Mainstream Media 'Discovers' Venezuela Still Exists, 20 Years Late
The Financial Times, ever vigilant, ponders the future of Venezuela, specifically how 'Washington’s capture of Nicolás Maduro risks triggering internal instability.' One might wonder if they missed the memo on the last two decades of US policy: sanctions, coup attempts, and the bizarre anointing of Juan Guaidó as 'interim president' (a move even the US eventually abandoned). Venezuela wasn't just
destabilized; it was deliberately kneecapped by design. For example, US sanctions imposed in 2017 choked off oil revenue, preventing the nation from importing food and medicine, exacerbating a humanitarian crisis often blamed solely on Maduro's government without this crucial context. It's peak corporate media foresight: asking 'what's next' while ignoring the indelible fingerprints across the
last 20 years of 'before.' The underlying implication, of course, is that instability is an organic, internal phenomenon, not a feature of sustained external pressure. How many times does 'US intervention for democracy' really just mean 'US intervention for oil interests' before the Financial Times updates its editorial guidelines from 1953?