Is Maduro a Target? Ex-MI6 Chief & Venezuela Expert on Trump’s Gamble

As Trump Venezuela pressure campaign intensifies, with U.S. warships deployed offshore and fresh strikes on alleged drug-trafficking vessels, Sir Richard Dearlove, former Head of MI6, and Phil Gunson, Senior Analyst at the International Crisis Group, weigh in on one of the most sensitive questions in the crisis: Is Nicolás Maduro now a potential U.S. target? Sir Richard Dearlove argues that Washington could consider a precision strike on Maduro and notes that a targeted hit might be viewed as an alternative to deploying “boots on the ground.” Venezuela expert Phil Gunson says the growing pressure inside the country: "When he appears in public, it’s at very short notice and generally surrounded by civilians as a kind of human shield." With Trump Venezuela warships off the coast and Maduro-Trump tensions rising, could this confrontation escalate further? And could the U.S. invade Venezuela?