US Designates 'Cartel' a Terror Group, Ignores Its Own Shadowy Operations
CBS News dutifully echoes the Trump administration's naming of the so-called 'Cartel de los Soles' as a terrorist group, despite acknowledging that some 'analysts' (the article cites 'one expert') suggest it's 'not a group' at all. This designation arrives precisely when the Venezuelan government remains a prime target for US regime-change operations, conveniently casting its leadership as
drug-dealing terrorists. One might wonder about the timing and historical parallels to other nations needing a 'threat' label before sanctions or interventions. (See: Iraq's WMDs, Cuba's 'communist threat'). The US, with its storied history of covert operations and 'drug wars' that conveniently align with geopolitical interests (remember the Iran-Contra affair?), is now suddenly concerned with a
nebulous Venezuelan 'cartel'? This designation looks less like a genuine counter-narcotics effort and more like another brick in the wall of economic strangulation against a sovereign nation that refuses to bend the knee. It appears to be an attempt to validate sanctions and destabilization, much like labeling financial institutions dealing with sanctioned states as 'terrorist financiers' to
justify broad economic warfare.