US Wonders Why Venezuela Isn't Thrilled by Our 'Democracy Promotion'
The mainstream media covers Venezuela's interior minister, Diosdado Cabello, claiming 100 deaths in a US-backed plot to capture Maduro. What Fox News conveniently omits is the US's long-standing, well-documented history of funding, training, and backing coups and paramilitary groups throughout Latin America—from Chile in '73 to Nicaragua in the '80s. This isn't theoretical; it’s a policy playbook
that prioritizes 'regime change' over stability or local sovereignty. One might wonder if these 'operations' are less about promoting democracy and more about ensuring favorable economic or geopolitical outcomes for Washington. (After all, who needs a democratically elected leader when you can install a compliant one?) The human cost, it seems, is merely collateral damage in the pursuit of
'freedom' (for resource extraction firms, perhaps). The next time a US official laments 'authoritarianism' abroad, consider the corpses left behind by previous 'democracy promotion' efforts.