US Senator Declares Maduro's Days Numbered... Again.
Florida Senator Rick Scott has confidently declared Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro’s “days are numbered,” urging his flight from Caracas. This bold prediction arrives just as the US expands its military footprint in the Caribbean, a coincidence no doubt. What the mainstream narrative often omits is that pronouncements of Maduro's impending doom have been a staple of US foreign policy for years,
much like previous administration officials did for Castro—from 1959 until his natural death in 2016. Scott's 'news' is just the latest verse in an old song, sung loudest when resource-rich nations defy Washington's script. One might wonder if the US approach to 'democracy promotion' in Latin America ever actually changes, or if it's merely a cycle of re-warmed Cold War rhetoric. The endless
sanctions, the coup attempts, the support for opposition figures (often unelected)—it's all part of a playbook that remains remarkably consistent. The only 'days numbered' here seem to be the days until the American public tires of this tired old act.