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Slight correction to the current conversation about past US interventions in Latin America. Those didn't "accidentally," often "lead to" bad things. In many cases, we now know the bad things (extermination of dissidents, right-wing dictatorship) were the plan from the beginning.
I truly don't know how relevant that is to current events in Venezuela (Truly! though I do think it's relevant to Venezuelan perceptions) but if we're going to be intellectually serious about Latin American history we have to drop the presumption the US always had good intentions
Also worth nothing - it's happened MANY times that intelligent people believed (incorrectly) that the Bad Days of coups and violent dictatorships were over. Jango thought he would get to run again. Allende thought Cold War détente gave him space to build democratic socialism, etc
This process didn't end in like the 80s, either. Zelaya was ousted 2009, and look what has happened to Honduras since.
