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  “Trump’s Raid on Venezuela: High‑Geopolitical Piracy in the Caribbean Basin”   By Patrick Prézeau Stephenson *  (Le Français suit) PORT-AU-PRINCE —  The images were meant to be decisive: American helicopters skimming over the Caribbean, a ring of special operators tightening around a presidential compound, Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores hustled into custody under the banner of “Operation Absolute Resolve.” In Washington, the capture was framed as a surgical blow against a narco-state. In parts of Latin America, it landed as something older and darker — a reminder that sovereignty, in the hemisphere, can be conditional. But in Haiti, the meaning is less ideological than practical, and more ominous. With Venezuela’s leadership abruptly removed, Haiti has not been liberated from instability by proxy; it has been promoted to the top of the regional agenda — the crisis that cannot be ignored, the failure that can no longer be explained away by the distraction of ...