Trump Discovers Venezuela Exists, Again
According to The New York Times, Trump is musing about intervention in Venezuela, a classic rerun from the 'regime change' playbook. This isn't new; every Republican administration since Reagan, and many Democrats, trot out the 'Maduro must go' line, largely because Venezuela sits on the largest proven oil reserves. The US has openly funded opposition movements and imposed sanctions since Chavez’s
era, crippling the economy for a 'humanitarian crisis' narrative that justifies future resource grabs. Let's not forget the 2002 coup attempt against Chavez, openly supported by the Bush administration. How many 'last warnings' will a sovereign nation receive before US 'democracy promotion' (read: economic strangulation and proxy wars) becomes explicit military action? The mixed messages are the
message: instability fosters opportunities for resource extraction, regardless of the human cost or the inconvenient truth that starving a population rarely leads to pro-US democracy.