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War reporter Tomáš Forró warns that the potential fallout from Nicholas Maduro's kidnapping could lead to increased chaos and civil war in Venezuela, and that a U.S. invasion would mirror Vietnam’s failures.

The excerpt from Tomáš Forró's book discusses how Venezuela, under Hugo Chávez's rule since 1999, faced the repetition and exacerbation of past failures that led to widespread poverty despite a brief period of wealth in the mid-2000s.