The geopolitical landscape in 2026 presents a sum of transcendental events of high global impact and the continuation of the cycle of transformations that generate scenarios -even unexpected ones-, reconfigure alliances and underpin the competition between the various components of the global balance.

In this context, the beginning of the year brings with it a series of events with changes and continuities in the scenario of Venezuela, above all, with the capture, by the Trump Administration, of Nicolás Maduro Moros, an event that captured, since January 3, great international attention due to its nature and the internal and external consequences.

For this reason, in this publication, we put for the consideration of our readers, the reflections of some of our experts on the “Venezuela Dossier”.

José María Manrique:

“Remember the Maine!” (1898), remember the Lusitania (1915, PGM), Pearl Harbor (1941, WWI), the Gulf of Tonkin (1964, Vietnam), the Liberty (1967, 6-Day War), etc, etc.

The house brand is clear and permanent.

Let us Hispanics, let us the whole world remember, that the United States “liberated” the Philippines to “Christianize those savages”, when even today it is still the largest Catholic nation in the East. And that he did so at the price of more than a million Filipinos killed, according to U.S. sources.

Nihil novum sub sole, except that today it is applauded practically in unison.

Francisco Bendala Ayuso:

The illegal and unjustifiable intervention of the US in Venezuela seeks only the control of its oil for economic-energy-strategic purposes and the displacement of it and the area from China and Russia.

After isolating the country, blocking it for months, it placed the Chavista regime in a dead-end situation, which forced its leadership to agree that, in exchange for allowing it to reposition itself for the future, it would hand over Maduro and ensure the stability of the country until the holding of general elections with which the US will “legalize” its intervention. 

But that it will only convene when Washington considers that its result will be favorable to it with a docile government, even if it were Chavista, inclined to its interests.

Mario Ramos:

Trump, like a geopolitical sheriff in the style of the Old West, with the kidnapping of President Maduro has installed a precedent on the geostrategic chessboard, where the law of the revolver can be used by anyone since ‘the bad example’ has its consequences and has not left anyone indifferent.

On the other hand, the operation that made possible the kidnapping of President Maduro and his wife has left many doubts, but this deserves a broader analysis. We will observe with a magnifying glass the actions of the ‘new transitional government’.

Constantin von Hoffmeister:

Venezuela shows that in a multipolar age of empires and spheres of influence, anti-imperialist rhetoric evaporates because the iron rule of world politics remains clear: might is right.

Fabián Cardozo:

Trump’s attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro are a clear example of what imperialism is.

The Bolivarian revolution defends Latin American sovereignty, popular democracy and dignity in the face of constant external aggressions. He must continue on that path to make it clear that the world has no owner.

Hei Sing Tso:

This will trigger the re-armmament of some Latin American countries. Brazil may even accelerate the nuclear weapons program.

Other countries will purchase advanced weapons and strengthen security and intelligence apparatus in response.

José Menéndez Manjón:

Trump has shown with obscene cynicism what the politics of the liberal West consist of: plunder. There is no international law other than the law of the strongest.

Strength and firmness are the only possible response to the violence of Anglo-Saxon neoliberalism.

Carlos Javier Blanco Martín:

The events that have taken place in Venezuela herald a process of brutalization of international relations led and sought by the Yankee hegemon: its unequivocal determination, which is to destroy International Law.

Israel Lira:

The military intervention in Venezuela, by the Trump administration, is a faithful reminder that the legal equality of nation-states as a principle of Western international law is an ideology of domination that serves to subjugate the periphery, because the more things change, the more they remain the same.

And this cyclicality lies in accepting that only those peoples who can exercise their sovereignty through force are free, because the Imperium is the basis of the entire Ius.

Whoever has the strength has the right. Russia, China and North Korea have understood this principle of real people’s international law very well for the safeguarding of their national projects.

That is the path and the lesson for the peoples of the Global South.

Christian Lamesa:

Saturday, January 3, 2026, will possibly go down in history as the day that International Law died, at least as we knew it. With the attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of its president, Nicolás Maduro, Donald Trump violated the sovereignty of an independent state, attacking it without any legal justification and violating the immunity enjoyed by heads of state. What the American president should keep in mind is that when it is shown that it can be so easy to break the rules, it opens a Pandora’s box that can turn against him like a boomerang. 

In a deeply divided country, such as the United States, where there are many who describe the Trump government as a dictatorship, the only thing that prevents, for example, various sectors of the Armed Forces from ignoring the presidential authority, are the laws, rules that I do not see because those opposed to the Republican could not violate.

Guillermo Rocafort:

The brutal interference of the United States in Venezuela is living proof of the absolute necessity for Hispanic nations to unite in this new Multipolar World Order in order to defend their sovereignty.

We cannot continue to be a balkanised land embroiled in multiple fratricidal struggles; only a Multipolar Hispanic Unity will allow us to keep the “Yankee” predation at bay, as my distant relative, Vicente Rocafuerte, the first Constitutional President of the Republic of Ecuador, rightly pointed out two hundred years ago.

The emancipation of the Hispanic nations that began two hundred years ago will not be fully realised until they unite, including Spain, in a common position to confront the United States. Only then will there be full sovereignty in the Hispanic nations.