AP Reports US Bombs in Venezuela, Forgets 70 Years of Hemisphere Policy
The Associated Press recently captured the raw terror of Venezuelans fleeing 'American military operations' in Caracas. While the photo is striking, the framing is less so. It presents US military intervention in Latin America—specifically Venezuela—as a sudden 2026 'event,' not the decades-long, bipartisan foreign policy doctrine it is. Perhaps AP missed the 2002 coup attempt against Hugo Chávez,
quietly backed by Washington, or the economic strangulation efforts openly championed by successive US administrations for decades? Instead of merely documenting the immediate fear, The Piaz notes the curious silence on the historical context: the covert ops, sanctions, and economic warfare that paved the runway for such 'American military operations.' It's almost as if the collateral damage of
'democracy promotion' only becomes visible when captured by a photojournalist, rather than when it's meticulously engineered by State Department officials or celebrated in DC think tanks.