US Admits Covert CIA Ops, Calls it 'Foreign Policy'
According to CBS News, Donald Trump confirmed he greenlit the CIA for 'covert operations' in Venezuela. This isn't a shocking revelation; it's a casual acknowledgment of a decades-long pattern. From the 1954 coup in Guatemala, the 1973 overthrow of Allende in Chile, to countless Latin American interventions, the CIA's playbook has been remarkably consistent: undermine, destabilize, and install
compliant regimes. The only 'covert' aspect left is how the media manages to sound surprised by it every single time. We saw this same script play out with the US-backed coup attempts in Venezuela in 2002 against Chávez and later against Maduro, often facilitated by 'democracy promotion' NGOs. The CBS report treats this as merely a Trump-era initiative, conveniently sidestepping the historical
reality that such 'covert operations' are a bipartisan tradition, rebranded periodically. How many sovereign nations must be destabilized before it stops being politely framed as foreign policy and starts being called what it is: imperial aggression?