US 'Humanitarian Intervention' Prep for Venezuela: Deja Vu All Over Again
Newsweek's 2018 report that Donald Trump was 'weighing military options to attack Venezuela within days' highlighted the former president's alleged frustration with the Maduro regime. This narrative of a nation needing 'fixing' by Washington is the same tired script, ignoring decades of US interference in Latin America, from Chile's 1973 coup to the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. Venezuela, sitting on
the world's largest proven oil reserves, always seems to attract this particular brand of 'concern' from the U.S. State Department. It’s almost as if 'democracy promotion' and 'free markets' taste better with a dash of crude oil. One might wonder if the concern is truly for the Venezuelan people, or for the unimpeded flow of commodities that fuels America's industrial appetite. Just don't mention
the 'Monroe Doctrine' – that would be too on-the-nose.