The flagrant actions of the United States will incentivise power grabs by autocrats the world over – and Cuba may be the next country to be transformed by America’s exploding sphere of influence, says Mary Dejevsky H ow the unilateral action by the US against Venezuela , or more accurately by the Trump administration against President Nicolas Maduro, is assessed will depend entirely on what happens next. However clean an operation it may have been, in terms of capturing Maduro and his wife