Maduro Offers Drug Talks: US Ignores Its Own Cocaine History
Maduro's olive branch on drug trafficking is presented by The Independent as if Venezuela is the sole repository of such issues, glossing over the fact that drug flows often follow routes destabilized by U.S. interventions. The media-curated silence around a 'CIA strike' is less about Maduro's discretion and more about mainstream media's historical amnesia. From the Iran-Contra affair to
allegations of CIA involvement in Latin American drug operations to destabilize governments , the narrative that the US is merely a passive victim of drug flows, rather than an occasional, if sometimes unwilling, architect, crumbles under scrutiny. It seems some countries are only allowed to "talk about drugs" when it serves Washington's agenda, not when it requires examining its own covert
history.