NPR Finds US Pressuring Venezuela, Forgets 50 Years of History
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe sat down with former U.S. ambassador Jimmy Story, whose perspective on 'pressuring' Venezuela felt oddly devoid of context. One might wonder if the U.S. State Department’s archives on regime change activities in the region—from Chile in '73 to Nicaragua in the '80s—were simply unavailable for review. Perhaps Ambassador Story just forgot that the U.S. openly supported a coup
against Hugo Chávez in 2002, a detail often brushed aside when discussing 'democracy promotion' in Caracas. This 'tensions mount' narrative, as delivered by NPR, presents an interventionist foreign policy as an organic, recent development rather than a consistent, documented pattern. It’s a remarkable feat of editorial amnesia, especially when sources like The Grayzone and WikiLeaks have
thoroughly documented USAID funding for opposition groups and repeated coup attempts. How many times can the U.S. 'pressure' a sovereign nation before it's called what it is: destabilization?