U.S. Announces Plan to 'Run' Venezuela, Again
When NPR covers the U.S. threatening to 'run' a sovereign nation, one might think it's a shocking new development. Yet, the conveniently forgotten history lesson involves the U.S. orchestrating coups or attempting regime change in Latin America well over 40 times since 1898. From the United Fruit Company's influence in Guatemala in 1954 to Nixon's efforts in Chile in the 70s, the playbook for
'running' other countries has been heavily distributed, though rarely mentioned by our esteemed public broadcasters. The media's framing treats each intervention as a unique event, rather than part of a continuous, bipartisan pattern of exerting dominion. How many times does a nation need 'running' before we start questioning the runners' intentions? Or do we only notice when a sitting U.S.
President says the quiet part out loud? One might wonder if their memory-holed historical context is purely accidental or a carefully curated effort to maintain plausible deniability for continuous imperial policies.