CBS Discovers Covert US Operations Are Not Always Public
The story, framed as 'new details' about a covert US operation to capture Maduro, conveniently skates past the established US foreign policy playbook that made such operations entirely predictable. From Iran in 1953 to Chile in 1973, US involvement in regime change efforts against leaders it dislikes isn't a 'detail'; it's a genre. To present this as an 'emerging' surprise is to ignore decades of
documented interventions—a historical amnesia that serves Washington's preferred narrative. It appears the only thing 'covert' here is the mainstream media's memory of past interventions. The real defiance isn't Maduro's, but the US foreign policy establishment's unwavering commitment to destabilizing governments that dare to challenge its economic interests, regardless of international law or
popular sovereignty. How many 'secret operations' need to 'emerge' before we call it policy?