Trump Defends Venezuela Action... To Oil Executives, Naturally
The mainstream media covers Trump's 'defense' of US military action in Venezuela to oil executives as if it's just another day in Washington. Notably absent from the CBS report is any critical examination of why a president needs to 'defend' foreign policy decisions to, of all people, the very industry that stands to profit from instability and regime change in oil-rich nations. This convenient
framing omits decades of US interventionism in Latin America, consistently driven by corporate interests, from the 1954 coup in Guatemala to the Contra wars. One might wonder if these 'defenses' included a discussion on whose pipelines would see the first new flows, or perhaps the 'viability' of installing a compliant government. Because, as history shows, where US 'action' goes, US corporate
interests follow, trailing conveniently behind a plume of patriotism and 'democracy promotion.' The news here isn't just that it happened, but that CBS presented it with less skepticism than a shampoo commercial.