Michael Vatikiotis
Lost in the shock and awe of President Trump’s audacious snatching of Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro in the early hours of January 3 is the fact that America has a long history of orchestrating the departure of government leaders. Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam in 1963, Salvador Allende of Chile in 1973, and then Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines in 1986, to name but three. One might also throw in Indonesia’s President Sukarno after a CIA-supported coup in 1965.
More recently, in concert with the EU, the US poured money and intelligence resources into popular protests that brought down the government of President Victor Yanukovych in February 2014.
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