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There isn’t a nation in the Western Hemisphere that hasn’t at one time or another found itself caught in the far-reaching tentacles of U.S. imperialism. Venezuela is certainly no exception.
Venezuelan dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez receiving the “Legion of Merit” from ambassador Fletcher Warren in 1954 (Wikimedia Commons)
Washington has been meddling in its internal affairs since the 19th century and it continues to do so to this very day, when the specter of yet another U.S.-backed coup, or even a direct American military intervention, looms larger by the day.
A Long History of Meddling
During most of the 20th century, U.S. interference in Venezuela was mostly about oil, but that wasn’t always the case in earlier times.
Washington’s involvement in the 1895 boundary dispute between Venezuela and Britain was
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