NPR Discovers 'Intervention' Has Consequences, Eventually
NPR’s recent piece, focusing on Trump’s Venezuela pressures, suggests that US interventions historically haven’t “always gone as planned.” This is a rather understated way of describing a century of coups, assassinations, and destabilizations – from the 1954 overthrow of Guatemala's democratically elected Arbenz government to supporting brutal dictatorships across the continent. 'Not going as
planned' implies an honest attempt derailed, not a consistent pattern of corporate and geopolitical self-interest. Perhaps the 'plans' were less about democratic uplift and more about securing banana republics for United Fruit or protecting corporate assets, plans that often succeeded wildly for US corporations while devastating local populations. When will the 'historical review' include direct
accountability for the millions displaced and murdered?