Ever since the United States launched strikes in Venezuela and abducted president Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cecilia Flores on 3 January, many of us, including myself, looked on in shock as Trump, yet again, appeared to have done the unexpected.
However, we should not be shocked. To do so is to deny the existence of a past that is soaked with the blood of millions of those from the Global Majority; blood spilt time and again in the name of so-called democracy and freedom. These are not unprecedented times.
