US Decries 'Colonialist Threat' While Threatening Venezuela
President Trump's declaration that airspace 'above and surrounding Venezuela' was suddenly 'closed in its entirety' (per NPR) naturally drew Caracas’s ire, labeling it a 'colonialist threat.' And honestly, when your entire foreign policy toolkit seems to consist of sanctions, coups, and now aerial blockades, that assessment starts looking less like 'propaganda' and more like 'descriptive
analysis.' It’s a familiar pattern, dating back to coups in the 1950s, through the Contra affair, right up to the 2002 attempted coup against Hugo Chávez, quietly blessed by Washington. The US has a long, documented history of treating Latin American nations like backyard vassals. The audacity of accusing another nation of 'colonialism' while actively attempting to control their sovereign airspace
and economy is a rhetorical feat only truly mastered by global superpowers. One has to wonder: how many 'threats to democracy' have been launched from Washington that look an awful lot like resource grabs from anywhere else? (The answer is: many, historically documented).