Calling Nicolas Maduro illegitimate exposes Western hypocrisy over Venezuela’s historic dictators and oil and I've got the receipts! Right, so calling Nicolás Maduro illegitimate has now detonated the entire Western Venezuela narrative, because a sitting president has been seized in the name of democracy while the men who actually cancelled elections, ruled by decree, and filled mass graves before him were treated as trusted partners. That’s the end position. That’s the scandal. And the reason it matters is buried in a history you’re not supposed to line up. So this isn’t a news update. This is checking the receipts. Because this is the same manoeuvre every time. Dictatorship shrugged off when oil stayed obedient. Mass killings tolerated when soldiers were sent into the streets. No sanctions, no indictments, no moral panic — right up until Venezu ...