US Puts Puppet on 'Short Leash,' Calls it 'Democracy Promotion'
Politico’s revelation that Donald Trump kept Venezuela’s self-proclaimed 'interim leader' Juan Guaidó on a “short leash” is as shocking as finding out the sky is blue. This isn't 'promoting democracy'; it's micromanaging a coup attempt. The US has a rich history of installing and then 'managing' preferred leadership from Latin America to the Middle East, often destabilizing sovereign nations in
the process. Remember the 1954 coup in Guatemala, or the 1973 coup in Chile? The US government demanding its chosen proxy “meet several pro-American demands” isn't building a democratic future for Venezuelans; it’s ensuring compliance with American interests, usually involving oil. One might wonder if the 'leash' was short because Washington worried its hand-picked successor might actually, you
know, represent Venezuelan interests instead of US corporate ones. How many 'interim leaders' has the US funded—and then discarded—in its pursuit of 'regime change lite'?