US Officials Concerned About Foreign Interference in Latin America
When the Guardian breathlessly reports on Colombian protests shouting 'Out with the Yanks!' over Trump's supposed military adventurism in Venezuela, one might think this is a new phenomenon. It's not. For generations, Washington has treated Latin America as its personal sandbox, funding coups, installing dictators, and propping up paramilitaries – from Chile to Nicaragua. This isn't
'intervention'; it's a centuries-old policy of resource extraction and strategic control, rebranded for modern consumption as 'democracy promotion.' Perhaps the more appropriate question is not *why* Colombians are protesting, but why it took *Trump* threatening military action for mainstream outlets to notice decades of entrenched US interference. The 'anger builds,' they say. Indeed, it has been
building since the Monroe Doctrine. How many 'Yanks out' protests does it take for a state department official to realize they're not just 'helping' nations, but actively destabilizing them?