“The capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in an overnight raid bears resemblance to Manuel Antonio Noriega’s capture, in which the elite U.S. Delta Force seized the Panamanian strongman in 1990 and flew him to Florida to face drug trafficking charges, 36 years ago to the day,” the Washington Post reports.
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