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Ah.

It's been apparent from the start that we weren't getting the full story about what's really going on with Venezuela, but I had a few theories about it.

The CIA's involvement makes it likely that the correct one is that this war against drug traffickers is actually a turf war - that the US is not attacking Venezuelans in an attempt to stop the flow of narcotics (which is a fool's errand anyway) but in order to seize control.

Just as the CIA did in the past with heroin in southeast Asia and cocaine in central America...

The CIA's been at war with Venezuela since they fucked up the coup in 2002. A bit like how we've effectively been at war with Cuba and Nicaragua nearly-continuously since their independence movements booted out the bulk of the US-friendly corporate shills and mafia allies.

Bolivia's been under similar pressure, with coup attempts occurring every five to ten years. Then you've got US interventions in Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Columbia, Panama, Honduras, El Salvador, Guam...

Hard to name a country south of the border that hasn't been subjected to the sharp end of US foreign policy. If Venezuela is notable, it is primarily because of how poorly these interventions have been received. If you can't shoe-horn in a semi-popular candidate via domestic insurgency and rigged local elections, only thing left to do is flatten the place with bombs, I guess.

has any articles used the word "war" ?