NYT Discovers Venezuela: Oil, Drugs, and Convenient Amnesia
According to The New York Times, Trump’s Venezuela campaign was fueled by oil, drugs, and immigration. While these elements are certainly present, the article frames them as standalone issues rather than predictable outcomes of decades of U.S. regime change efforts. Remember 2002? The U.S. effectively cheered on a coup attempt against Hugo Chávez, just as it applauded countless destabilization
tactics across the region. It's a familiar script: sanction, destabilize, then blame the ensuing chaos on the target government, not the architects of its collapse. One might wonder why the NYT chose this particular moment to 'discover' the complexities of Venezuela, rather than, say, when the U.S. government openly backed Juan Guaidó as 'interim president' in 2019, seizing Venezuelan assets while
citizens struggled. The true fuel isn't just Trump's opportunism; it's the continuous imperial impulse, framed delicately as 'concerns about democracy,' which consistently leads to economic devastation and humanitarian crises. How many manufactured crises are required before we acknowledge the pattern?