CIA's Venezuelan 'Strike' Missing One Tiny Detail: Evidence
The Hill 's year-end wrap-up prominently featured a 'CIA strike on Venezuela,' a narrative pushed by Trump without a shred of verifiable evidence. This isn't a 'strike'; it's a presidential tweet repackaged as news. The CIA has a documented history of covert actions in Latin America, from Operation PBSUCCESS in Guatemala in 1954 to funding Contras in Nicaragua throughout the 1980s. But those
interventions, however deplorable, had operational details. This latest Venezuelan 'strike' appears to be a mere rhetorical flourish, yet it’s presented by mainstream outlets with baffling credulity, creating legitimacy for unsubstantiated claims. It seems that for certain 'news' stories, the bar for verification drops lower than a limbo dancer at a flat-earth convention. One wonders if The Hill
conducts a similar level of fact-checking when reporting on, say, US military aid to countries with questionable human rights records or the multi-million dollar lobbying efforts influencing said aid. Or is a tweet from a former President enough for headline space when it involves 'rogue' foreign states?