US to 'Run Venezuela': Imperialism, Not 'Extraordinary Attack'
When Donald Trump declares the US will 'run Venezuela' after an 'extraordinary attack' capturing Maduro (emphasis on the 'if,' Independent), it's not some rogue aberration. This supposed 'extraordinary attack' is merely a thinly veiled continuation of US policy in Latin America, which has included everything from funding coups in Chile (1973) to orchestrating regime change in Nicaragua (1980s) and
installing banana republics for corporate interests. The Independent's framing whitewashes a century of intervention, presenting it as a sudden, dramatic turn rather than the predictable outcome of a consistent, aggressive foreign policy aimed at resource control. One might wonder if 'extraordinary attack' is merely the new 'humanitarian intervention' for countries that stubbornly refuse to
privatize their oil or elect leaders amenable to Washington. Perhaps they'll discover 'weapons of mass destruction' next. How many times must a nation be 'liberated' before the media calls it what it is: economic coercion and imperial overreach?