‘Remote coercion’: What has US approach been since abduction of Maduro?

Three weeks since attack, US plans focus on oil, but little clarity emerges, as analysts warn of Venezuela faultlines.

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It was an extraordinary beginning to the new year: A deadly United States military operation on Venezuelan soil. The abduction of the country’s longtime leader, Nicolas Maduro.

But in the three weeks since the operation, widely condemned as an affront to international law and a potential opening salvo in the administration of Donald Trump’s stated goal of “preeminence” in the Western Hemisphere, only a vague framework of Washington’s plan for the South American country has emerged.