On 3 January 2026, the US committed one of its most brazen acts of international law-breaking to date. Its special ops forces captured, abducted and imprisoned socialist Venezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro. Maduro’s supposedly interim ‘acting’ president, Delcy Rodriguez, appears mostly to have been acting in the US empire’s favour. Still, popular communes across Venezuela remain resistant to capitulation. National Assembly deputy Mario Silva called for Chavistas to mobilise, arguing that since 2026 executive power is in the hands of the US. Certainly, the US-led regime change and piracy operation in Venezuela is yielding great dividends for certain interests. Among these are…