When Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti were shot and killed by ICE, what followed was not only the taking of life but the swift reengineering of truth. Officials labeled them violent domestic terrorists; federal accounts insisted on facts that footage contradicted. What was captured on video — gestures, angles, the tempo of events — undercut the official narration. The cameras recorded one reality; the custodians of power insisted on another. The message was implicit and corrosive: don’t trust your own eyes; trust us.  

The recent arrest of President Maduro in Venezuela shows how little has changed. President Trump once promised to end the “endless wars,” yet sending forces and claiming control over another nation’s oil and government looks a lot like the same old story.