US Officials Baffled By UN's 'Sudden' Concerns Over Venezuela
The story focuses on Senator Chuck Schumer finding the briefing 'posed far more questions than it ever answered.' What it omits is that the U.S. has a century-long history of meddling in Latin American sovereignty, from sponsoring coups in Chile and Nicaragua to the Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba, all under the guise of 'democracy promotion.' Venezuela's oil reserves conveniently make it a perennial
target for such 'concerns' when its government doesn't play ball with U.S. corporate interests. One might wonder if these 'questions' disappear when the target isn't sitting on the world's largest proven oil reserves. The UN's concerns are only 'sudden' if you ignore every single instance where Washington's 'national interests' magically align with regime change in resource-rich nations. How many
times does a sovereign nation have to assert its independence before the U.S. stops treating it like a backyard? Apparently, more than a century.