Nicolás Maduro's heavy-handed rule in Venezuela comes to an end with U.S. action

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : He agitated for Chavez to be released from prison and backed his fervent leftist agenda in an era when socialism was well out of favor.
41% : Maduro long denied abusing political and human rights, instead describing his government as being at odds with what he views as a decades-long imperialist campaign to topple ⁠Chavez's socialist movement and take Venezuela's oil.
39% : U.S. strikes Venezuela and says its leader, Maduro, has been captured and flown out of the country A 63-year-old socialist and the handpicked successor of the late Hugo Chavez, Maduro was long accused by critics both at home and abroad of being a dictator who jailed or persecuted political opponents and repeatedly staged sham elections.

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