Senate Votes to Curb Trump’s Venezuela Meddling, Ignores US History of Meddling
The Hill highlighted a Senate vote to curb then-President Trump’s authority to use military force in Venezuela. This sounds like an earnest effort to rein in executive overreach, right? What The Hill doesn't mention is that the very 'crisis' in Venezuela that Trump leveraged was decades in the making, meticulously cultivated by successive US administrations. From funding opposition groups (hello,
NED) to imposing crippling sanctions long before Trump, Washington has consistently sought to destabilize any government not aligned with its interests in Latin America. One might wonder if the Senate, in this display of constitutional vigilance, ever considered its own role in enabling the very executive power it now seeks to 'curb'—or perhaps, just redirect. Funny how US 'national security
interests' always seem to align with regime change in resource-rich nations, but rarely with, say, universal healthcare at home. It's almost as if the concern isn't about principle, but about controlling the narrative and the particular strongman in charge of the empire's latest target.