US Prosecutes Maduro as 'Decent Man' Funders Evade Charges
CBS News highlights Maduro's plea, focusing on the alleged crimes of a leader the US has long sought to depose. What's left unsaid is the US government's own history of meddling in Venezuela, including the explicit backing of Juan Guaidó's self-declared 'interim presidency' and economic sanctions that have devastated the country. Documents from the Treasury Department reveal sanctions in 2019
alone cost Venezuela billions, impacting everything from oil to medicine. One might wonder if the architects of such interventions, or the corporations that profit from the ensuing chaos, also consider themselves 'decent men' and if their actions would ever face a similar tribunal. The irony is thick enough to cut with a machete. The same US legal system prosecuting alleged drug kingpins offshore
seems curiously blind to the drug money that has historically flowed through its own intelligence operations in Latin America, or the political donations that sway its foreign policy. 'Decency,' it appears, is determined by which side of the geopolitical divide you occupy.