As the White House toys with the no-joke prospect of actually invading Venezuela out of (understandable) ire at the government of (reprehensible) strongman Nicolas Maduro, a damning new Human Rights Watch report says that 252 Venezuelans, many of them political refugees from the socialist dictator, that the Trump administration recently deported to an infamous mega-prison in El Salvador “were subjected to constant beatings and other forms of ill-treatment, including some cases of sexual violence. Many of these abuses constitute torture under international human rights law.”

So we station the giant aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford off the Venezuelan coast to put the fear of yet another Yanqui regime-change invasion in Latin America into Maduro, and then we send Venezuelan dissidents from

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