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Cake day: June 13th, 2024

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  • Let’s just looks at Venezuela.

    If we’re using Wikipedia as a source you might be interested in these parts

    Madsen alleging U.S. Navy involvement.[21] U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd, D-CT, requested an investigation of concerns that Washington appeared to condone the removal of Chávez,[22][23] which found that “U.S. officials acted appropriately and did nothing to encourage an April coup against Venezuela’s president” nor did they provide any naval logistical support.[24][25] CIA documents indicate that the Bush administration knew about a plot weeks before the April 2002 military coup. They cite a document dated 6 April 2002, which says: "dissident military factions…are stepping up efforts to organize a coup against President Chávez, possibly as early as this month.

    According to Michal Hertik, there is no benevolent relationship between the Chávez government and United States as a great power. Chávez is not interested in US foreign policy (actually President Bush’s beliefs) including “creating a unipolar or bipolar world, effort to create a powerful empire”. So he tried to break US imperialism and its interference in the affairs of foreign nation-states. Although he never tried to make South American countries agree with him.[17]

    Chávez initially accepted assistance from anyone who offered, with the United States sending helicopters and dozens of soldiers that arrived two days after the disaster. When defense minister Raúl Salazar complied with the offer of the United States’ further aid that included 450 Marines and naval engineers aboard the USS Tortuga which was setting sail to Venezuela, Chávez told Salazar to decline the offer since “[i]t was a matter of sovereignty”. Salazar became angry and assumed that Chávez’s opinion was influenced by talks with Fidel Castro, though he complied with Chávez’s order. Though additional aid was necessary, Chávez thought a more revolutionary image was more important and the USS Tortuga returned to its port.[19]

    They always hated us for no reason of our own. And wanted to take our spot as a super power. They failed.