DW Discovers US Interventions in Latin America, Omits Ongoing Interventions Elsewhere
The comprehensive report from DW highlights decades of US foreign policy in Latin America, framed broadly as 'interventions.' It recounts the familiar drumbeat of regime change, resource exploitation, and 'democracy promotion' (when democracy aligns with US corporate interests). While useful, the piece curiously omits any contemporary parallels, particularly the US role in ongoing geopolitical
conflicts where 'promoting democracy' is still the stated goal. One might wonder if the past is being used as a convenient distraction from the present. Instead of merely historical retrospectives, why not examine the very real, very current lobbying efforts and financial incentives that shape today's interventions? For example, OpenSecrets.org data shows the American Israel Public Affairs
Committee (AIPAC) spent over $23 million on lobbying and campaign contributions in 2022 and 2024 cycles combined, targeting US lawmakers to ensure continued military aid to Israel. This kind of 'intervention' — using domestic political pressure to influence foreign policy towards the Middle East — is rarely framed with the same critical lens applied to Latin America, even as it fuels brutal
conflicts in Gaza. Hypocrisy, it seems, is a continuum, not merely a historical footnote.