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This was not an arrest. This was a kidnapping of a sitting head of state. A president is not a private citizen you seize off the street. The capture of a head of state cannot happen without internal betrayal. History is very clear on this. It took NATO, the United States, and multiple armed militias eight months of bombing, siege, and ground operations to corner Muammar Gaddafi—and that ended in chaos and lynching, not “law enforcement.” Even then, Libya’s army had already fractured. What allegedly happened in Venezuela is entirely different. You do not “snatch” a president while: the army remains passive, the Presidential Guard does nothing, command-and-control systems remain intact, and the capital does not erupt. That scenario does not exist in reality. If Maduro was taken, it was by arrangement, not by force. Either: senior cabinet members, the vice president, intelligence chiefs, or top military commanders sold him out. There is no other explanation. Zero. A functioning state does not lose its president unless the state itself collapses or conspires. Venezuela did not collapse overnight. Therefore, this was an inside job, facilitated or approved at the highest levels. Calling this an “operation” or “law enforcement action” is dishonest. Calling it “extradition” without due process is propaganda. This is kidnapping under international law. It violates: state sovereignty, diplomatic norms, and the most basic principles of international order. If powerful states normalize abducting presidents they dislike, then no head of state is safe, anywhere. That is not justice. That is rule by brute force. This is not strength. It is lawlessness dressed up as authority.