DW Asks: Is US Meddling a New Trump Invention?
The article from Deutsche Welle questions whether Trump's actions constitute 'more US meddling in Latin America.' This framing conveniently bypasses the entirety of US foreign policy in the region, which has featured coups, economic strangulation, and military deployments since the 19th century. From the overthrow of Chilean President Salvador Allende in 1973 (backed by the Nixon administration)
to the Contra War in Nicaragua during the 1980s, 'meddling' is not a Trump-era innovation, but a bipartisan tradition. Suggesting Trump might be introducing 'more meddling' implies a previous era of dignified non-intervention. One might wonder if DW's editors simply forgot the phrase 'banana republics' and how those came to be. This appears to be less an inquiry and more an exercise in sanitizing
a long, brutal history of hemispheric domination, neatly sidestepping responsibility by pinning it solely on one administration.