How can a government like Venezuela counter an imperialism that is articulated as the promotion of “democracy”?
One of the reasons this shift in U.S. policy has been so powerful is because they’ve been able to set up this hegemonic discourse, a very powerful rhetoric of “promoting democracy.” But another reason is the failure of the Left, a worldwide democratic failure. If I were a government being targeted by U.S. political intervention—and I have to be very careful with how I word this because I don’t want to be misconstrued—I would probably wield a heavy hand against that intervention, but I would do so while at the same time exposing U.S. intervention for what it is. For instance, I would point out that U.S. electoral laws don’t allow any foreign interference in U.S. elections. If the Venezuelan government and Venezuelan organizations attempted to do in the United States what the U.S. is doing in Venezuela, anyone accepting money, anyone involved in this program in the United States (US citizens or foreigners) would be arrested and they would be tried and they would be jailed. Funding for el
