of Venezuela on the imperative to end state-led narco-terrorism. Indeed, the US government later charged President Maduro in a New York court for drug-trafficking, which he denied.