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Dear Editor,
Let’s be clear: this is a coup.
The United States does not give a damn about illegal narcotics being trafficked from Venezuela. If it did, its priorities would look very different.
The U.S. is currently in the middle of a devastating opioid public health crisis—one fueled by Big Pharma, illegal supply routes through Mexico, and precursor chemicals originating in China.
Yet the U.S. shows no urgency in bombing Mexico or China. Why? Because neither country has vast oil reserves waiting to be seized.
I am tired of the United States playing in our faces—bullying the rest of the world like an overgrown child on a playground, snatching toys from smaller children simply because it can.
The U.S. has breached international law by killing people on boats it claims were involved in the illicit drug trade, without arrest, without trial, without due process.
Even Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán—one of the most notorious drug lords in modern history and former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel—was not treated this way.
He was captured, tried, convicted, and is currently serving a life sentence in a U.S. prison in Colorado.
Yet we are supposed to believe that alleged drug trafficking from Venezuela is so urgent, so exceptional, that it justifies kidnapping the leader of a sovereign nation?
At what point do we call this what it is: a blatant disregard for national sovereignty and a gross violation of human rights?
And where are our regional leaders?
CARICOM is useless. There has been no decisive action, no condemnation, no consequences. Trinidad and Tobago has not been expelled. Trinidadians have not been declared persona non grata. There have been no trade sanctions, no boycotts—even though Kamla Persad-Bissessar previously aligned herself with U.S. interests and is now attempting to backtrack. Trinidad and Tobago products should not be on the shelves of any CARICOM country.
But let’s be honest: CARICOM has no teeth.
We’ve seen this before.
CARIFORUM continued to deepen trade ties with the Dominican Republic even after the DR rendered people of Haitian descent stateless—one of the most egregious human rights violations in the region.
Our institutions speak loudly when it is convenient and fall silent when it matters most.
When Hurricane Irma devastated Barbuda, it was Nicolás Maduro who sent a military aircraft with humanitarian aid.
Petrocaribe—an initiative that has directly benefited the Caribbean—was the brainchild of Hugo Chávez and continued under Maduro. Yet when Venezuela is under attack, our voices are not as pronounced.
The United States has long sought to install a shill in Venezuela to gain access to its natural resources. Remember Juan Guaidó?
The man the U.S. recognized as “president” despite never being democratically elected? That experiment failed.
Now, the U.S. has grown impatient and manufactured yet another excuse to get what it wants.
This is not new.
The U.S. has a long history of lies, destabilization, and regime change disguised as moral crusades.
We watched former Secretary of State Colin Powell stand before the world and lie about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. UN inspectors found none.
Still, the invasion went forward.
Over 185,000 Iraqi civilians were killed.
To put that into perspective: that is nearly twice the population of Antigua wiped out.
No weapons of mass destruction were ever found. Years later, Powell would call the war a “regret”—after Iraq was destroyed, destabilized, and left fertile ground for the rise of ISIS.
We have been lied to before.
It is nothing short of shameful that the world is once again silently watching the United States dismantle a country under false pretenses. What is happening in Venezuela is not about drugs. It is not about democracy.
It is about power, resources, and control.
This is a coup—no different from the ones the U.S. has orchestrated time and time again.
Jessica M.
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Yawns…..Maduro was a dictator because he stole the elections (check)….He made Venezuela’s economy flop and started a migration issue for many nearby countries (check)…He was indeed working with drug cartels in the region (check)….He was also in partnership with the Russians and the Chinese which is a bad thing when you have lots of oil (check)…… Recipe to get GONE……TRUST ME WHEN I SAY THIS NO ONE WOULD BE HAPPY WITH RUSSIA OR CHINA AS A WORLD SUPERPOWER….WE WOULD BE DOOMED…..BE HAPPY AMERICA KEEPS THEM AT BAY OUR FREEDOM AND DEMOCRATIC WAY OF LIFE WOULD BE OVER FOREVER….Good Job Orange Man!!
Wen ever our cabbiean leaders try say something they get visa restrictions an we the carribean people are d same ones bashing dem an saying they cuz visa restrictions on us so wat can they do this visa stuff on dominica an antigua was never about CIP its all about the leaders asking America to leave Venezuela alone so the US respond by squeezing dem wit this visa stuff cuzing the others to stay quiet
@ The World is a Messed Up Place
Everyone who America doesn’t like is a dictator when they have a long list of regime change strategies they’ve enacted to DICTATE how sovereign countries operate.
The US has fucked you so far up the ass that you have determined they are an authority to keep the world in check. Who exactly gave them this power?
We have no democracy when at will, the US can and has toppled governments to further their interest but it is clear the last book you’ve read is probably from kindergarten so I can’t expect better reasoning.
@jessicaM – What do you think communist china is doing to your country right now? Through the debt accrued of “belt and road” they’ll own you.
Before I read this the first thing came to my mind is that trump only want to go in to take over the people oil but trump one day your time will come and hope you can take the pressure. You’re a Coward Trump. You only can take people when they sleeping why not face the man like a man you bitch ass
Blah blah blah…I hope the writer isn’t watching fake news CNN. All the world needs to see are the millions of Venezuelans free for the first time in their life. Maduro was a tyrant who stole the elections and caused serious repression in his country! Thank God the alUS liberated them. We can stay here and posturize but it is only who knows it feels it. My family was one that had to flee because of the repression. Il
@ Blah Blah Blah
If Maduro “stole the elections” does that make it right for Trump to fabricate a lie and steal their oil?
Smh. This is not about and has never been packaged as Venezuelan liberation so you talking about seeing Venezuelans free when this was marketed as an anti- narcotics operation which it isn’t is asinine.
When the US invaded Iraq and got rid of Saddam Hussein were Iraqis liberated or were they killed and their country destroyed?
You are clearly unlearned.
@ The World is A Messed up Place
I personally think your brain matter is all mess