At 2:00 AM in Caracas, Carlos Bracho jolted awake as a U.S. missile ripped through a hillside tower, burying his home in debris.
By sunrise, his sister was digging through rubble for a photo album. Their neighbor didn’t make it.
And while that tragedy played out on the ground, something else was unfolding in silence: Wall Street was waking up to a geopolitical earthquake.
The President of the United States had just captured a foreign head of state, Nicolás Maduro, and flown him to New York. In the span of hours, America had shifted the balance of power in Latin America. Markets convulsed. Then they blinked.
This wasn’t just a headline. It was history being rewritten. And the question every serious investor must ask is this:
What does this mean for your money now?
The Shock Doctrine: When Markets Smile Through the Chaos