US Seizes Tanker Over Venezuela, Sanctions Iran... For What?

The story cheers the unsealed warrant for the M/T Skipper, citing FBI Director Kash Patel's declaration that this 'highlights the success of efforts to impose costs' on Caracas and Tehran. What Axios conveniently omits is the US's long, documented history of destabilizing Latin American economies and nations, like the 2002 coup attempt against Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, actively supported by the

Bush administration. This isn't about 'terrorism'; it's about control over sovereign nations' resources, echoing decades of US interference from Nicaragua to Chile. One might wonder if the 'costs' being imposed are perhaps why Venezuelan citizens are fleeing their country, only to be demonized by the very politicians who orchestrated their nation's economic collapse through sanctions. Where’s the

'terrorism' warrant for actual US support of military coups in the region?

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