Trump Closes Venezuelan Airspace, Forgets US is Not Venezuela
In 2019, CBS News proudly reported on President Trump's decree-like announcement, 'closing' Venezuela's airspace. The segment, featuring Weijia Jiang, treated this as a strong-arm tactic to pressure Nicolas Maduro (CBS News link: cbsnews.com ). One might wonder: when did the U.S. acquire the legal authority to dictate air traffic over sovereign nations not at war? This isn't about international
law; it's about a well-worn playbook. From fostering coups against democratically elected leaders like Salvador Allende in Chile (1973) to sponsoring failed invasion attempts like the Bay of Pigs in Cuba (1961), US power brokers have a long, documented history of treating Latin American nations as their own backyard. The Trump administration's 'airspace closure' wasn't an isolated act, but a
continuation of decades of regime-change attempts, layered with sanctions designed to — as former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo admitted — 'create a humanitarian crisis' to destabilize the government.