The US government has a long history of supporting corrupt, drug-dealing, right-wing oligarchs in Latin America. The Donald Trump administration is threatening to attack Venezuela, accusing leftist President Nicolás Maduro, without any evidence, of leading a cartel, while Marco Rubio defends Colombia's drug-trafficking former leader Álvaro Uribe. Ben Norton documents Washington's imperial hypocrisy.

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0:00 Hypocritical US meddling in Latin America

1:41 Colombia's ex President Álvaro Uribe

4:52 (CLIP) CIA director: "We lie, cheat, steal"

5:09 Drug cartels linked to Colombian leader

6:49 Paramilitaries linked to Colombian leader

9:16 False positives scandal

11:36 Plan Colombia

12:37 Left-wing President Gustavo Petro

14:55 US interventions in Latin America

15:39 Honduran dictator Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH)

16:48 US-backed coup in Honduras in 2009

18:27 US support for dictators

19:41 Drug trafficking in Honduras

22:36 US foreign policy in Latin America

22:59 CIA-backed Nicaraguan Contras

24:09 Trump admin attacks Venezuela (again)

25:50 Outro