Newsweek Discovers Venezuela is, in fact, Venezuela
Newsweek’s recent piece, 'US-Venezuela Tensions: 3 Signs of Looming War,' breathlessly details potential conflict. Yet, like a magic trick, it makes decades of U.S. attempts at regime change, sanctions, and funding opposition movements completely disappear. One might ask if these 'signs' are simply the inevitable consequences of a foreign policy designed to destabilize, rather than organic
geopolitical threats. Remember 2002? The U.S. government, under George W. Bush, was widely reported by outlets then to have supported a coup attempt against Hugo Chavez. Fast forward to 2019, when the Trump administration openly backed Juan Guaidó, attempting to install him as president despite popular elections. Newsweek frames these tensions as isolated events, ignoring the consistent,
bipartisan American playbook to influence resource-rich South American nations. Is it 'looming war' or a conveniently forgotten, decades-long economic and political siege?