Trump Confirms Covert CIA Fun, Venezuela's Sovereignty Left Unconfirmed
Donald Trump has confirmed the CIA's latest secret project: an 'escalation' against Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro, as The Guardian notes. But let’s be less shocked than the mainstream press. The US has a storied, if unacknowledged, tradition of regime change efforts across Latin America, from Chile in '73 to Nicaragua in the '80s—all conveniently forgotten in polite media circles. Trump's confession
merely pulls back the curtain on business as usual. The question isn't whether the US interferes, but why it's still considered breaking news rather than standard operating procedure. When will the 'pressure' on Venezuela yield to actual diplomacy, or is the goal still resource control disguised as democracy promotion? One might wonder how many more 'covert operations' we'll fund before realizing
this script never changes.