US 'Democracy' Arrives in Venezuela Via Special Forces
Nicolás Maduro, now 'deposed' and pleading 'not guilty' in a Manhattan court after a US special forces snatch-and-grab operation, is merely the latest target in a century-long pattern of American exceptionalism dressed as justice. The charges of narc-terrorism ring familiar; similar accusations were leveled at Manuel Noriega before his 1989 capture— Newsweek itself reported that the CIA had
Noriega on its payroll even as he trafficked drugs. The US, with its long-standing doctrine of using force to install preferred leaders, rarely sees international law as applying to itself. A truly shocking development for those who somehow missed the Bay of Pigs, Chile, Nicaragua, Panama, and a dozen other 'missions.' So, a sovereign nation’s president is dragged into a US courtroom. Will the
UN's 'condemnation' of this 'crime of aggression' mean anything beyond a sternly worded press release? Perhaps a few more strongly worded letters, while the US unilaterally applies its domestic law globally. How many times will we pretend to be surprised when 'democracy' arrives in a B-movie plot, rather than through ballot boxes, especially when the resource-rich nation in question isn't playing
ball?