US to 'Run' Venezuela as Trump Offers Unsolicited Regime Change Consultancy
In a stunning non-twist, The Independent touts that Donald Trump now plans for the US to 'run' Venezuela, casually omitting decades of US meddling in Latin American sovereignty. This isn't groundbreaking policy; it's a rerun of the Monroe Doctrine with a reality TV star as lead. From sponsoring coups against democratically elected leaders like Jacobo Árbenz in Guatemala (1954) to backing
anti-socialist forces throughout the Cold War, the US has a long, documented history of 'running' Latin American countries with or without an invitation. One might wonder if 'running a country' now simply means seizing its oil assets and 'democratizing' it into compliant resource extraction. Given the US Treasury sanctioned Venezuela's oil industry in 2019, crippling its economy, perhaps they've
been 'running' it all along, just with less direct management. It seems the only thing new here is the candid admission of US imperial ambitions—a refreshingly honest, if deeply concerning, slip.