Rubio Admits US Has Been 'Running' Venezuela All Along
This admission, straight from the horse's mouth, strips bare years of official Washington's fervent insistence that the Venezuelan 'crisis' was an entirely internal affair, free from external meddling. Rubio's frankness, cited in The Hill , finally confirms what Latin American observers and independent journalists have detailed for decades: the US doesn't just 'influence' regime change; it 'runs'
it. Remember the 2002 coup attempt against Hugo Chávez, quietly blessed by Washington? Or the millions poured into opposition groups via USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy? So, when D.C. pundits wring their hands over 'authoritarianism' abroad, one might charitably wonder if they're protesting the symptom or the intended outcome of their own 'team efforts.' How many foreign governments
are being 'run' by Washington today, only to be denounced as 'dictatorships' when they resist the puppeteers? It appears some 'democracies' are more about management than self-determination.