The Fall of Maduro: A Political Earthquake That Exposes the Algerian Regime and Its Puppet, the Polisario
The brutal fall of Nicolás Maduro is not only the end of a Latin American dictator; it marks the collapse of an artificial ideological axis built on obsessive hostility toward Morocco. With the arrest of their main ally in Latin America, the Algerian military regime and its terrorist creation, the Polisario, now find themselves naked, isolated, and politically orphaned.
For more than a decade, Algiers found in Maduro a docile partner, ready to instrumentalize Latin American platforms to attack the territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Morocco. A dictator supporting a separatist militia: the alliance was logical, almost natural. Two projects built on the denial of state sovereignty, ideological manipulation, and the confiscation of the will of peoples. Today, this house of cards is collapsing.
The deafening silence of Algeria after Maduro’s arrest speaks volumes. No statement, no fake indignation, no pseudo sovereign posturing. The Algerian military regime knows that by defending Maduro, it would be condemning itself. Because defending a man accused of repression, corruption, and drug trafficking is to acknowledge the ideological kinship that binds Algiers to Caracas.
As for the Polisario, it is losing one of its last sponsors outside Africa. An artificial organization, kept alive by Algerian diplomatic life support, incapable of existing without the protection of authoritarian regimes at the end of their cycle. After the international normalization of the Moroccan identity of the Sahara, after the erosion of European and African support, the fall of Maduro delivers yet another blow to this political fiction.
History is unforgiving: regimes built on lies always end up collapsing. Maduro’s Venezuela is the perfect example. And the Algerian military regime would do well to draw the lessons, because the people do not forget. Neither repression, nor the squandering of wealth, nor the unhealthy obsession with creating artificial conflicts to mask its own internal failures. The fall of Maduro is not an isolated event. It is a warning. And for Algiers as for the Polisario, it is the beginning of a political countdown that no ideological speech will be able to stop.
Translated from Abderrazzak Boussaid’s French article – le7tv
