What Trump and the United States are doing in Venezuela to destabilize and overthrow President Nicolás Maduro is not new. It's part of a centuries-old, white supremacist playbook, which includes a long, bipartisan pattern of destabilization targeting independent nations around the world. Yes, you read it right! The Democrats and Republicans alike have vividly supported coups, assassinations, regime change, sanctions, and political imprisonment. The driving force behind these actions is not democracy. It is white supremacy operating through empire in the pretext of democracy, and we easily fall for it.
This operational pattern spans the globe with careful documentation. The records are there, and this is not just a conspiracy but a deliberately crafted policy to subjugate independent nations to remotely control them to their greedy self-interest. The list of target prey includes Black and Caribbean, in which African leaders are continually removed or neutralized with U.S. involvement to inure to the benefit of no other.
The list of the removal, capture, or killings of African presidents starts with Patrice Lumumba (DR Congo), who was assassinated after CIA-backed destabilization. Our own Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana) was overthrown in a CIA-supported military coup, and out of frustration, that made him easily susceptible to ailments, leading to his death outside his country of birth. Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso was assassinated in a coup backed by foreign interests aligned with the U.S. and France through his own boyhood friend Blaise Compaoré.
The list continues with Amílcar Cabral of Guinea-Bissau, who was assassinated amidst intelligence interference during the liberation struggle at the time. Samora Machel of Mozambique died in a suspicious plane crash during Cold War destabilization and was not fingered in it except by the USA. As if that was not enough, Muammar Gaddafi of Libya was overthrown and killed following U.S.-led NATO intervention, and this is recent for our recollections. In fact, Nelson Mandela of South Africa was imprisoned with the assistance of U.S. intelligence providing information to apartheid authorities. What indeed is the interest of the USA?
This is the share of the Caribbean nations. Maurice Bishop of Grenada was executed during a coup immediately preceding the U.S. invasion, while Michael Manley of Jamaica was politically neutralized through U.S.-backed economic warfare and covert operations. Fidel Castro of Cuba was not left off the hook. He was targeted by numerous CIA assassination and overthrow attempts, and this equally is recent. Jean Bertrand Aristide of Haiti was democratically elected and removed twice with U.S. involvement, yet no one coughs out of fear and inferiority.
The Black Americans were equally not spared, and they started with Malcolm X's assassination under intense FBI and CIA surveillance. The same was found with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination while targeted by COINTELPRO. Fred Hampton was killed in an FBI-coordinated police raid, while Huey P. Newton was systematically neutralized through COINTELPRO. All these can be fact-checked by the power of the internet. The bottom of the list is Assata Shakur, targeted through imprisonment, exile, and permanent state repression. Why?
Today, those same white supremacist forces are actively working to undermine the sovereignty of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, and we are never out of the woods as a nation of our own. These nations are being targeted through sanctions, diplomatic isolation, proxy pressure, and media warfare for rejecting Western domination and asserting control over their resources and futures.
White supremacy is not confined to one political party, and it is not confined to one race. It is a global system of power ravage. Many Black and Brown elites have defended or benefited from this violence for money, access, and prestige, but what value is there without a world of peace, tranquility, and harmony? That truth must be confronted squarely without offsets.
The understanding is clear in our current circumstance wherein these same white supremacist forces are destabilizing Venezuela with the ripple effect directly on Africa. It is nothing but their oil reserve. The same forces destabilizing Africa are the same forces destabilizing Black communities inside the United States. What is this inhumane attitude for? They simply don't care about you, as stated by Michael Jackson in one of his famous tracks to awaken Black Consciousness.
The plethora of subjugation cast across economic sabotage, political repression, surveillance, propaganda, and militarization—and for what reason? Only known to them. We have to convince ourselves that this is one system, one struggle, and it is all connected as a unit.
The tactics are the same and have never changed. Why is it that the global majority (85% Black and Brown people) struggles to counter a global minority of less than 15% who wreak disproportionate chaos and destruction throughout the entire world? Will 2026 be any different? Wake up from your slumbers and fear not for atomic energy. No one will fight for you except only you and yourselves.
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