"The renewed, intensifying threats of regime change, justified through false or inflated claims that Nicolás Maduro, its president, is directing narco-terrorism against the United States, serve as a convenient pretext for deeper and more direct intervention. A recent wave of extrajudicial killings at sea, the directing of the CIA to launch covert ops inside Venezuela, the surge of US troops into the Caribbean, the reopening of a long-shuttered naval base in Puerto Rico,"
"These are little more than the latest expression of an ideological project through which Washington has long sought to shape the hemisphere in ways that would entrench US power further and protect the profits of Western multinationals. That formal project dates back to at least the 1823 Monroe Doctrine, when the United States unilaterally claimed Latin America as its exclusive sphere of influence."
U.S. policy toward Venezuela has intensified, using claims that Nicolás Maduro directs narco-terrorism as justification for deeper intervention. Recent actions include extrajudicial killings at sea, CIA-directed covert operations inside Venezuela, a surge of U.S. troops in the Caribbean, reopening a naval base in Puerto Rico, and deployment of the aircraft carrier USS Gerald Ford. These measures reflect a longstanding ideological project to shape the hemisphere and entrench U.S. power, a project rooted in the 1823 Monroe Doctrine. The project yields profits for Western multinationals while producing violence, political upheaval, social dislocation, and economic devastation for many Venezuelans.
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