"Maduro in Minneapolis" ...
.... an excellent essay by Timothy Synder -- the scholar of authoritarian politics -- noting that when Maduro's death squads killed Venezuelans, they typically offered the same justifications that ICE did in killing Renee Nicole Good ...
... i.e. the agents were defending themselves against radical assailants
https://snyder.substack.com/p/maduro-in-minneapolis
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