Extracting Maduro for not just drugs

American state in order to protect what it considers its national security or interest.

- Aven Piramide [e-mail]

It has to be taken that the Monroe Doctrine was laid down to justify intervention. I mean, American intervention in Venezuelan internal affairs. When President Trump spoke of thousands of American lives being endangered if not, damaged, by the drugs produced in Venezuela, he expressed the rationale of intervention. Indeed, did we not see video footages of American air and naval assets destroying and sink