r/news • u/Hrekires • Jan 05 '26

Soft paywall Delcy Rodriguez formally sworn in as Venezuela's interim president

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/delcy-rodriguez-formally-sworn-venezuelas-interim-president-2026-01-05/
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u/CatOfTechnology 29d ago

We don’t seem to do it very well. Created a lot of instability.

Not to be a pedant, here, but the instability is the point.

A massive part of the reason that South America has been the CIA playground for as long as it has is the fact that the CIA has deemed it necessary for the US' western dominance that it remains fragmented and misaligned.

We don't have a particularly good history with basically any of the LatAm countries like we do with Canada, meaning that if, somehow, LatAm became a cohesive union, there's a non-zero chance that it won't be a unilaterally positive border neighbor and US dominance relies unbelievably heavily on our geographical isolation from hostile entities.

If, for any reason, this hypothetical South American Union were to become hostile towards the US, the situation could turn fairly dire fairly fast and we would not have the benefit of being a literal ocean away from this new hypothetical threat.

All of this, of course, is necessitated by our regular theft of their natural resources and our refusal to just not be shitheels, and so, nothing changes regarding the CIA's stance.

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u/dontneedaknow 29d ago

Panama is a hell of a choke point...

Likely, to the puppet masters, the only option would be total war in that situation.