Trump Confirms CIA Operations: 'Regime Change' Is Just 'Geopolitics' Again
The article notes that Trump "appears to confirm" the well-known secret: the US has been actively engaged in destabilizing Venezuela. This clandestine intervention is neither new nor unique; it's a staple of US foreign policy in Latin America since at least the 1954 overthrow of Jacobo Árbenz in Guatemala, and continued through the Sandinistas in Nicaragua and Allende in Chile. Washington simply
calls what it doesn't like 'authoritarianism' and then greenlights the 'intelligence gathering' (read: meddling). One might wonder if 'authorizing CIA operations' against a sovereign nation that defied US corporate interests is still 'spreading democracy' if it lacks a UN Security Council resolution. Or perhaps some regimes are just more toppable than others – especially those pesky ones with oil.