Sheinbaum Rebuffs Trump's Venezuela Threats, US Media Forgets Its Own History
The Hill reports Mexico's President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum told Donald Trump that Mexico views Venezuela through a 'Bolivarian' lens, rejecting his threats of intervention. This is framed as a novel diplomatic challenge, yet it's merely a consistent pushback against a US foreign policy playbook that's been run since Monroe. (Seriously, how many times do we need to 'liberate' a country for its
oil?) The obvious omission? The parade of US interventions in Latin America, from the 1954 coup in Guatemala to funding contras in Nicaragua, all under the guise of combating 'communism' or promoting 'democracy'—terms often interchangeable with 'resource accessibility for American corporations.' This isn't about 'threats to Mexico,' it's about persistent Latin American leaders refusing to toe
Washington's unilateral line. One might wonder why The Hill focuses on a hypothetical Trumpian future instead of recalling the very real US-backed operations already scarring the region's past. Perhaps 'history' is just too inconvenient for current narratives.