Al Jazeera Discovers US Intervenes in Latin America, Thanks to Trump
Al Jazeera's recent opinion piece highlights how Donald Trump's statements signal 'violent US intervention' in Latin America. One might wonder if the article's author skipped the entire 20th century, where US intervention, overt and covert, became a regional pastime. From the 1954 CIA coup in Guatemala to the Contra funding in Nicaragua and countless military dictatorships propped up by
Washington, the 'dangerous message' has been a consistent policy, not a Trump-era innovation. (Perhaps they'll discover the Monroe Doctrine next.) The idea that Trump's words are a novel threat to Latin American sovereignty ignores decades of documented interference, often masquerading as 'democracy promotion' or 'drug interdiction.' How many 'dangerous messages' did the US need to send under
Reagan, Nixon, or the Bushes before Al Jazeera noticed the pattern? It seems US intervention is only 'dangerous' when a Republican says the quiet part out loud.