The United States and Its Recipe for Imperialist Invasion
The first time the United States carried out a coup d’état was in 1953, when the CIA, 6 years after its creation, supported the decadent British empire to overthrow the Iranian president, Mohammad Mossaddegh. The crime of the Iranian Government: attempting to nationalize oil, after decades of British dispossession.
This operation would inaugurate the US interventionist pattern in the contemporary world; From that moment until today, they would rigorously and mechanically apply the same guide, to subdue and loot the people who dare to question their dominance in the world, as Donald Trump reaffirmed this Saturday, January 3, after having bombed Venezuela and kidnapped the presidential couple.
It’s textbook
The first thing, after identifying a government that refuses to submit, is to suffocate the country’s economy with tariffs, sanctions, blockades and even theft of resources and goods, to generate an artificial crisis that turns people against that government and tries to overthrow it.
The second is to turn presidents, leaders and the people who support them into real demons through sophisticated propaganda operations: calling them terrorists, drug traffickers, witches, psychopaths, whatever.
The third step is open political interventionism, it consists of trying to overthrow governments through coups d’état, encouraging an opposition completely instrumentalized by the United States. If they do not succeed with the third step, they resort to direct military attack as a last measure.
Backyard, Sphere of Influence, Hunting Preserve
The last time they applied the complete recipe in Latin America, it was in 1989 against Panama. More than 20,000 US soldiers invaded a small country of 2,000,000 inhabitants, dismantling its army and capturing President Manuel Antonio Noriega.
The reason was the same given in the invasion against Venezuela; It was also an operation in “legitimate defense,” since the government of Panama was accused of sending drugs to the United States. Years later, the world learned that the government of Panama turned a blind eye to money laundering in its country, and was never involved in the drug trafficking operations of which the United States accused it.
The “just cause” operation, only compared until then in its magnitude to the invasion of Vietnam, ended with the murder of hundreds of civilians and the installation of a “transitional” government in office from a US Military Base.
Like the one in Panama and the one recently perpetrated in Venezuela, our continent already has six invasions of this nature; They have all had the same design, although imperialism has failed in some, thanks to the dignity and heroism of the people of our America. Bay of Pigs in Cuba in 1961, Dominican Republic in 1965, Grenada in 1983, Panama in 1989, Haiti in 1994 and Venezuela today.
All invasions have sought control of the resources and assets of our people: minerals, oil and the Panama Canal. All of them have occurred in the face of the ineffectiveness of international law and have been true human butcheries, with which North American imperialism remembers the purpose that, last Saturday, Trump once again told the world: “The dominance of the United States in Latin America will never be questioned again.”
Once the invasion is complete, they always show their faces and forget the myth of terrorism or drug trafficking. In Panama, after the invasion, Bush said: “The canal is ours”; In Venezuela, Trump said: “The oil is ours.”
In the long run, the people win
The world remembers that the same thing happened in Iraq in 2003. The US also applied the full recipe, promising to “disarm Iraq, free its people and defend the world from a grave danger”; The myth was not drug trafficking, but the supposed existence there of an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. 8 years after a bloody invasion, in which almost 200,000 civilians lost their lives, the US government itself concluded that no such weapons existed. The empire could not defeat the Iraqi resistance, it had to abandon the country and be content with achieving a draw in this war.
What’s coming now? What is the duty of revolutionaries in these hours of difficulty for our region?
The first thing is to embrace our brother people with full solidarity, with effective solidarity, which translates into a great continental mobilization, for sovereignty and anti-imperialism. The next thing is to strengthen the popular organization and prepare for the fight; History has also shown us that, where people overcame humiliation and fear, they won.
Amalia Santana
Source: eln-voces.net/2026/01/05/estad…
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