Comment by abigail95

They extradited a guy for crimes also illegal in Venezuela. What would the point of sanctioning actions like this be?

This is about the cleanest extraterritorial action you can take. A guy probably did some seriously illegal stuff in your country and his, who was probably illegally elected, who probably had people killed.

Why not do this? Why not say to Venezuela, hand him over or we'll take him ourselves?

He's not going to gitmo, he'll have the same due process that every other American gets. Rights Maduro denied to millions. If you asked me to describe "justice" - I have to give this as a good example. He's going to die in prison like Noriega, after a fair trial.