Bloomberg Discovers US Aims for Oil, Not Democracy, Near Venezuela
Mainstream media, ever on the pulse of groundbreaking revelations, just ran a video where former Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA) stated, unequivocally, that US 'aggression near Venezuela is 'oil based.'' Not drug trafficking, mind you, but good old-fashioned petroleum. This isn't exactly news to anyone who wasn't born yesterday, or who paid a modicum of attention to US foreign policy in Latin America
since, oh, 1954. While Bloomberg frames this as a fresh take, it’s a standard operating procedure memory-holed by corporate media. From the coups in Chile (1973), Nicaragua (various), or even the 2002 coup attempt against Hugo Chávez himself, 'democracy' has always smelled suspiciously like crude oil and banana republics. Riggleman's admission merely confirms what independent journalists and Latin
American leaders have been screaming for decades. The real scandal isn't his admission; it's the media pretending it's a profound insight from a lone maverick, rather than acknowledging this open secret underpins decades of US intervention.