Latin America is once again dividing between the aligned and the punished on a regional chessboard where Washington imposes loyalties as a condition for stability.
U.S. policy toward the island no longer seeks to manage a reality, but rather to close an unfinished history by turning economic suffering and migration into moral proofs.
The intervention of the United States in Venezuela reactivated in Latin America and Europe a foreign policy marked by peripheral realism: caution, adaptation to power, and the rhetorical defense of principles without direct confrontation.
Beneath yesterday’s moral rhetoric and Trump’s barefaced cynicism today, the powers once again lay bare an uncomfortable truth: without rules or disguises, the United States presents itself as a global gendarme in the service of its own interests.
When Nicolás Maduro challenged the world with a “Come get me!”, he did not imagine that this shout would mark the beginning of the end of his power and open an uncertain transition for Venezuela.
