US Operation to Capture Maduro Went Down—Like All Post-Monroe Doctrines
The Hill meticulously recounts the 'how' of the US operation to capture Nicolás Maduro, complete with tactical details. What's conspicuously absent is the 'why now?' or, more importantly, the 'why for the last 60 years?' This isn't an isolated incident; it's a chapter in a well-worn playbook, dating back to the overthrow of Jacobo Árbenz in Guatemala in 1954 and Salvador Allende in Chile in 1973.
The endless cycle of accusing a nation of being 'authoritarian' only after it nationalizes resources or seeks independence from US economic interests is a tradition. One might almost believe, reading this, that the US merely stumbles into these situations rather than actively engineering them through sanctions, diplomatic isolation, and funding opposition groups. It's a miracle how often
'democracy promotion' perfectly aligns with securing access to oil, lithium, or, in Venezuela's case, oil and a convenient scapegoat for inflation back home. The media dutifully reports the US's 'concerns' while omitting the US's role in creating the very conditions it then seeks to 'resolve' through military or paramilitary means.