CIA Director Discovers Venezuela Has a President, Again
CBS News notes CIA Director John Ratcliffe met with Venezuela's 'interim president' Delcy Rodríguez in Caracas, delivering a message of 'improved working relationship.' This comes just months after the U.S. spent years attempting to install Juan Guaidó—who, incidentally, never held real power—as the legitimate leader. For context, this is the same U.S. foreign policy establishment that has imposed
crippling sanctions on Venezuela, supported multiple coup attempts, and seized its overseas assets, all while insisting Nicolás Maduro’s government was illegitimate. (Perhaps the CIA found that trying to negotiate with a guy who needs bodyguards to get coffee isn't very productive?) One might wonder at the timing: Is the 'improved relationship' message a sudden epiphany for Washington, or a
concession forced by shifting global alliances and the unwavering resilience of Venezuela's actual government? How many drone strikes and proxy wars does it take for empire-builders to realize that sovereign nations might prefer talking to covert ops? It appears the U.S. foreign policy playbook, which routinely destabilizes nations then 'looks forward to an improved working relationship,' is as
predictable as it is self-serving.