Maduro's terrorist regime kidnaps 125 foreigners: it's time to respond

The dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro, which illegitimately retains power in Venezuela, has turned to kidnapping foreign citizens.

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The kidnapping and harassment of the Maduro regime against relatives of democratic leaders

Kidnapping is not an uncommon practice for this regime. Just yesterday, Edmundo González, winner of the last elections in Venezuela and legitimate president-elect of the country, denounced the kidnapping of his son-in-law by "hooded men" while he was going to his grandchildren's school. It is easy to see the imprint of the Maduro dictatorship in that kidnapping, since hours later, the Venezuelan democratic leader María Corina Machado denounced that agents of the regime are harassing the house of her mother: "My mother is 84 years old, she is sick, with chronic health conditions. Maduro and company, you have no limits to your evil. Cowards," said Machado.

Maduro kidnaps 125 citizens from other countries, including Spain

Just yesterday, the interior minister of the Maduro regime, the mobster and drug trafficker Diosdado Cabello, announced that it has 125 foreigners detained for having ties to the democratic movement in Venezuela. Cabello accuses them of "terrorist activities", accusations that are clearly false and that hide what the regime is doing: taking hostages to blackmail Western countries. Among those arrested are citizens of Germany, Albania, Argentina, Colombia, Spain, the United States, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Peru, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Uruguay and Ukraine.

The complicity of Spanish socialists and communists with that regime

Let us remember that in September it was learned that the Maduro regime detained two Spaniards who were on vacation in Venezuela. The detainees have not yet been released. Instead of showing firmness with this tyrant, in December, Pedro Sánchez's party and its far-left partners voted against demanding that dictator Maduro end repression in Venezuela, yet another example of the complicity of Spanish socialists and communists with this criminal regime.

A kidnapping that must be responded to with the utmost firmness

It is time to act. Democratic countries cannot allow a terrorist regime (let's start calling things by their name, because Maduro and his gang are committing kidnappings like a terrorist gang) to blackmail the West by taking innocent people hostage, both Venezuelans and foreigners. So far, gestures of weakness and initiatives of appeasement have only served to make this criminal gang feel emboldened. The time has come for firmness.

The Maduro regime acts like a criminal organization and, consequently, all democratic countries should break off diplomatic relations with it, expelling the personnel of Venezuelan embassies and consulates who are sympathetic to this terrorist regime, imposing the harshest sanctions against the Maduro dictatorship, confiscating its assets abroad and proceeding to arrest all those who are part of its criminal structure, because being part of a terrorist organization that kidnaps innocent people is a very serious crime in any civilized country.

The West must begin to consider military action against that regime.

Moreover, Western countries should start considering military action against that terrorist regime, in the same way they have taken against other terrorist groups such as ISIS in Iraq and Syria or the Houthis in Yemen. The only language with which terrorists deserve to be treated is force, and even more so when criminals take hostages as Maduro and his henchmen have done.

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