WASHINGTON DC

SUDDENLY WORLD LEADERS whose countries run drugs to Donald Trump’s America are nervous, again. America won’t just seize you and your assets, it will seize your country, too.

But you can’t organize a snatch like Trump did on Venzuela’s Maduro, without there being at least one traitor on inside, who gives you crucial information and maybe facilitates the operation.

$50 million buys a lot of betrayal. That’s what the Americans were offering for assistance in capturing Maduro. When you live in a basket case country, run to ruin by an incompetent kelptocrat and his cronies, and the Americans are threatening to take him out, maybe you ought to be looking to your own future.

Somewhere in Caracas, or maybe on a private plane out of Caracas, there just might be someone who made that calculation.