They won't be getting it from U.S. corporate "news" sources, unfortunately, so it means they will have to be real truth-seekers and read beyond the mass pre-programmed fare.

Also within the article:

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More recently, however, there are disturbing signs that the White House is not as serious about normalizing relations with Venezuela as it is with Cuba.

One of those signs has been recent statements from Secretary of State John Kerry and the State Department calling for “credible and timely electoral observation” for Venezuela’s December elections to the National Assembly. Though the State Department has not explained what is meant by “credible and timely,” the statements closely coincide with a major lobbying effort on the part of the Venezuelan opposition to have the Organization of American States (OAS) send an observation mission. As I noted previously, there were signals in June from the more hard-line right in Washington foreign policy circles that this would be part of an attempt to delegitimize the elections. Now Kerry appears poised to adopt this position, and if he does, it will be correctly seen throughout the region as a very hostile move. To understand this, one has to know the role that the OAS has played in elections where Washington has promoted regime change or has decided for or against a particular candidate.

In 2000, OAS election observers initially approved the results of the presidential and parliamentary elections in Haiti. They then changed their position in response to U.S. pressure. The Haitian and international press used this result to delegitimize the democratically elected government of Haiti. The U.S. and its allies cut off aid to the government, and since Haiti is desperately poor, the combined economic destruction and destabilization efforts succeeded in overthrowing the government in 2004. Thousands of people were killed in a coup and its aftermath, and Haiti remains occupied by United Nations troops.

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The other disturbing sign from the White House is Obama’s appointment of Mark Feierstein to the position of senior director for Western Hemisphere affairs at the National Security Council. Feierstein has a long history of involvement in regime change efforts in Latin America, going back to Nicaragua’s Sandinistas during Ronald Reagan’s and George H.W. Bush’s administrations. He has worked against the Venezuelan government, and as a senior official at USAID, he presided over a major covert operation against the Cuban government that caused great embarrassment when it was exposed by The Associated Press. The latter effort was almost certainly illegal, since U.S. law prohibits USAID from engaging in covert operations. No one in Washington seems to know why Obama appointed a hard-liner like Feierstein to be his main adviser on Latin America, at a time when the White House is working to normalize relations with Cuba.

It is my impression that the government does not have it's shit together, does not have everybody on the same page, and there are "career disputes" involved in Latin American policy, that is various people's careers are tied to various policies in Latin America.

Like the Neocons are tied to the Middle Eastern and Ukraine debacles.

And THAT is why we have these stupid policy disputes, not because any of them care about whether the policy works.

They are all sitting there in their think-tanks fuming and scheming to get back in and fuck things up some more, because it's bound to work sometime, and then everybody will see that they were right all along.

In other words there is a lot of monkey politics in it and not much thinking and planning, really.