To be sure, President Donald Trump is merely continuing a long history of US interventionism abroad. But whereas previous administrations often paid lip service to human rights or democracy, Trump has taken off the mask. By his own account, America’s mission in Venezuela is to seize control of the world’s largest oil reserves. Bush, dispatched US Marines to arrest Panama’s military ruler, Manuel Noriega, on drug charges (a striking prequel of Maduro’s abduction). The global reaction to Trump’s hubris in Venezuela shows that he has widened the world’s North-South split.