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Many national leaders will also be either silent about or talk around the implications for their countries’ relationships with America, and what this unilateral use of force means for others,” he told news.com.au.
“But whatever the flaws of Venezuala and Maduro, a military abduction of a national leader, followed by President Trump saying the US will ‘run’ the country and extract a lot of oil and wealth from it, is all bad news for Australia and the wider world.
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“Donald Trump set the convicted drug criminal former Honduran president free just weeks ago and now wants everyone to believe his morally motivated to abduct another South American leader on drug charges.”
That is a reference to the former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez, who had barely begun a decades-long prison sentence after being convicted, by an American court, of helping to smuggle hundreds of tons of cocaine into the US when Donald Trump pardoned him and set him free.
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