"Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo / Getty Images Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation In recent months, the Trump administration has escalated a decades-long campaign against the Venezuelan government and people. 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 U.S. troops into the Caribbean, the reopening of a long-shuttered naval base in Puerto Rico, and the deployment of the aircraft carrier the U.S.S. Gerald Ford in the region represent striking but not surprising developments. These are little more than the latest expression of an ideological project"
The U.S. has intensified a decades-long campaign against Venezuela and expanded military and covert operations across the Caribbean. Administration claims allege Nicolás Maduro directs narco-terrorism, providing pretext for strikes on suspected drug-trafficking boats, extrajudicial killings at sea, CIA covert operations inside Venezuela, troop surges in the Caribbean, reopening of a naval base in Puerto Rico, and deployment of an aircraft carrier. These actions aim to reinforce U.S. regional influence and protect Western multinational profits. The doctrine producing these outcomes yields concentrated profits for elites and widespread violence, political upheaval, social dislocation, and economic devastation across affected countries.
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