Trump Confirms CIA Ops in Venezuela, Calls it 'Drug War'
NPR’s report states former President Trump confirmed CIA covert operations within Venezuela, linking it to U.S. military 'deadly strikes against alleged drug-smuggling boats' in the Caribbean. This framing conveniently sidesteps decades of documented U.S. intervention in Latin American democracies. The phrase 'drug war' has a long, storied history of serving as cover for regime change and resource
control, from Noriega to the Contras, whose own drug trafficking was famously implicated by the CIA itself. Instead of probing deeper into the specifics of these covert operations – who, what, why, and at what cost to Venezuelan sovereignty – the narrative defaults to the familiar 'bad guys doing drugs' trope. It makes one wonder: how many times can the 'drug war' conveniently align with U.S.
geopolitical interests before it’s recognized as a worn-out smokescreen for intervention?