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The United States military attack against Venezuela demonstrates an offensive by President Donald Trump to strengthen the transnational far right in Latin America. The evaluation is by professor Clarissa Nascimento Forner, from the Department of International Relations at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (Uerj).
Clarissa explains that bringing together governments that are more far-right has already been part of the Trump administration’s project in the region. “On the other hand, [há] a clear offensive against governments that oppose these far-right ideologies.”
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“This reaffirms this strategic aspect that we observe in Trumpism, which is the articulation of transnational far-right networks. Therefore, strengthening the far-right in the region and weakening possible governments or opposition parties”, explained the professor.
Furthermore, Clarissa Forner points out that the United States reaffirms itself as a factor of regional and global instability:
“Thinking about Venezuelan territory, now the tendency is for us to observe this scenario of internal instability necessarily and which will hardly be resolved with a period of intervention or military administration by the North American side, as stated by Trump in the press conference”, he said, referring to , this Saturday (3).
She attributes to the Trump administration the way of working of producing instability as a way of enabling responses that often escape the dimension of legality:
“Then [há] the use of force itself and this process of kidnapping President Maduro and his wife as an example of this type of action that escapes any type of rule of legality and is legitimized by this idea that there is an ongoing crisis, that there is a fight against crime.”
The instability also signals, according to Clarissa Forner, the potential for future interventions by the United States.
“It is very clear, in the speech at the press conference, that Venezuela is not the last case, the last of possible attacks, that there is a prospect that other cases could happen in the region”, he mentioned.
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The United States attack against Venezuela marks a new episode of direct interventions by Washington in Latin America. The last time the US invaded a Latin American country was in 1989, in Panama, when the US military kidnapped then-president Manuel Noriega, accusing him of drug trafficking.
Just as they did with Noriega, the United States accuses Maduro of leading an alleged Venezuelan De Los Soles cartel, without presenting evidence. Experts in international drug trafficking question the existence of this cartel.
Donald Trump’s government was offering a $50 million reward for information leading to Maduro’s arrest.
For critics, the action is a geopolitical measure to distance Venezuela from global adversaries of the United States, such as China and Russia, in addition to exerting greater control over the country’s oil, which owns the largest proven oil reserves on the planet.
