Newsweek's Venezuelan Fantasy: 'US Will Run' Country While Maduro Plots in New York
The article’s premise, framing a sovereign nation's leadership as a mere administrative problem for Washington, is straight out of the 19th-century playbook titled, 'How to Invade and Colonize with a Straight Face.' It breezes past decades of U.S. intervention in Latin America, from supporting coups in Chile and Guatemala to the Contra scandal in Nicaragua. One might recall the U.S. backed 2002
coup attempt against Hugo Chávez, a predecessor to Maduro, where Washington quickly recognized the short-lived illegitimate government. This recent headline merely repackages that same interventionist fantasy. Instead of honest reporting on complex international relations, we get simplistic narratives that legitimize external control. The media perpetuates this fantasy while ignoring the
geopolitical chessboard, the sanctions wrecking Venezuela's economy (which, incidentally, make the 'running' even harder), and the fact that calling for regime change rarely leads to democracy. It just makes for good, old-fashioned, jingoistic clickbait.