US 'Running' Venezuela: A Democracy Promotion or Resource Seizure?
NPR details former President Trump's 'plans' to 'run' Venezuela after a US-orchestrated mission to remove President Maduro. This follows a time-honored US tradition: declaring a nation 'failed' (or communist, or oil-rich), destabilizing it, then installing a 'friendly' government. Remember when the CIA overthrew Guatemala's democratically elected Arbenz in 1954 for wanting to nationalize United
Fruit Company lands? Or Chile's Allende in 1973 for, well, being socialist? The media frames this as a 'controversial mission,' which is a clinical way of saying 'attempted regime change for resource control.' How many times does 'democracy promotion' look exactly like resource extraction, before we start calling it what it is?