Jan.- Sick with a stubborn narcissism, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, has just concluded another chapter of his latest reality show: the aggression against Venezuela.
The first part of the series, which began last August with an excessive military deployment off the Venezuelan coast under the pretext of fighting drug cartels supposedly flooding U.S. streets with drugs from that country, ended yesterday with the bombing of several Venezuelan regions and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro.
According to the pacifist Trump’s statement later from an improvised operations room at his Florida residence, he was able to watch the action live and in real time "as if it were a Hollywood movie."
Later, at a press conference and after praising the heroism of the U.S. special forces involved in the kidnapping, the president was proclaimed by his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, as the great protagonist of the feat.
According to Rubio, whom Trump himself has called his brain on Latin American affairs, "Daddy Donald" is not an ordinary president but one who keeps his word when he says something.
Something similar, by the way, was recently said by his chief of staff, Mrs. Susie Wiles, who stated in an interview that although the president does not drink, he has “the personality of an alcoholic” because "he acts with the conviction that there's nothing he can't do. Nothing, zero, nothing."
In other words, what in plain Spanish means that the so-called practitioner of the “madman theory” can do whatever he pleases.
Something which, by the way, is not at all far-fetched if one considers the merits accumulated by the current occupant of the White House during his first term and thus far into this second one.
Since Donald Trump is a character who “plays the madman” and has "the personality of an alcoholic" who does as he sees fit, he will go down in history as the man who, by sending his forces against the Capitol, forever sullied the legend of so-called American democracy. He has done much the same with the justice system, from which he has emerged unscathed from countless accusations.
In his supposed delirium tremens, he unleashed a racist hunt against Latin immigration, comparable only to that carried out by Nazism against the Jews.
Not without reason has the American people, who can be deceived once but not every time, taken to the streets of the main cities in that country on several occasions to reject the new king of the White House who now, apparently, after what has just happened in Venezuela, intends to proclaim himself emperor of the world.
But the pacifist gladiator is neither as crazy nor as drunk as he often appears. In reality, the clown Trump represents an oligarchy that refuses to accept that today’s world is not the 19th-century world of the Monroe Doctrine and the manifest destiny of America First.
In today’s world, multilateralism defended by countries like those in the BRICS and the rapid economic development of China have relegated the North American empire to a secondary role.
In an era in which climate change threatens the existence of all humanity, the oligarchy that this supposed crazy North American represents refuses to give up oil exploitation, something that would mean a total renewal of its economy. For these reasons, the United States continues to support Israel’s genocide against Gaza, Israel being its gendarme in the Middle East, and does not hesitate to brazenly claim that Venezuela’s oil belongs to it.
The $50 million reward for Maduro’s capture is a mere trifle compared to the commission that the oil companies must have offered the president and his hawks to maintain the status quo of global pollution.
In the case of the show of force against Venezuela, there are also other personal reasons that undoubtedly determine the madman’s behavior. We must not forget that Trump promised that if elected, he would end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours—something the drunkard who believes he can do everything has not achieved.
On the other hand, there is the case of the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, in which his own Maga base believes the president is implicated.
In a year of midterm elections, thanks to the president’s tariff delusions, the economy is in crisis, and the American people, who believed America would be great again, are today suffering the effects of galloping inflation.
The aggression against Venezuela is, besides the insatiable thirst for oil, a smokescreen—do you remember that Hollywood movie with the same title?—that serves to conceal all these problems.
To keep hiding them, now comes another long chapter of the series: the circus trial for drug trafficking—not for anti-imperialism—of President Maduro and his wife.
"Whether there is a new season of looting, killing, and arrogance depends on the unity of the Venezuelan people and the solidarity protests of all dignified and free people in the world who refuse to accept the fascist yoke of the new Nero of the White House."
(Taken from CubaSí)
