The operation revives disputes over the legality of the 1989 Panama intervention, enhanced by President Trump's vow to "run" Venezuela and Nicolás Maduro's formal status as president.
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Journalist Lucia Newman suggests a secret deal allowed the US to seize Venezuela, drawing parallels to the 1989 Panama invasion and the arrest of Manuel Noriega.
The Venezuelan leader is now in U.S. custody. Decades earlier, the United States deposed the strongman who led Panama.
The operation in Venezuela has echoes of Panama in 1989. But in ordering President Maduro's capture, Trump has broken with long-standing US policy in Latin America.
A one-time U.S. ally and CIA informant, Manuel Noriega led Panama for much of the 1980s.
The legal authority for the strike -- and whether Trump consulted Congress beforehand -- was not immediately clear.
The reported capture of Venezuelan president evokes previous eras when other leaders were seized by US.
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