NEW YORK

SITTING IN HIS Manhattan cell, Nicolas Maduro has a target on his back. And somewhere out there is an assassin trying to hit it.

“Like that character, Anton Chigur, in Cormac McCarthy’s No Country For Old Men,” says DEA Agent, Doug. “They’ll send a real son of a bitch for this guy. Or maybe they’ll go after the wife first. That’s how the cartels work. And this time they’re allied to all kinds of slippery regimes. He’s a liability for so many. They all need to shut him up. So, for us, it’s all eyes on everyone, everywhere. We have to keep him alive. They have to kill him. Or have him kill himself. That might be where the wife becomes a pressure point. There might be teams of assassins, multiple Chigurs, on his tail. Or just a photograph of his wife in her cell.”