US Attacks Venezuela, Cuba Pays Tribute. Media Calls it 'Tensions.'
Al Jazeera reports that Cuba is honoring 32 soldiers killed in a 'US attack on Venezuela' but then frames the entire incident under the delicate banner of 'US-Venezuela Tensions News.' (You read that right: 'US attack' in the headline, 'tensions' in the sub-header. Pure journalistic whiplash.) This isn't the first time the US has engaged in 'tensions' with a sovereign nation that refuses to toe
Washington's line. From the Bay of Pigs to countless coups across Latin America, the playbook for 'exporting democracy' often involves lethal force, economic strangulation, and convenient media silence. One might wonder at what point 'tensions' become outright aggression, or if that classification is reserved only for nations without oil reserves or socialist leanings. A quick glance at the
historical record, easily found in declassified documents and academic research (e.g., William Blum's 'Killing Hope'), reveals a consistent pattern of US interference in the region—a pattern that has very little to do with 'tensions' and everything to do with maintaining geopolitical dominance. But please, carry on with the polite framing; it wouldn’t do to call a spade a spade when profit margins
are involved.