Saturday’s pre-dawn capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by the United States (US) Army’s Delta Force, supported by agents of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), marked the zenith of the US military build-up in the Caribbean. While this is not the first time that the US has extracted a sitting President of a sovereign country to stand trial on drugs charges in the US – Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega