01/04/2026
What Trump and 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. Democrats and Republicans alike have 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.
This pattern spans the globe. The record is documented. This is not conspiracy. It is policy.
Here is a basic list of Black, Caribbean, and African leaders removed or neutralized with U.S. involvement:
Africa
• Patrice Lumumba (DR Congo) assassinated after CIA backed destabilization
• Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana) overthrown in a CIA supported military coup
• Thomas Sankara (Burkina Faso) assassinated in a coup backed by foreign interests aligned with the U.S. and France
• Amílcar Cabral (Guinea Bissau) assassinated amid intelligence interference during the liberation struggle
• Samora Machel (Mozambique) died in a suspicious plane crash during Cold War destabilization
• Muammar Gaddafi (Libya) overthrown and killed following U.S. led NATO intervention
• Nelson Mandela (South Africa) imprisoned with assistance of U.S. intelligence providing information to apartheid authorities
Caribbean
• Maurice Bishop (Grenada) executed during a coup immediately preceding U.S. invasion
• Michael Manley (Jamaica) politically neutralized through U.S. backed economic warfare and covert operations
• Fidel Castro (Cuba) targeted by numerous CIA assassination and overthrow attempts
• Jean Bertrand Aristide (Haiti) democratically elected and removed twice with U.S. involvement
Black America
• Malcolm X assassinated under intense FBI and CIA surveillance
• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated while targeted by COINTELPRO
• Fred Hampton killed in an FBI coordinated police raid
• Huey P. Newton systematically neutralized through COINTELPRO
• Assata Shakur targeted through imprisonment, exile, and permanent state repression
Today, those same white supremacist forces are actively working to undermine the sovereignty of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger. 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. Many Black and Brown elites have defended or benefited from this violence for money, access, and prestige. That truth must be confronted.
Understand this clearly.
The same white supremacist forces destabilizing Venezuela are destabilizing Africa.
The same forces destabilizing Africa are the same forces destabilizing Black communities inside the United States.
Economic sabotage, political repression, surveillance, propaganda, and militarization are connected.
This is one system.
This is one struggle.
And it is all connected.
Their tactics never change. 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?
