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| Your Complete Guide to the N.Y. Times' Support of U.S.-Backed Coups in Latin America |
| 2019-01-30 |
| Adam Johnson goes through the history of the New York Times' coverage of US-backed coups in Latin America, finding that it has supported at least 10 of the last 12 coups in the region. [TruthDig] There’s a familiar script: The CIA and its U.S. corporate partners come in, wage economic warfare, fund and arm the opposition, then the target of this operation is blamed. This, of course, isn’t to say there isn’t merit to some of the objections being raised by The New York Times‐whether it be Chile in 1973 or Venezuela in 2019. But that’s not really the point. The reason the CIA and U.S. military and its corporate partisans historically target governments in Latin America is because those governments are hostile to U.S. capital and strategic interests, not because they are undemocratic. So while the points the Times makes about illiberalism may sometimes be true, they’re mostly a non sequitur when analyzing the reality of what’s unfolding. |
| Posted by: Herb McCoy |