After strikes, US whisks away President Maduro, wife; Venezuela demands ‘proof of life’

If Venezuela holds the world’s largest proven oil reserves, Iran holds the third largest after Saudi Arabia. It is definitely no coincidence that the US President Donald Trump warned Iran on Friday that it was “locked and loaded” to act if Tehran clamped down on protestors. While the action was not clearly defined, it could mean anything, including military action. But the US did walk the talk on Saturday when President Trump ordered a strike against Venezuela. The attacks took place in Venezuela’s capital city of Caracas. For quite some time, the US military had been on the offensive—seizing oil…