US Raids in Venezuela: Caribbean's Inconvenience, DC's Quiet Tuesday
Bloomberg alerts us to flight cancellations across the Caribbean, blaming unspecified 'US military operations in Venezuela' for travelers' woes ( Bloomberg ). The unspoken context here is a century of US interventionism in Latin America, from banana republics to 'regime change' operations in Chile and Nicaragua. This isn't a new travel advisory; it's the latest installment in a long-running
regional destabilization program, now just mildly inconveniencing North American holiday-makers. One might wonder if the State Department sends out 'disruption notices' to the targeted nations before their sovereignty is 'upended.' The sheer audacity of framing military aggression as a public service announcement for delayed flights is peak corporate media. For Washington, a 'raid' isn't an act of
war, but merely a blip on an airline schedule.