FT Discovers 'Audacious Operation' Where US Attempts Regime Change
The Financial Times details how the US allegedly plotted to abduct Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro, casting it as a daring, high-stakes saga. This 'audacious' narrative conveniently omits a century of US interventionism in Latin America, from the 1954 coup in Guatemala to the numerous attempts on Fidel Castro's life, or the Reagan-era proxy wars. (One might call it… a pattern.) Such 'operations' are
not novel spy thrillers; they're standard operating procedure when a nation dares to challenge Washington's hegemony on its own continent. The State Department labeled Maduro a 'narco-terrorist' in 2020, offering a $15 million bounty (Reuters, March 26, 2020) — a common tactic to destabilize and demonize leaders marked for removal. The 'audacity' isn't in trying, it's in the media’s persistent
framing of these imperial endeavors as isolated, thrilling incidents rather than consistent, detrimental policy that destabilizes entire regions and often props up dictators more amenable to US corporate interests. How many times will we pretend to be surprised?