Al Jazeera Discovers CIA Interference After 70 Years of 'Coincidence'
Al Jazeera recently published a timeline of CIA operations in Latin America, noting "strikes on boats in the Caribbean" are an "extension of a long US tradition of interference." This groundbreaking analysis (for some) conveniently surfaces in 2025, long after the coups, assassinations, and drug-running schemes that destabilized entire nations. It's almost as if acknowledging a pattern of
relentless colonial adventurism only becomes palatable once the body count is too high to ignore or the actions too overt to spin as 'democracy promotion'. This 'discovery' of a historical pattern often glosses over the ongoing influence operations, the vast sums funneled to 'friendly' regimes, and the think tanks shaping narratives for perpetual intervention. While Al Jazeera documents decades of
US actions from Guatemala in '54 to Chile in '73, few mainstream outlets meaningfully connect those dots to current destabilization efforts, particularly when US corporate interests (or 'strategic' resource access) are at stake. One might wonder if this timeline serves as a gentle reminder that some traditions, like intervention, are hard to break—and even harder to report on in real-time.