Venezuela

Venezuela

America’s Next Manufactured War?

“People from #USA, I ask for your support in order to reject the interference of Donald Trump’s administration which intends to turn my Homeland into a ‘Vietnam war’ in Latin America. Don’t allow it!”

“If the U.S. intends to invade us, they will have a Vietnam worse than they can imagine.” — Nicolas Maduro

The United States is once again trying to impose its will on Latin America. This time around, they’ve decided to ramp up aggression against Venezuela. Warships are posturing off the coast, generals are mumbling about “possible boots on the ground,” and the corporate media is dusting off the same tired script they used for Iraq, Libya, and every other oil-rich country Uncle Sam decided needed “freedom.”

This time it’s about oil, and about choking out socialism anywhere it dares to exist south of our border.

The official excuse? Drugs.

According to the propaganda mouthpiece of D.C., Venezuela has become a major hub for cocaine trafficking, and that’s why the U.S. might need to “intervene.” Even by the DEA’s own data, Colombia is the world’s kingpin of cocaine, dwarfing Venezuela’s output by orders of magnitude.

But Colombia happens to be a U.S. ally, so we look the other way, it’s not like we care about actually stopping drugs anyways. It’s not about stopping cocaine, it’s about painting Nicolás Maduro as the next villain of the week so Washington can crank up the war drums and manufacture consent for an invasion.