The US government has a long history of supporting corrupt, drug-dealing, right-wing oligarchs in Latin America. The Donald Trump administration is threatening to attack Venezuela, accusing leftist President Nicolás Maduro, without any evidence, of leading a cartel, while Marco Rubio defends Colombia's drug-trafficking former leader Álvaro Uribe. Ben Norton documents Washington's imperial hypocrisy.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwCducQ8HHw
Topics
0:00 Hypocritical US meddling in Latin America
1:41 Colombia's ex President Álvaro Uribe
4:52 (CLIP) CIA director: "We lie, cheat, steal"
5:09 Drug cartels linked to Colombian leader
6:49 Paramilitaries linked to Colombian leader
9:16 False positives scandal
11:36 Plan Colombia
12:37 Left-wing President Gustavo Petro
14:55 US interventions in Latin America
15:39 Honduran dictator Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH)
16:48 US-backed coup in Honduras in 2009
18:27 US support for dictators
19:41 Drug trafficking in Honduras
22:36 US foreign policy in Latin America
22:59 CIA-backed Nicaraguan Contras
24:09 Trump admin attacks Venezuela (again)
25:50 Outro
