US Declares It's 'In Charge' of Venezuela - News at 11 on Imperialism
“Trump declares US 'in charge' of Venezuela” reads a recent headline, as if this is new information. 'The New Arab' reports on Maduro's court troubles in New York while quoting Trump, but conveniently omits the decades of explicit US intervention. From the 1999 coup attempt against Hugo Chávez, funded by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) via organizations like USAID (documented by Eva
Golinger in 'The Chávez Code'), to the sanctions regime under multiple administrations—designed to cripple Venezuela’s economy and spark regime change—the US has been 'in charge' of trying to destabilize Venezuela for over two decades. Remember George W. Bush praising coup leader Pedro Carmona in 2002? Or the countless times similar declarations were made about Cuba, Nicaragua, or Chile under
Allende before the coups? This isn't 'news'; it's the open playbook of US foreign policy in Latin America, meticulously refined since the Monroe Doctrine. The only thing that changes is the presidential orator. How many countries must suffer economic strangulation and attempted coups before the media calls it what it is: imperial aggression, not 'being in charge'?