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Do we need to beef up security for Doug Ford in 2026? I ask after the surreal capture of Venezuela president Nicolás Maduro this weekend. It was like a Michael Bay blockbuster with a similar running time. One second, Maduro is planning another defiant dance video. The next, American wizards knock out the lights in Caracas as the skies rumble with F-22 Raptors and heavily armed extraction teams. They stole Maduro with less effort than it takes to swipe a lamp from Ikea. In addition to Big Macs, Diet Coke, vanilla ice cream and Oreos, it seems Donald Trump has acquired a taste for imperial conquest. Happy New Year! Maduro wasn’t even inside his New York jail before the ghouls and conquistadors inside Trump 2.0 were threatening Venezuela sequels all over the map.
He wore the horns without menace wearing them the way others wear history. Their curves followed a life spent moving between myth and ordinary days. The pipe was ritual and the smoke a slow language he trusted more than speech. He listened longer than most people expecting the world to finish its thought. When he finally smiled it was clear he understood and chose silence instead.
