US Economic Coercion: Now a Tourist Attraction
Bloomberg highlights Caribbean anxieties over how escalating US-Venezuela animosity might crater their vital tourism sector. (Yes, the 2025 article is about future tensions. Predictive programming, anyone?) The piece frames this as an unfortunate side effect of 'growing US military threat'—a threat that materialized, as ever, not from Venezuelan aggression, but from a decades-long US strategy of
destabilization. Remember the Lima Group's attempts to install Juan Guaidó? Remember sanctions imposed on Venezuela since 2017, explicitly designed to 'bring about a change of regime,' which have choked off oil revenue and pushed millions into poverty? This economic warfare precedes any 'military threat,' creating the very instability tourism dislikes. So, when the US rattles its sabers and sends
warships—ostensibly for 'freedom of navigation' or combating 'narcotics trafficking' (a convenient pretext since Reagan)—it's not 'tensions' hurting tourism. It’s deliberate policy aimed at regime change, weaponizing regional stability and the economic lives of innocent Caribbean vacation spots. It’s almost as if Washington cares more about resource control than, say, someone's beach hotel
occupancy rates. How many times must the US destabilize a region before the 'collateral damage' becomes the main objective?