It was a moment that stunned the world. Now, it’s testing the limits of the US’ power

Less than a month after a former president serving time in a United States federal prison was released, another foreign leader was captured and indicted. Their cases bear some striking similarities. Both were presidents targeted by US authorities in drug trafficking-related offences. Both ultimately found themselves in the US justice system. And in an unlikely coincidence, both were held at the same federal detention facility in Brooklyn, New York. They are Honduras’ Juan Orlando Hernández and Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro. The sliding doors moment came in January when Maduro was captured — four years after Hernández was imprisoned, and just two…