U.S. confidence in its operation to remove Maduro appears so high that plans are already in motion for privatizing Venezuela’s oil industry. The strategy mirrors the 1989 Panama intervention against Manuel Noriega, who was labeled a drug lord and saw Panamanian elites support U.S. action. Today, the United States has designated the fictional Venezuelan “Sun Cartel” as a foreign terrorist organization and accused Maduro of leading it, citing “terrorist violence” in the Western Hemisphere, effectively putting intervention on the agenda, potentially including a landing operation supported by naval fire.
LYUBA LULKO
USA's Psychological Operations Against Venezuela: Intervention Plans Mirror Panama 1989