February 3, 2025
Venezuela, Panama, Mexico, Canada: Tired of all the winning?
By Monica Showalter
President Trump revealed himself to be a foreign policy ace with four straight diplomatic victories in a row and it's just Monday.
Late last week, Ric Grenell, President Trump's envoy for special missions, (otherwise known as 'barbarian handler') flew to Caracas and cut a deal with Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela, complete with smiling pictures, to bring back six American hostages held there and force Maduro to take back Venezuela's large crop of illegal aliens, all in exchange for ... apparently nothing. We still don't know how that was done, or what, if anything other than status quo activities such as oil drilling contracts for Chevron or some kind of quasi recognition of Maduro as de facto president (following a nakedly stolen election) were held out as the carrot. But presumably, the example President Trump made of Colombia's mouthy president, Gustavo Petro, put a lot of regional players on notice that it's better to deal with Trump before he gets what he wants and then makes you cry 'uncle,' because he's going to get it either way. Even Maduro calculated his best odds and went with cooperation with Trump. A global pariah, he must have loved the attention, too. Even Maduro got something.
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