It’s clear that in the early morning hours of Jan. 3, the United States launched a military operation into Venezuela to abduct and arrest Maduro. But the abduction and military operation blatantly attack “bedrock” principles of the United Nations charter for legal warfare, the experts agreed. But the situation in Venezuela is more complex given that Maduro is a head of state. “The courts have not created a similar deterrent to engaging in unlawful activity to bring a defendant to the United States,” she said. And because of the current conditions in Venezuela, people in the country are fractured about how to move forward.