bombed Caracas, captured Nicolás Maduro and announced that they will govern Venezuela until a new government is formed. In other words, they will get their hands on the country’s oil.
Over the past 50 years, the United States has controlled the government of South Vietnam, invaded Iraq, hanged Saddam Hussein, and appointed an American viceroy. Everything went wrong. The same happened in Afghanistan.
However, not everything was defeats. The invasion of Panama in 1989, with the arrest of President Manuel Noriega. He spent time in American, French and Panamanian prisons until his death in 2013.
The American intervention in Venezuela is more similar to the disaster in Iraq than the success in Panama.
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