"CIA activity against Venezuelan leaders revives specter of US interventionism in Latin America
The agency’s covert operations, which Trump confirmed last week, hark back to the coups, assassination attempts and insurgencies supported or carried out by Washington in the region during the 20th century
The long and often sinister history of U.S. intervention in Latin America appears to be about to enter a new chapter. After a 20th century full of active interference, sometimes overt, such as the 1989 invasion of Panama — and other times, supposedly covert, such as the sponsorship of the 1973 coup in Chile against Salvador Allende — the Trump administration has authorized covert CIA operations in Venezuela.
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The closest thing to direct U.S. intervention in that country is inferred from the confession of John Bolton, former National Security Advisor in Trump’s first term and indicted this Thursday for his handling of classified information. In 2022, Bolton acknowledged that he helped organize coup attempts in other countries, but without success due to the “incompetence” of the administration he served."
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-10-20/cia-activity-against-venezuelan-leaders-revives-specter-of-us-interventionism-in-latin-america.html
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