I started my post with: “Well, now we’re banned from using the word “kidnapped”.”
What the hell is wrong with that? They were kidnapped! Many people seem to be pussyfooting around the word presumably because kidnapped sounds too severe. But the kidnapping WAS severe, as was the entire event in which 80 or so Venezuelan and Cuban people were killed, as you yourself have pointed out Pat with the picture showing at least some of the injuries inflicted on Cilia Adela Flores. I was having a go at people who refuse to call a spade a spade by my use of the ridiculous “wafting” instead of “kidnapped”. I was not in anyway trying to make light of the injuries suffered by Cilia Adela Flores or anyone else who’s been violently attacked; exactly the opposite in fact. “Kidnapped” should have been the word used IMO and not some pansy b/s or “wafting” for Christs sake. Anyway Alexander Mercouris said “kidnapped” so there!