Obama’s executive order paved the way for US attack on Venezuela, says Opposition Leader

In 2023 and 2024 when Donald Trump was facing several charges in the law courts in the United States of America (USA), he said he wouldn’t receive a fair trial in the nation’s capital.

He was later convicted of several crimes, making him the first president and former president to be found guilty of crimes.

Fast forward to January, 2026- the USA has taken military action in Venezuela and removed its sitting president Nicholas Maduro and his wife to the US to stand trial for “narco-terrorism” conspiracy, cocaine importation conspiracy, possession of machine-guns and destructive devices, and conspiracy to possess machine guns and destructive devices.

The couple appeared in a New York Court on Monday, January, 5 2026 where they pleaded not guilty of the charges against them.

Opposition Leader Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, at a press conference on Monday, January, 5 2026 questioned whether Maduro can receive a fair trial in the US. He also pointed out that the grounds leading to the US military action in Venezuela were laid by former President Barack Obama.

Speaking from the Unity Labour Party’s (ULP) headquarters in Richmond Hill, Dr. Gonsalves said while prosecutors in the USA will say Maduro can have a fair trial, even President Trump has questioned the USA’s judicial system when it comes to fairness.

“I’m sure the prosecutors in the United States of America- the federal prosecutors- will probably say yes. But we have heard the President of the United States repeatedly stated that he couldn’t get a fair trial in New York City.

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