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Yet 70% of American refineries are optimized for (Venezuelas) sour crude being able to have a higher profit margin as it's not attractive for other refineries and are able to buy at lower prices or even steal as we saw
And other fairy tales one tells gullible children going to bed, when we know that the MIC and security appratus got a fuckton of money at their disposal since then
You left out the "focused on fucking around in the middle east"
After all, with no Soviet Union to be the handy antagonists it was easier to let the cartels take over the fucking around part of South America, because the priorities of Washington shifted to fucking up the Middle East.
Now it's back to fucking around in South America, and the CIA is just as inept as they've always been.
Like a toddler with a machine gun. Someone is getting hurt, but it's anyone's guess as to who.
That's how it's been since the beginning, when the CIA's main priority was seeing how many people they could secretly dose with LSD.
A shift of focus doesn't mean they're absent. Your "mostly pulled back" underplays it hard considering the resources at washington's disposal. CIA had a few coup attempts in Venezuela https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_coups_d'%C3%A9tat
I'm not sure if you noticed, but the attempted coups in 1992 were attempted by Hugo Chavez backed by Castro, not the CIA. And then the 2002 coup attempt was against Chavez, and again, not triggered by the CIA, but instead by Chavez being super unpopular and firing some actually popular parts of the government which cause a coalition of trade unions and the local Catholic Church to try to drive him from power.
The CIA isn't magic, they are rarely even competent, but Hollywood and Tankies alike sure do love to pretend they're both.
Yet you fail to understand a shift of focus doesn't mean it's absence.
Based
Yet they got money from the NED also known as the overt arm of the CIA.
The CIA having more resources available than entire nation states, being involved in major historical events, but libs sure like to pretend like they're irrelevant
They aren't irrelevant, but they aren't magic either. They're rarely even competent.
They're a bunch of dangerous fuckwits.
As to you saying "based" for Hugo fucking Chavez, you can fuck right off. The man was A monster and a coup attempt against a democratically elected government is never based. He should have been executed rather than just spending years.in prison.
History has shown repeatedly that if you let that sort of monster live after they attempt a coup, they will try again, And if they then succeed in gaining power, the death squads come out.
As to NED, they don't work with the CIA. They've been super careful about that. They do overtly what the CIA used to do covertly. This requires a level of credibility that working with the CIA would rob them of. they still spread right wing propaganda, but are even less competent about it than the CIA was when it had that role.
But no, they weren't involved in the 2002 coup attempt either, and Chavez had everyone involved murdered, because that's what dictators do, especially ones who pretend to be communist.
Really it's the Moonies you have to pay attention to. those fuckers have the unlimited purse strings you think the CIA has, and are willing to fund literaly Nazi death squads all over South America. They were a founding part of the School of the Americas, along with the John Birch Society.
The Moonies also played a major role in Iran Contra, the scandal that got the CIA "outreach" arm removed and transfered to NED, which came with at least some accountability as to where and how the money was spent.
How did this right wing bullshit end up here?