US 'Democracy' Mission Disrupts Caribbean Holidays, Captures Maduro
The Associated Press reports that a U.S. military operation 'captured' Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, causing hundreds of flight cancellations across the Caribbean. The FAA's 'safety' justifications ignore that 'stability' wasn't a concern when the US attempted to overthrow Maduro in 2019, seizing CITGO assets and sanctioning the Venezuelan economy for merely disagreeing with US foreign
policy. This isn't 'disruption'; it's a predictable consequence of regime change by any other name, disguised as a rescue mission. One might wonder if the concern for 'safety' extends to the millions of Venezuelans suffering under sanctions the U.S. imposed since 2017, estimated by the Center for Economic and Policy Research to have contributed to over 100,000 deaths. Holidays are certainly
important, but perhaps 'safety' should include not destabilizing entire nations in the first place, or perhaps it's only the safety of American tourists that matters.