I am not surprised that Trump has invaded Venezuela without authorization from Congress, kidnapped its head of state, and killed some of its citizens -- probably to obtain their oil, despite his claim that it's about narcotics. I mean, this is what America does.
If you think the Iraqi war was about "weapons of mass destruction," all I can say is you haven't been paying attention.
Never mind all the heads of state America covertly took down from 1950 through the 1980s, under various pretexts -- stopping communism, or whatever -- when we wanted their oil sold to us how and at the prices we would dictate.
Some have argued that that oil and those actions are why Americans and their children can live in what is essentially paradise. It's the child in the Omelas story! I'd add that the reason we are dragging our feet on climate change is because we are living on all that stolen oil. When it's so cheap to burn oil and coal, green energy sources end up looking too expensive. (Or at least according to oil-company propaganda, they are.)
In any case, no one should be shocked that Trump is doing exactly what America has always done. Good Christians, slaughtering their neighbors to maintain their wealth.
ETA: Scalzi says it better than I do.
ETA: Not just in South America, of course:
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