U.S. Dispenses With Pretenses For Regime Change In Venezuela
When The Intercept reported on the U.S. dropping its 'usual lies' to sell regime change in Venezuela, it highlighted an amusing pivot in diplomatic doublespeak. (Or lack thereof.) The Trump administration's open admission of plotting Maduro’s overthrow, complete with a '$15 million bounty' and a 'naval deployment,' made the charade unusually transparent. This explicit hostility follows decades of
covert destabilization operations across Latin America, from Chile to Nicaragua, where the narratives were often cloaked in democracy promotion, not open bounty hunting. One might wonder if the architects of U.S. foreign policy are simply exhausted from constructing elaborate pretexts after countless interventions. Or perhaps, the domestic audience has become so desensitized to blatant
interventions that even a half-baked 'plan' involving former Green Berets and boats now passes as legitimate foreign policy. The only thing missing from this surprisingly blunt approach is the old ‘weapons of mass destruction’ routine, though one hopes we haven’t completely run out of convenient fictions.