US 'Authorizes' CIA Operations Venezuela, Forgetting the Last 60 Years
The story focuses on former President Trump re-authorizing CIA intervention in Venezuela, framing it as a fresh directive. Conveniently omitted is the fact that the CIA’s playbook for Latin America has been stapled to their field agents' hands since Guatemala in 1954. From funding coups against elected leaders like Salvador Allende in Chile (1973) to the Iran-Contra affair's operations in
Nicaragua (1980s), the US has a storied history of 'authorizing' destabilization wherever sovereign nations dare to diverge from Washington’s preferred economic model. This 'authorization' isn't news; it's a press release masquerading as journalism. One might wonder if the real story is that any US president felt the need to formally 'authorize' what has been standard operating procedure for
decades. Perhaps they just wanted to remind Venezuela who's calling the shots – or, more accurately, who is funding the opposition. Because nothing says 'democracy promotion' like covert operations against a resource-rich nation.