Kidnapping a foreign head of state to charge him for violating the laws of a country he wasn't in and isn't a citizen of and has no real relationship with is so far beyond any pretense of reasonableness that I'm still kind of reeling. Every time I think I have a handle on how ridiculous and inept the current US government is they find a new way to dig deeper into the pit of fascism

A timetraveller travels back in time to Venezuela to warn them but they laugh it off and call it a good bit

Wtf does that mean “possesses machine guns?” Has that been clarified? Are countries the US doesn’t like not allowed to have machine guns?

Not a lawyer, but my assumption is that the machine gun charges are claiming he possessed them outside his role as president. As in he got guns for private forces loyal to him, aka their bullshit cartel narrative.

Now of course applying US firearm law to a non US citizen outside US territory is complete bullshit as well.

The onion headline was, "Maduro charged with felony possession of oil"

What does conspiring to do narco terror entail? Planting "dirty" bombs laced with cocaine?

My gut feeling is to think these being braindead bullshit charges is the point and it's simply the US government dabbing on the rest of the world (and the majority of its own citizenry) but with this administration, I can't tell. Not like it matters a whole lot if the end goal is to consolidate control over the hemisphere and scare enemies and "allies" into compliance.

It'll be hard to prove the cocaine importation charges into the USA if instead he was allegedly exporting them to the USA while living in Venezuela

I a dark way I would like to see this fall appart in court. However I know that they would end up doing some thing stupid and unsatisfying in the end though.