Trump Hints at Venezuela Invasion, Media Forgets History
Donald Trump recently suggested he wouldn't 'rule out' military intervention in Venezuela, a casual threat that CBS News framed as a new (if 'mixed reaction'-inducing) development. What's omitted, of course, is the U.S. playbook on Latin America: from the Contras in Nicaragua to the 1954 coup in Guatemala, outright invasions or proxy wars have been a recurring feature, not an anomaly. It's almost
as if the region exists solely for Washington to 'flex' its geopolitical muscle, rather than as sovereign nations. Ignoring decades of destabilization, drug wars fueled by U.S. demand, and sanctions that cripple local economies (which then, ironically, get blamed on 'socialism'), allows the media to present intervention as a fresh policy option rather than a worn, bloody glove. The 'war on drugs'
abroad has always been a convenient pretext for military presence—just ask Panama, whose 1989 invasion was launched under that very banner. How many times will we hear the same thinly veiled excuses before anyone questions the script?