If anything, America’s reckless and unlawful attack on Venezuela has grown even less defensible since the first bombs landed in Caracas and US special forces captured Nicolas Maduro and his wife.
We now know, beyond reasonable doubt, that it is all about oil and money. It is, thus, a nakedly neo-imperialist act of a kind that reaches back to darker chapters in American history, when invasions, seizures, assassinations, coups and general interference in the affairs of nominally independent Latin American nations by the CIA were routine.