Obama is not in Kansas anymore, but he does not seem
to know it. Latin America no longer slavishly accepts orders from the
USA; it is no longer the USA’s “back yard”.
The mainstream media has downplayed the fact that President Obama has
just declared yet another country an enemy of the USA –one in the
American Hemisphere. He has issued an Executive Order declaring
Venezuela an “extraordinary and unusual threat to the national security of the United States” [i]
How a nation that spends less than 1% of its GDP on military
expenditures, has no latest state-of-the-art military weaponry, and an
army of merely 120,000 can possibly threaten the security of the mighty
United States, is entirely incomprehensible.
-- Maria Paez Victor, "Why is the US So Frightened of Venezuela?" (CounterPunch).