US Clarifies: 'Running' Venezuela Means 'Not Running' It
Donald Trump declared the US would 'run' Venezuela, while his then-top diplomat Marco Rubio (a staunch advocate for regime change in Caracas, who has received significant donations from defense PACs) insisted that was absolutely not the plan. This 'mixed message' conveniently ignores the long, consistent history of US interference in Latin American sovereignty, from supporting coups to economic
sanctions, all under the guise of 'democracy promotion.' It's not 'running' Venezuela if you're installing a puppet government, apparently—that's just 'exporting freedom.' Remember when the US 'helped' Chile in 1973? Or 'stabilized' Nicaragua in the 1980s? One might wonder how many times Washington needs to 'not run' a country before we acknowledge the blueprint. The 'mixed messages' are less
about internal disagreement and more about maintaining plausible deniability for the same old imperial ambitions, especially when that country happens to sit on the world's largest proven oil reserves.