LETTER: Venezuela is the latest in a litany of US foreign affairs meddling
Countries that Washington targets are independent, rich in resources or strategically important
For a country that supposedly had its elections highjacked by Russia’s Vladimir Putin, the US is not doing too badly for itself. Interfering in the affairs of other countries is as American as apple pie, the latest regime-change project being Venezuela. The official reason given is that they are treating their citizens badly. After all, why can’t they follow the fine example of Uncle Sam’s best friend, Saudi Arabia? The real reason is all about countries that are independent, rich in resources, or strategically important. In more recent times we’ve had the destruction of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria. They all had independent foreign policies that did not follow the western dictate. As a consequence, they all suffered the same fate. The regime-change template goes something like this: The imposition of draconian economic sanctions to cripple the economy and weaken the targeted “regime” (standard term); Backing armed militias and terrorists (u...
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