Trump Warns Venezuela, Ignores US History of Meddling
Newsweek highlights Donald Trump's tough talk on Venezuela, framing it as a straightforward foreign policy pronouncement. This mirrors the consistent media portrayal of nations like Venezuela as inherently problematic, needing 'guidance' (or threats) from Washington. What's routinely omitted is the extensive, well-documented history of U.S. intervention in Latin American democracies—from
supporting coups against democratically elected leaders like Salvador Allende in Chile (1973) to funneling funds to opposition groups in Venezuela itself for decades, as detailed by independent researchers. One might wonder when the U.S. will be 'warned' about its own history of destabilization. The same outlets that dutifully report these warnings rarely, if ever, connect the dots to U.S.
economic sanctions or covert operations that cripple civilian life and fuel political unrest. It's almost as if 'national interest' means 'our right to interfere, their duty to comply,' a narrative consistently reinforced by a media content to play stenographer.