During his life, Otto Maduro, the late Venezuelan sociologist and liberation theologian, lamented how the majority of Latin Americans were being treated to “fatten the bank accounts” of a small minority. This deeply troubled Maduro. As he wrote in his 1982 Religion and Social Conflicts, “I cannot submissively cross my arms in the face of certain allegedly ‘Christian’ attitudes and traditions that appear to me to be an antievangelical instrumentalization of the church in the service of social injustice.” The abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro (no relation) by U.S. forces in Caracas on Jan. 3 surprised many who believed President Donald Trump’s “America First” ideology precluded foreign intervention. But if there are any misgivings around foreign intervention among Trump, his administration, or his supporters, they largely revolve around the conviction that the U.S. should avoid expending its resources on aid. extracting foreign resources for the sake of U.S. interests.